Matt Broaddus
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Medicaid Enrollment Still Rising
Medicaid enrollment rose 10.9 percent from February to September in the 36 states for which we have data, as millions lost their jobs or suffered sharp income losses due to the COVID-19 recession. If we extrapolate these increases nationwide, it would mean about 7 million more people enrolled in Medicaid — and likely more, given continued increases in October in states with available data. → Read More
Medicaid Enrollment Continues to Rise
Medicaid enrollment rose 8.4 percent from February to July as millions of Americans lost their jobs or experienced sharp income losses due to the COVID-19 recession. That’s in the 30 states for which we have data, which if we extrapolate nationwide would mean about 6 million more people enrolled in Medicaid — and likely more, given continued increases in August in states with available data. → Read More
Census: Health Coverage Progress Eroded in 2018
The share of Americans without health insurance rose from 7.9 percent in 2017 to 8.5 percent in 2018, the Census Bureau’s new Current Population Survey (CPS) data show — the first increase since the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) drove historic coverage gains, particularly after its major coverage expansions took effect in 2014. → Read More
On Its Anniversary, a Look at How Medicaid Helps People in Every State
Today is the 54th anniversary of the enactment of Medicaid, a program that helps millions of families and individuals across the country, as our state-by-state fact sheets show. Medicaid helps low-income seniors, children, people with disabilities, and families get needed health care. Medicaid coverage improves families’ financial security by protecting them from medical debt → Read More
Medicaid Works for Low-Income Families and Individuals in Your State
We’ve updated our state-by-state fact sheets showing how Medicaid helps millions of families and individuals across the country. → Read More
Census: Health Coverage Progress Stalled
The share of Americans without health insurance remained at a historic low in 2017 and unchanged from 2016, the Census Bureau’s new Current Population Survey (CPS) data show. The year 2017 marked the fourth full year of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) major coverage expansions, but the first of them that didn’t show large coverage gains. → Read More
Census: States Not Expanding Medicaid Lagging on Health Coverage
States that have adopted the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion had a much lower uninsured rate in 2017 than states that haven’t, and the gap continues to widen, new Census data show. → Read More
Many Working People Could Lose Health Coverage Due to Medicaid Work Requirements
Medicaid work requirements will almost certainly cause many low-income adults to lose health coverage. Less understood, many working people also will likely lose coverage due to work requirements. → Read More
On ACA’s Birthday, 5 Charts Highlight Key Accomplishments
The United States has made historic progress in expanding health coverage since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010, as highlighted by the charts below (based on the latest available data). Uninsured rates have fallen dramatically across demographic groups; people receiving coverage through the ACA’s Medicaid expansion have better access to health… → Read More
Health Insurance Coverage Reduces Number of People in Poverty
Health insurance coverage reduced the poverty rate by nearly one-quarter in 2014, according to a new analysis in Health Affairs that factors the premium costs and benefits of health insurance into the poverty rate. That equates to lifting more than 14.4 million people out of poverty. → Read More
Share and Number of People Without Health Insurance Fall to Historic Low
The share of Americans without health insurance fell to an historic low in 2016, the Census Bureau’s new Current Population Survey (CPS) data show. In 2016, the third full year that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) major coverage expansions were implemented, the large coverage gains that the ACA has generated continued to grow. Some 8.8 percent of people lacked insurance in 2016, down from its… → Read More
Cassidy-Graham Would Deeply Cut and Drastically Redistribute Health Coverage Funding Among States
Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham are reportedly working with the White House to push their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[1] The Cassidy-Graham plan (which Senator Dean Heller has also co-sponsored) would have much the same damaging consequences as other Senate and House Republican repeal and replace bills. → Read More
Senate Bill Would Effectively Eliminate Medicaid Expansion by Shifting Hundreds of Billions in Expansion Costs to States
Like the House bill, the Senate health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled June 22[1] would effectively eliminate the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion in 31 states and the District of Columbia, leaving millions of low-income adults uninsured. Specifically, it would phase down federal funding for all expansion enrollees — not just new enrollees, as in the… → Read More
Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion Benefits Hospitals, Particularly in Rural America
Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid coverage to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), particularly those in rural areas, have fared significantly better than hospitals in non-expansion states, based on recent published and unpublished research by the Urban Institute.[1] Since 2013, uncompensated care costs have fallen by 1.7 percentage points more, and Medicaid revenue as… → Read More
African American Uninsured Rate Dropped by More Than a Third Under Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expansion of Medicaid and reforms to the individual insurance market, including subsidized coverage for people with incomes up to four times the poverty line, have helped to lower the uninsured rate for nonelderly African Americans by more than one-third between 2013 and 2016, from 18.9 percent to 11.7 percent. → Read More
Population’s Aging Would Deepen House Health Bill’s Medicaid Cuts for States
Due to the proposal in the House Republican health bill to convert Medicaid to a per capita cap or block grant, the aging of baby boomers would likely exacerbate the federal Medicaid spending cuts over the long run. → Read More
Historic Coverage Gains Under the Affordable Care Act
Even as Republican congressional leaders plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), our new paper shows that all groups in the nation have made historic gains in health coverage since the ACA’s major coverage expansions took effect in 2014. Here are the main takeaways: → Read More
Affordable Care Act Has Produced Historic Gains in Health Coverage
The uninsured rate fell from 13.3 percent to 9.1 percent between 2013 and 2015, while the number of uninsured fell from 41.8 million to 29.0 million. → Read More
Census Data Show Large Health Coverage Gains Continued in 2015
The historic gains in health insurance coverage in 2014 — when the Affordable Care Act’s major coverage expansions took effect — continued in 2015. → Read More
Census Data Show States Not Expanding Medicaid Falling Further Behind
States that have adopted health reform’s Medicaid expansion had a much lower uninsured rate in 2015 than states that haven’t, new Census Bureau data show. Moreover, the gap keeps widening. Some 7.2 percent of the people in the 28 states (including the District of Columbia) that expanded Medicaid by January 2015 lacked health insurance that year, compared with 12.3 percent in the 23 non-expansion… → Read More