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Unwinding Watch: Tracking Medicaid Coverage as Pandemic Protections End

May 3, 2024

Our “Unwinding Watch” highlights key developments as states resume determinations on people’s Medicaid eligibility. Previously, the pandemic-related “continuous coverage” requirement safeguarded this coverage for millions of people.

Accurately Evaluating Marketplace Enrollment

December 8, 2020

Statement

In Pandemic’s Second Year, Government Policies Helped Drive Child Poverty Rate to a Record Low, Cut Uninsured Rate, New Census Data Show

September 13, 2022

Chart Book

Chart Book: Accomplishments of Affordable Care Act

March 19, 2019

Blog

Record Numbers of People Chose ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2024

January 25, 2024 | Jennifer Sullivan

Blog

6 Months Into Georgia Pathways Program, Over 400,000 People Still Lack Health Coverage; Expanding Medicaid Would Improve Access for Low-Income Georgians

January 25, 2024 | Laura Harker

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Report

Entering Their Second Decade, Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions Have Helped Millions, Provide the Basis for Further Progress

March 25, 2024

Blog

Women Face Large Coverage Losses, Especially in Non-Expansion States, if Enhanced Premium Assistance Expires

July 15, 2022

Report

Health Premiums Will Rise Steeply for Millions if Rescue Plan Tax Credits Expire

May 26, 2022

Report

Marketplaces Poised for Further Gains as Open Enrollment Begins

October 29, 2021

Report

Administration Should Act to Expand and Improve Health Coverage

January 15, 2021

Blog

Health Insurance Coverage Losses Since 2016 Widespread

October 22, 2020

Policy Basics

We track health insurance coverage trends, and we work with federal and state policymakers and private advocates to expand coverage, especially for people with low and moderate incomes.

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Experts

Gideon Lukens

Greenstein: Health Coverage Progress Stalls — Even as Economy Reduces Poverty, Boosts Income

The stagnation in health coverage likely reflects, at least in part, Trump Administration actions throughout 2017 to place obstacles in the way of successful ACA...

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...

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...

Don’t Undermine Economic Progress of 2016

The economy has fueled income gains across the states, yet Congress is considering proposals that would undermine them. As we reported Tuesday, incomes rose nationally more from 2014 to 2016 than in...

Census Data Show Robust Progress Across the Board in 2016 in Income, Poverty, and Health Coverage

Two consecutive years of progress on all three measures Is...

Census Data: States Not Expanding Medicaid Lag Further on Health Coverage

States that have adopted the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion had a much lower uninsured rate in 2016 than states that haven’t, and the gap continues to widen, new Census data...

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...

Greenstein: Census Data Show Largest Two-Year Income Gain in Five Decades, Progress Against Poverty in 2016

Today’s Census data bring good news on income, poverty, and health...

Sabotage Watch: Tracking Efforts to Undermine the ACA

Medicaid Expansion States Made Largest Veterans’ Health Coverage Gains

Uninsurance among non-elderly veterans fell from 9.6 percent in 2013 to 5.9 percent in 2015 as the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect, a new Urban Institute report...

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