Here are five highlights:
1. Between 2013 and 2014, nearly 9 million Americans obtained coverage.
2. In 2015, 29 million people lacked insurance.
3. States that expanded Medicaid have better improvement in insurance coverage. Sara R. Collins, a vice president at the Commonwealth Fund, said states that expanded Medicaid had “much larger drops in the uninsured rates, particularly between low and moderate income people.
4. Between 2014 and 2015, the insured rate fell 1.3 percent.
5. After the Census Bureau released the figures, a group of White House economic advisors issued a statement saying every state has experienced “declines in its uninsured rate since 2013 as the major coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act have taken effect.”
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