The number of people in the USA without health insurance dropped by nearly 9 million from 2013-2014, the Census Bureau reported.
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New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau today provide more support that the Affordable Care Act is working.
California was one of 12 states that saw a decline in the percentage of people living in poverty in 2014. The percent of Americans in poverty without health insurance dropped by 9.3% in states that expanded Medicaid and only by 4.8% among impoverished Americans in states that did not expand Medicaid.
Overall poverty in region was 16.5 percent, close to the state and national average.
With the flatness of the past five years, Connecticut’s median household income has still not recovered from its pre-recession levels, when adjusted for inflation.
The big increase seen a year ago in the numbers of those with health insurance may be results of several factors, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The number of people without health insurance fell to 8.4 percent past year , down from 11 percent in 2013.
Nationally, the numbers of same-sex households grew 22 percent in two years to 783,000, according to the survey.
Massachusetts had the lowest percentage of uninsured residents, at 3.3.
Brooks said the political debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act, widely known as “Obamacare”, obscures the “reality” that more children and adults are getting healthier because they are covered.
“Families were able to get back to work, and that may have been a large factor in reducing the number of families and children in poverty in La Crosse County”, said Jones.
Even with Iowa’s relatively low uninsured rate, Damiano said it could improve with more aggressive marketing of the online marketplace in Iowa, the only place where federal subsidies are available to purchase private insurance. This implied that almost 91% residents in the state are now under the health insurance cover.
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Data from the report came from Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements and were collected in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Alaska, on the other hand, which had the third-highest median income, was the only state in the nation where the poverty rate actually increased.
