New Commonwealth Fund Health Care Access Scorecard: Uninsured Rate Drops Substantially in Most States and People Are Better Able to Afford Health Care; Gains at Risk If Individual Mandate Repealed, Chip Funding Not Renewed

Forty-seven states saw their adult uninsured rate drop by five percentage points or more in the first three years following the Affordable Care Act’s major health coverage expansions, according to a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard assessing access to health care. New Mexico’s rate dropped the most between 2013 and 2016, from 28 percent to 13 percent. A dozen other states, meanwhile, saw double-digit drops: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and West Virginia.        
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Newsroom - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news