Insurance gains under ACA starting to erode

A new survey from the Commonwealth Fund finds that the gains in insurance coverage from the Affordable Care Act are starting to erode. The uninsured rate among working-age people, between the ages of 19 and 64, stands at 15.5 percent nationwide, up from 12.7 percent in 2016, translating to about 4 million people losing coverage, according to the Commonwealth Fund ACA Tracking Survey. The drivers of the coverage declines are two- fold, Commonwealth researchers found: The lack of federal legislative…
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