Federal report: Uninsured rate drops 35% under the ACA

About 16.4 million adults have gained health coverage since the passage of ACA, administration officials announced Monday (Source: “Affordable Care Act adds 16.4 million to health insurance rolls,” Washington Post, March 16, 2015).

According to the report, the total includes 14.1 million adults who joined the insurance rolls since October 2013 and 2.3 million younger adults ages 19 to 25 who were able to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans since October 2010, when that provision of the ACA went into effect.

Over that period, the uninsured rate dropped from 20.3 percent to 13.2 percent – a 35 percent (or 7.1 percentage point) reduction in the uninsured rate.