From STAT:
The national uninsured rate rose from 7.7% to 8.2% earlier this year, a result of states booting millions of Americans from their state Medicaid programs, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 7.7% uninsured rate in 2023 was a record low at the time, but didn’t factor in any of the people who were losing their Medicaid coverage.
Overall, more than 27 million people had no form of health insurance as of March 2024, compared with more than 25 million people at the same time in 2023, the CDC reported Tuesday. The data come from the CDC’s quarterly National Health Interview Survey. More than 1 million working-age adults entered the ranks of the uninsured, while 700,000 kids younger than 18 also lost their coverage.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, states were not allowed to remove people from their Medicaid programs, which provide health coverage to low-income adults and children. But those protections ended in April 2023, allowing states to re-evaluate whether people were still eligible based on their income.
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