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May 17, 2017

9% in U.S. uninsured, same rate as in 2015

  • When former President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the uninsured rate had been 16 percent.
    • By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Five years of progress reducing the number of Americans without health insurance has come to a halt, according to a government report out Tuesday. More than a factoid, it shows the stakes in the Republican drive to roll back the Affordable Care Act.

    The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 28.6 million people were uninsured in 2016, unchanged from 2015. It was the first year since passage of the health care overhaul in 2010 that the number of uninsured did not budge.


     
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