More Americans have health insurance versus 2010 (thanks Obama)

[Omaha Steve]

By Alex Tanzi / Bloomberg 7 hrs ago

Fewer Americans lack health insurance.

In the first six months of 2018, 28.5 million Americans were uninsured — 20.1 million fewer than 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by then-President Barack Obama, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Among U.S. adults aged 18-64, about seven in 10 were covered by private health insurance plans in the first six months of 2018. Of this total, four percent or just under eight million people were covered by private health insurance plans obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace or state-based exchanges.

The distribution of coverage, however, is uneven, as shown in the data for states that expanded Medicaid coverage compared to those that did not.

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