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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"New Data Reveals Young Americans Continue to Benefit from the ACA"
New Data Reveals Young Americans Continue to Benefit from the ACAhttp://younginvincibles.org/2013/09/new-data-reveals-young-americans-continue-to-benefit-from-the-aca/
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Numbers Come Two Weeks Before Open Enrollment, When Up to 7.4 Million Young Adults Will Qualify for Free or Discounted Coverage
[WASHINGTON] Over 1.3 million more young adults (ages 19 to 25) have health insurance since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010. According to the new report, since 2009, the uninusrance rate for that age group dropped from 31.4% to 27.2%. Despite the gains, 8.2 million young people still do not have health insurance. Starting October 1, nearly 3.5 million of these young people could be eligible Medicaid coverage if all states agreed to expand their programs, and nearly 4.0 million will be eligible for premium tax credits.
The new data comes from the U.S. Census Bureaus Current Population Surveys (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement. The questions were asked in March 2013 about respondents status in 2012. Previous data from the National Health Interview Survey found an even more robust estimate of the number of young adults that have gained coverage after the Affordable Care Acts passage.
We are encouraged by this new data as it reveals that the Affordable Care Act is working for young Americans, but we know that there is still a lot of work to be done to make sure that every young adult has quality, affordable health coverage, said Rory OSullivan, Policy and Research Director at Young Invincibles. As we head towards open enrollment, educating the up to 7.4 million young adults that could be eligible for free or reduced-cost coverage is critical to reducing young adult uninsurance rates.
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"New Data Reveals Young Americans Continue to Benefit from the ACA" (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2013
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(37,305 posts)1. Too bad they didn't make "kids" eligible on their parents plans til 65. Hahaha.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)2. Yes. Some day....
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