Thanks To Obamacare, U.S. Uninsured Rate Hit Record Low In 2016
Noam Levey
February 15, 2017 1:29 pm
WASHINGTON — The nation's uninsured rate tumbled further last year, hitting the lowest rate on record, according to new government data that underscored what is at stake in the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
In the first nine months of 2016, just 8.8 percent of Americans lacked health coverage, survey data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. That was down from 16 percent in 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the health care law, often called Obamacare.
President Donald Trump and GOP congressional leaders have pledged to roll back the law and replace it with something that will provide Americans with more affordable health care options.
On Tuesday, House Republican leaders repeated their pledges. "We will have a stable transition, where no one has the rug pulled out from under them while we work toward a better, more stable system," House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters at the Capitol.
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