Women’s Health Insurance Coverage

(Source – Kaiser Family Foundation)

Health insurance coverage is a critical factor in making health care affordable and accessible to women.  Among the 97.5 million women ages 19 to 64 residing in the U.S., most had some form of coverage in 2014. However, gaps in private sector and publicly-funded programs left almost one in eight women uninsured.  One of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) primary goals was to expand access to insurance coverage to reduce the number of uninsured. The law requires that nearly everyone carry health insurance, and expands access to coverage through a combination of Medicaid expansions, private insurance reforms, and premium tax credits. This factsheet reviews major sources of coverage for women residing in the U.S. in 2014, the first full year of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) major coverage expansion, and discusses the likely changes and impact of the law on women’s coverage in future years. Read more…

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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