{"id":23329,"date":"2024-09-11T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23329"},"modified":"2024-09-11T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:19:28","slug":"us-uninsured-rate-was-stable-in-2023-even-as-states-medicaid-purge-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23329","title":{"rendered":"US Uninsured Rate Was Stable in 2023, Even as States\u2019 Medicaid Purge Began"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, close to the record low the Biden administration achieved in 2022 through expansions of public programs, including the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 8% of Americans were uninsured, a statistically insignificant increase of just 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier. But because of the Census survey\u2019s methodology, the findings likely don\u2019t capture the experience of tens of millions of Americans purged from Medicaid rolls after pandemic-era protections expired in spring 2023.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/uninsured-rate-stable-2023-medicaid-unwinding-census\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/uninsured-rate-stable-2023-medicaid-unwinding-census\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News) The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,200,16,47],"tags":[97,385,238,67,233],"class_list":["post-23329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-medicaid","category-uninsuredunderinsured","tag-aca","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-uninsured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23330,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions\/23330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}