The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: OfTheCross on September 10, 2019, 05:52:25 pm
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The Census found that 8.5% of the U.S. population went without medical insurance for all of 2018, up from 7.9% in 2017. By contrast, in 2013, before the Affordable Care Act took full effect, 13.3% were uninsured. It was the first year-to-year increase since 2008-09, Census officials said.
more (https://khn.org/news/number-of-americans-without-insurance-rises-in-2018/)
And next year the number of uninsured is supposed to rise even higher. Time will tell how DC politicians react to it. This is going to be an issue in the General Election