Uninsured rate continues to fall

September 28, 2015 by Mark Baumgartner and Chain Drug Review Affordable Care Act, American Community Survey, Census Bureau, health insurance coverage, Medicaid 2015, Issue 09-28-2015, Issues, News

WASHINGTON — Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) hailed a recent Census Bureau report that the percentage of people without health insurance coverage declined by 2.9 percentage points last year, from 13.3% to 10.4%. That’s a reduction of 8.8 million people, the biggest one-year decline ever, and part of the reason