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Census Bureau to release uninsured report Sept. 13

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Census Bureau to release uninsured report Sept. 13

The U.S. Census Bureau in mid-September will release its annual report on the number of people in the United States without health insurance, with much attention expected to be on how much coverage has expanded due to the health care reform law.

The report showing the 2015 coverage rate will be released Sept. 13.

The 2014 report, released last year, found, as expected, a big drop in the uninsured rate. In 2014, 33 million people lacked coverage, down 8.8 million from the 41.8 million without coverage in 2013.

Similarly, the percentage of the population who were uninsured dropped in 2014 to 10.4%, down from 13.3% in 2013.

Those big and unprecedented drops were not unexpected. That is because two key coverage provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014: the opening of public ACA exchanges that offer premium subsidies to the lower-income uninsured — those earning between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level; and the lowering of Medicaid eligibility requirements in states that chose to do so.

The upcoming Census Bureau report is expected to show another decrease in the uninsured rate for 2015, experts say, but not quite as big a decrease compared to 2014.

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