The Affordable Care Act has significantly reduced racial disparities in healthcare access, report
Source: CBS News
The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 by former President Barack Obama, has expanded health insurance coverage across the U.S. and significantly reduced racial and ethnic disparities in access to healthcare, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund.
"Since its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has helped cut the U.S. uninsured rate nearly in half while significantly reducing racial and ethnic disparities in both insurance coverage and access to care particularly in states that expanded their Medicaid programs," reads the report.
Data shows that prior to the 2013 implementation of the Medicaid expansion a provision of the ACA that made more families eligible for Medicaid coverage 40.2% of the Hispanic population, 24.4% of the Black population, and 14.5% of the White population were uninsured in America. However, by 2021, those numbers dropped significantly to 24.5%, 13.5%, and 8.2%, respectively.
With more than five million people gaining coverage between 2020 and 2022 over the course of the pandemic, the overall uninsured rate in the U.S. dropped to just 8%, a historic low, according to the report.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/affordable-care-act-obamacare-reduced-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-healthcare/
Skittles
(153,243 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)IronLionZion
(45,581 posts)but I hope at this point there are too many people benefiting from it for that to work.
aggiesal
(8,940 posts)we can have this.
whathehell
(29,100 posts)across the board, and I think that was the original intention.
calimary
(81,550 posts)What have you got against helping people in need?
What have you got against helping people - PERIOD?
twodogsbarking
(9,856 posts)100 resolutions to repeal, deauthorize, defund, or otherwise destroy the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Obama, the man.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)I'm not going to get over that BS claim ...
republianmushroom
(13,767 posts)IbogaProject
(2,848 posts)But this has left the basic for profit health insurance system in place. We need single payer for all. We need to take the strain off our Emergency Rooms. And second having all health outcomes on one list will help greatly in finding true improvements in care and get out of having just ok or bad stuff getting a foothold in medical care.
treestar
(82,383 posts)in this country, the ACA was a major step forward.