How the ACA Reversed Two Decades of Declining Coverage for the Working Poor
by Andrew Sprung
I've noted before that while the ACA works best for uninsured people with incomes under 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL),* that's also where the uninsured are concentrated. While just about exactly one third of the U.S. population is below 200% FPL, 55% of the uninsured were below that level in 2013, according to the Census Bureau's Census' Current Population Survey 2015 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.**
A Health Affairs article by Nicole Huberfeld and Jessica Roberts spotlights one reason for the concentration of the uninsured at low income levels. While the availability (or affordability) of employer-sponsored insurance has dropped for all income levels since early this century,
The decreases in coverage were measurably greater for middle- to low-income workers; for example, those earning more than 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) experienced a 2.8 percent drop in employer-sponsored coverage from 2000 to 2011, but people earning less than 200 percent of the FPL experienced a 10.1 percent drop in employer-sponsored coverage.
- See more at: http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2016/02/plugging-employer-sponsored-insurance.html?m=#sthash.hmQJ0AKd.dpuf
by Andrew Sprung
I've noted before that while the ACA works best for uninsured people with incomes under 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL),* that's also where the uninsured are concentrated. While just about exactly one third of the U.S. population is below 200% FPL, 55% of the uninsured were below that level in 2013, according to the Census Bureau's Census' Current Population Survey 2015 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.**
A Health Affairs article by Nicole Huberfeld and Jessica Roberts spotlights one reason for the concentration of the uninsured at low income levels. While the availability (or affordability) of employer-sponsored insurance has dropped for all income levels since early this century,
The decreases in coverage were measurably greater for middle- to low-income workers; for example, those earning more than 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) experienced a 2.8 percent drop in employer-sponsored coverage from 2000 to 2011, but people earning less than 200 percent of the FPL experienced a 10.1 percent drop in employer-sponsored coverage.
- See more at: http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2016/02/plugging-employer-sponsored-insurance.html?m=#sthash.hmQJ0AKd.dpuf
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