Proportion of population with no health insurance in US reaches a new low at 8%, says Biden's administration
The proportion of the population with no health insurance in the United States has reached a new low in early 2022 at eight percent, President Joe Biden's administration has said.
The Department of Health said on Tuesday that based on a household survey it carried out, 5.2 million people have gained medical insurance since early 2021, when Biden came to office, a figure that includes a million children."No one should worry about whether they can pay for their doctor or choose between paying rent and filing a prescription," Biden said in a statement.The drop in uninsured Americans began last year when Congress and Biden signed off on a $1.
The Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare," came into effect in 2014 and was the flagship law of former President Barack Obama, with whom Biden served as Vice President.Inflation Reduction Act The president attributed the rise in the number of medically insured Americans to improvements contained in the American Rescue Plan, the emergency aid plan adopted at the start of his term that contained measures facilitating access to health insurance through grants to help families pay for medical coverage.
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