{"id":7637,"date":"2024-06-18T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2024-06-21T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:38:26","slug":"u-s-uninsured-rate-drops-by-26-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/06\/18\/7637\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops by 26% Since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/06\/24-350053-SMG-ER-HeatlhIns-2019-2023.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7638\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/06\/24-350053-SMG-ER-HeatlhIns-2019-2023.png\" alt=\"A line graph showing the declining trend for uninsured adults aged 18\u201364 from 2019 through 2022.\" width=\"363\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>The overall number of Americans without health insurance dropped by 8.2 million from 2019 to 2023. These findings are included in a new report by the CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).<\/p>\n<p>The findings are featured in the report, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/insur202406.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2023<\/a>.\u201d It shows that among working-age Americans (those ages 18\u201364), 10.9% did not have health insurance in 2023, a decrease from 14.7% in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights from the report include<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"false\">\n<li>7.6% or 25.0 million Americans of all ages did not have health insurance in 2023 compared to 10.3% or 33.2 million in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>In 2023, 3.9% or 2.8 million children did not have health insurance compared with 5.1% or 3.7 million in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Almost two-thirds (64.4%) of people younger than 65 were covered by private health insurance and more than a quarter (28.6%) were covered by public health insurance in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Among White, non-Hispanic adults ages 18\u201364, the percentage who were uninsured decreased by 35% from 10.5% in 2019 to 6.8% in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>In 2023, almost 1 in 4 Hispanic adults ages 18\u201364 (24.8%) lacked health insurance, a greater percentage than Black, non-Hispanic adults (10.4%), White, non-Hispanic adults (6.8%) and Asian, non-Hispanic adults (4.4%).<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of Americans younger than 65 with exchange-based private health insurance increased from 3.7% in 2019 to 4.8% in 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to changes in various methodological aspects of the NHIS, this report only presents trends starting with 2019.\u00a0 Direct comparisons between estimates prior to 2019 should be made with caution.<\/p>\n<p>The report is available on the NCHS web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\">www.cdc.gov\/nchs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall number of Americans without health insurance dropped by 8.2 million from 2019 to 2023. These findings are included in a new report by the CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The findings are featured in the report, \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2023.\u201d It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59509,63793],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}