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Health coverage for women under the Affordable Care Act
Health coverage for women under the Affordable Care Act
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- ASPE issue brief
- Author(s):
- Sugar, Sarah, author
Ruhter, Joel, author
Gordon, Sarah, author
Whitman, Amelia, author
Peters, Christie, author
De Lew, Nancy, author
Sommers, Benjamin D., author - Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, March 21, 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data
Insurance Coverage -- trends
Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data
Women
United States
United States. - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Coverage expansions under the ACA decreased uninsured rates and improved stability of health coverage for women. Over 10 million adult women (19-64) gained coverage between 2010 and 2019, as did over 7 million women of reproductive age (15-44). The ACA’s coverage expansions have been associated with improved access to care, increased use of health services, and better self-reported health among women of reproductive age. Despite the ACA’s coverage gains, approximately 7.9 million women of reproductive age remain uninsured. A disproportionate share of uninsured women are Latino (40 percent), and nearly half reside in the 12 states that have not adopted the ACA Medicaid expansion (47 percent). Nearly 1.9 million uninsured adult women (19-64) who live in Medicaid non-expansion states would be newly eligible for Medicaid if the remaining 12 states adopted the Medicaid expansion. Among women of reproductive age, an estimated 3.8 million have incomes at or below 138% FPL, the ACA Medicaid expansion income eligibility limit. Over half of them--1.9 million--live in Medicaid non-expansion states and could fall in the coverage gap. An estimated 4.1 million uninsured women of reproductive age are eligible for subsidized Marketplace coverage under the tax credit provisions of the American Rescue Plan.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918539787706676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918539787706676