Mar 052016
Under the Affordable Care Act, 20 million Americans who were previously uninsured gained health insurance coverage, according to the latest figures from the federal Department of Health and Human Services. President Obama made the announcement when speaking in Milwaukee this week.
This number is a new high for the ACA, and is well above the previous estimate of 17.6 million previously uninsured Americans who gained coverage under the ACA as of September 2015. For more on this news, see the Covering Health blog of the Association of Health Care Journalists.