According to preliminary estimates released by the CDC’s National Center of Health Statistics on Tuesday, the number of people without health insurance will drop to 31.6 million, or 9.7% of the population, in the year 2020. In 2019, 33.2 million, or 10.3%, were uninsured.
People were considered uninsured in the study if they did not participate in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, had no private health insurance, were not on a Medicare or Medicaid plan, or had no state, government, or military plan. If they only had a private plan that paid for one kind of service, like dental care or accidents, they were also considered uninsured.
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13.9% of adults aged 18 to 64 lacked insurance. Private health insurance was available to more than two thirds of this age group, while public coverage was available to 20.5%.
5.1% of children under the age of 17 did not have health insurance.
From 96% in 2019, the proportion of adults over 65 who have public insurance decreased slightly to 95.9%. In 2020, 67.5% of adults between the ages of 18 and 64 were likely to have private insurance, up from 66.8% the previous year. In 2020, only 3.8% of people under the age of 65 had exchange-based coverage.
According to the CDC, the results still require final data editing. Preliminary and final figures typically differed by less than 0.1 percentage point in previous years. The Covid-19 pandemic, on the other hand, caused procedures to be altered for the 2020 data as well.
