{"id":2549,"date":"2012-09-11T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:10:45","slug":"study-obamacare-led-to-record-drop-in-uninsured-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/study-obamacare-led-to-record-drop-in-uninsured-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Obamacare Led To Record Drop In Uninsured Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22.5px; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">According to the National Health Interview Survey, 33.9 percent of people between the ages of 19 and 25 lacked health insurance in 2010. The following year, after the Obamacare provision had taken effect, that number dropped to 27.9 percent. By the CDC\u2019s estimates, that means 1.6 million young people gained coverage between 2010 and 2011, and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/10\/health\/policy\/more-young-adults-have-health-insurance-study-says.html?_r=2&amp;ref=politics\">health policy analysts agree<\/a>the dramatic drop in uninsured young adults during that time span was due to the health reform law:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 10px 50px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; quotes: none; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;\">The estimates are drawn from a federal survey of about 35,000 households. It did not ask how the newly insured obtained coverage, but the study\u2019s author, Matthew Broaddus, a research analyst at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said\u00a0<strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;\">the increased coverage for young people was almost certainly due to a provision in the Obama administration\u2019s Affordable Care Act that allows children to stay on their parents\u2019 insurance policies until their 26th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;\">Joseph Antos, a health care policy expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute,\u00a0<strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;\">agreed that the provision of the new law was the only plausible explanation for the increase.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/09\/10\/818231\/study-obamacare-drop-uninsured-young-adults\/\" target=\"_blank\">STUDY: Obamacare Led To Record Drop In Uninsured Young Adults | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Health Interview Survey, 33.9 percent of people between the ages of 19 and 25 lacked health insurance in 2010. The following year, after the Obamacare provision had taken effect, that number dropped to 27.9 percent. By the CDC\u2019s estimates, that means 1.6 million young people gained coverage between 2010 and 2011,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[639,206,1452,672,686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}