In 2019, 9.2 percent of Americans, or 29.6 million, didn't have health insurance. That's down from 15.5 percent in 2010, before many provisions of the ACA took effect.
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A million more people likely went without health insurance in 2019 than the year before, according to a new report from the Census Bureau.
Caregivers who tend to family members without compensation have poorer health outcomes, according to new findings from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Almost 600,000 healthcare workers are uninsured, with workers in Texas having the largest uninsured rate, according to an analysis from ValuePenguin, a LendingTree company.
Many consumers are unaware of the extent to which health insurers can collect lifestyle or behavior data generated by purchasing, membership or online activity, according to a MITRE-Harris poll.
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Patients in central Appalachia, the epicenter of the opioid epidemic, face barriers in accessing treatments for opioid use disorder, according to a study published Aug. 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Most Americans could not accurately distinguish opioids from other types of medications in a recent survey conducted by health IT company DrFirst, a finding that is particularly problematic as the opioid crisis continues to be exacerbated by the pandemic.
Pregnant women experience particular difficulty accessing opioid use disorder treatments, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
America's uninsured population has fluctuated as the COVID-19 pandemic caused many to lose health insurance due to layoffs and furloughs.
IBM Watson Health partnered with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Bloomberg American Health Initiative and Center for Health Equality to reduce disparities in healthcare and encourage hospitals to focus more on equity when assessing performance, according to Fortune.