Healthcare

Uninsured rate falls to historically low level

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Published September 7, 2016 2:22pm ET
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Uninsured rate falls to historically low level
Under the law's Medicaid expansion and marketplaces where federal subsidies are available, an estimated 20 million people have gotten health coverage, many of them for the first time. (iStock photo) | didesign021

The U.S. uninsured rate has dipped below 9 percent for the first time ever, several years into President Obama’s healthcare law that extended health coverage to millions of Americans.

The data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a bright spot of news for the Obama administration, which has lately been doing damage control thanks to insurers hiking rates in the insurance marketplaces or withdrawing due to heavy losses.

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