The number of uninsured Americans has fallen 15 million since Obamacare’s first enrollment period in late 2013, according to a survey data from the Urban Institute.
The liberal think reports that the percentage of uninsured adults dropped from nearly 18 percent in September 2013 to about 10 percent last month, in a new analysis released Thursday.
The largest drops came from Medicaid expansion. The uninsured rate in those states fell by more than half, while states that didn’t expand Medicaid saw their rate fall by about 30 percent, according to the institute.
As of March 6, 17 states haven’t expanded Medicaid, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Urban Institute used its Health Reform Monitoring Survey to examine the changes in health insurance coverage. The think tank cautioned that not all of the decreases could be attributed to the Affordable Care Act and that changes to the business cycle could have played some part.
The report comes in the wake of other findings of coverage gains since the passage of the healthcare law in 2010. A Gallup poll recently found nearly nine out of 10 American adults reported having health insurance.
The findings are also similar to another Gallup poll that discovered more than 16 million people got health coverage since passage of Obamacare.
