HCM340 Lecture Notes - Kaiser Family Foundation, Coronavirus
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My name is alexis and i am from new york! The article i chose is titled "key facts about the uninsured. I chose this article because i have recently had an interest in understanding why and how coronavirus has caused a lot of the population to become uninsured. Some people were uninsured before covid, however, some people have become uninsured during covid. The article says that the aca (affordable care act) was extending medicaid to low-income families to allow them to have insurance during the coronavirus. The article states, " as a result, after increasing for three straight years from 2017 to 2019, the number of nonelderly uninsured individuals dropped by nearly 1. 5 million from 28. 9 million in. 2019 to 27. 5 million in 2021, and the uninsured rate decreased from 10. 9% in 2019 to 10. 2% in 2021". The number of uninsured people dropped significantly from 2019-2021. This is likely because medicaid was being extended to those low-income families.