Shots Health News – Nearly 24 million Americans are buying their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act — and there’s still a week to go for open enrollment sign-ups.
“We’ve once again set a new all-time record for marketplace enrollment,” Neera Tanden, domestic policy adviser to President Biden, said on a press call Tuesday.
“In fact, every year of the Biden-Harris administration, we’ve set a new all-time record for ACA marketplace enrollment.”
As ACA sign ups start, more Americans have health insurance than ever. Will it last?
That 24 million is about double the number of people enrolled when President Biden took office four years ago, Tanden noted.
After years of turmoil for the Affordable Care Act during the first Trump administration, Biden reversed course with new investments in the marketplaces, and enrollment numbers have shot up.
The Republican Study Committee’s 2025 fiscal budget says the subsidies “only perpetuate a never-ending cycle of rising premiums and federal bailouts — with taxpayers forced to foot the bill.”
“Today, more than 300 million Americans have health coverage — that’s a record number,” Health Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters on the same press call. According to the latest report from the U.S. Census, 92% of Americans have health insurance.
Enrollment is still open until Jan. 15 (in all states except Idaho) for coverage that starts Feb. 1.
Most Americans get their insurance through their jobs or through a public program like Medicaid or Medicare, but ACA health insurance still has a big impact on the overall percentage of people insured.
As enrollment in the marketplaces set records in the last few years, the number of uninsured Americans dropped dramatically.
This may well be the high watermark for enrollment in these health plans …
