Also, children’s private coverage increases for first time in 15 years.
By Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today
08.12.2015 – The number of uninsured adults decreased by more than 3 percentage points in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the CDC.
In the first 3 months of 2015, the percentage of adults ages 18-64 without insurance stood at 13%, down from 16.3% in 2014, wrote Robin Cohen, PhD, and Michael Martinez, MPH, both from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, in Hyattsville, Md. The number of uninsured people of any age also dropped, from 36 million in 2014 to 29 million in 2015.
