Collins Sara R, Gunja Munira Z, Doty Michelle M, Beutel Sophie
Commonwealth Fund, USA.
Commonwealth Fund, USA
Issue Brief (Commonw Fund). 2017 Jan;5:1-20.
Issue: Since 2001, long before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey has examined health coverage and consumers’ experiences buying insurance and using health care. Goals: To examine long-term trends and to make comparisons before and after passage of health reform. Methods: Analysis of the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2016. Findings and Conclusions: There have been dramatic improvements in people’s ability to buy health plans on their own following the passage of the ACA. For adults with family incomes less than $48,500, uninsured rates dropped about 17 percentage points below their 2010 peak. Lower-income whites, blacks, and Latinos have experienced drops this large, though Latinos are uninsured at higher rates. Among working-age adults who had shopped for plans in the individual market and ACA marketplaces over the prior three years, the percentage who reported it was very difficult to find affordable plans fell by nearly half from 2010, prior to the ACA reforms, to 2016. Coverage gains are helping working-age Americans get the care they need: the number of adults who reported problems getting needed health care and filling prescriptions because of costs fell from a high of 80 million in 2012 to an estimated 63 million in 2016.
自2001年起,远在《平价医疗法案》(ACA)通过之前,联邦基金双年健康保险调查就已对医保覆盖情况以及消费者购买保险和使用医疗服务的经历展开研究。目标:研究长期趋势,并对医疗改革前后的情况进行比较。方法:对2016年联邦基金双年健康保险调查进行分析。研究结果与结论:《平价医疗法案》通过后,人们自行购买健康保险计划的能力有了显著提升。对于家庭收入低于48,500美元的成年人,未参保率比2010年的峰值下降了约17个百分点。低收入的白人、黑人和拉丁裔人群的未参保率也有如此大幅的下降,尽管拉丁裔人群的未参保率仍较高。在过去三年内在个人市场和ACA市场购买过保险计划的适龄成年人中,报告称很难找到负担得起保险计划的比例从2010年(ACA改革前)到2016年下降了近一半。医保覆盖范围的扩大正帮助适龄美国人获得他们所需的医疗服务:报告因费用问题在获取所需医疗服务和配药方面存在困难的成年人数量从2012年的8000万高位降至2016年的约6300万。