More Connecticut residents had health insurance last year than they did the year before, the U.S. Census Bureau said.
The number of people in the state who were uninsured last year fell 2.5 percent, to 245,000, down from 333,000 in 2013, according to Census Bureau data.
That means that 6.9 percent of the state’s population is uninsured, down from 9.4 percent in 2013.
Connecticut was among six states with an uninsured rate at or below 7 percent. Massachusetts, which passed an Obamacare-like reform law in 2006, had the lowest uninsured rate last year, at 3.3 percent.
The Census Bureau’s calculation includes both private insurance and government insurance, such as Medicaid.
The agency said that states that expanded their Medicaid programs in 2014 as a result of the Affordable Care Act, as Connecticut did, tended to have lower uninsured rates.
