Connecticut’s uninsured rate fell to 4.9 percent in 2015, as more residents gained healthcare coverage through private and public health plans, according to new data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Approximately 36 percent of Connecticut residents received health insurance through a public plan in 2015, while 66.9 percent had coverage through a private health plan, according to the latest National Health Interview Survey.
In 2014, 7 percent of Connecticut residents were uninsured and for those who did have coverage 35.9 percent had it through a public plan, while 64.1 percent had it through a private plan.
Nationally, the uninsured rate for all ages fell to 9.1 percent in 2015, making it the first year in U.S history that fewer than 1 in 10 Americans lacked health insurance.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell in written statement credited the Obama Administration’s Affordable Care Act with helping lower the nation’s uninsured rate.
“Today’s report is further proof that our country has made undeniable and historic strides thanks to the Affordable Care Act,” she said. “The uninsured rate fell to 9.1 percent in 2015 … and the report documents the progress we’ve made expanding coverage across the country. Meanwhile, premiums for employer coverage, Medicare spending, and health care prices have risen at exceptionally slow rates. Our country ought to be proud of how far we’ve come and where we’re going.”
