Michigan has realized substantial increases in families living with basic health insurance coverage since Obamacare took effect in 2013, according to a new report from the Census Bureau.
Michigan ranks eighth among all states, with just a 6.1 percent rate of uninsured overall.
Based on statistics through 2017, the Census Bureau found that nearly every Michigan county now enjoys an uninsured rate of less than 10 percent, though the numbers are much better in the populated regions of the state than in the rural areas of the Upper Peninsula and the Up North area.
In southeast Michigan, the results are dramatic, with reductions of more than half becoming commonplace. In Wayne County the rate of uninsured people plummeted from 15.8 to 6.8 percent. In neighboring Oakland County, the trend shaped up as a decline from 10.7 to 4.9 percent. And in Macomb County, the effects of Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act) saw the number of households without insurance coverage drop from 12.5 to 6.4 percent.
Livingston County had the lowest rate of uninsured people in the state, with just 4.1 percent of the populace without health insurance coverage, down more than 50 percent from 8.9 percent in 2013.
In contrast, Mackinac County served as an outlier with the highest percentage of Michigan residents without any health insurance at 11.5 percent. But even that was a significant improvement over 2013 when 20 percent of the county’s population lacked coverage.
The Michigan results were repeated across the nation, with the majority of states, like Michigan, that engaged in the federally funded expansion of Medicaid eligibility posting the best results.
Massachusetts, which established an Obamacare-style insurance marketplace many years ago, had the lowest overall percentage of uninsured residents at 3.3 percent in 2017 and that was down from 4.3 percent in 2013.
Texas had the highest percentage of residents without coverage at 19.4 percent. That was down from 24.8 percent in 2013. But Texas was also home to Gaines County which had the largest percentage of people without health insurance in the nation at 33.7 percent in 2017. That was just 0.5 percentage points lower than in 2013.
Overall, more than one-third of all counties in the U.S. reported uninsured rates below 10% in 2017, after the tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for low-income families kicked in.
Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Kentucky and West Virginia had the lowest uninsured rates, county-by-county.
Texas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Wyoming all had numerous counties that exceeded the level of 10 percent uninsured.
The Census Bureau reports that the year before the ACA took effect, only 130 U.S. counties of more than 3,000 had uninsurance rates below 10 percent. The newest stats show that more than 38 percent of all counties nationwide have estimated uninsured rates below 10 percent.
I’m not quite sure where to begin? I think the best is knowing I’m an American of the United States. I discovered through pain and suffering how passionate I am about forensic analysis with electrical engineering machine control used in manufacturing . I understand how to apply that and I have principles and ethics. Anything I do for design is backed by a professional engineer. I’m sure a few of you are WHAT?? Hey You ! This medical!! Well, design of systems is how I have coped thru terrible pain. Biliond and Billions of Medicare and Medicaid Fraud certainly is not helping the state . I don’t have heat. Not for over a year. I lost everything. When people don’t do anything to help when asked a specially for relatives and friends? What do you expect. I’m cranky because I only shared info with certain people yesterday. I’m hogtied in Missouri. You guys are spoiled rotten in comparison. You don’t know what you have until you don’t have it. I’m cranky because I have too much burden and I’m ill ear infection .Malcontent McPleasey stop making me queezy has not done his duty to serve. He may have done me a favor when he didn’t intend it. Today I finally have someone in Missouri to take care of something Malcontent’s Older brother did not years go, like 2013. All his brother had to do was hand it over to someone he did fleet business in the media. All the way to 2015. Someone we both know was so incompetent I had to demean myself so no harm came to me because he chocked. I had to dig out something in the federal Medicaid website. Aha! Everybody who saw my letter from the prior attorney General’s office confirming Medicare & blue cross blue shield. Lied thru their teeth about Medicaid. This is attached to Dr. Farid Fata. Imagine if you had to make someone try to get your defrauded & misspent estate trust before the government does siezure. The broad, my stepsister co trustee is Execitive Director of Munson Oncology. Too many people calling each other names. Probably because you got something to hide. Thank God I could the print out to someone. His knew this too. What I turned over. Is the worst betrayal. My heart where the most important wisdom lies thinks the Cathedral in Paris burned down to the ground in shame . It could have been caught a long time ago. My hacked account today allowed another problem worse than Flint Lead to flow where it needs with the entire list of problem children because they all know each other loosly. That brings in child pornography , non custodial parental kidnapping, sexual assaults on the Boy Scouts, I have 50 teeny ones. There 3 states currently doing the work that has exploded from 1 person who refused to hand over, especially August 2015 when dr Farid Fata global story broke. I could not talk for over 5 years. I’m a Thriver…and am itching to get the work done. Macomb county is loaded with closer to 100 people for many reasons. Kentucky chocked. Director of organ donor. The list is obnoxious. I need someone to be found .i can’t live with myself unless I know for certain, like FBI certain, she’s okay. It is very tricky to define data then state there is a conflict of interest and get someone to do something . Multiple frauds. That’s what happens …I have cried, begged, take the money, left 50 messages yelling because they did nothing and had found the reason to make it bigger. Totally lost it on a social media by saying adoring things trump, using intentionally offensive words then using each names politic enemy to describe them …the worst language possible …the outcome was very interesting . I am very very ill. I don’t have time to police people when your group should be doing this. It is obscene what has happened here to me. ACLU Chose skin color to illustrate what happens to women that attempt to file grievoous bodily harm as instructed by the district attorney’s office . I even begged his brother for Mrs to help put it together . I am going for the OIG.HHS.gov is where I belong. Malcontent is on lists disbursed for hacking my account .
This is under investigation and I said this years ago . You know what ? bias or invested or something not savory . So many people have battled PTSD, alcohol or clinical depression. Solvent induced MS and then post ENCEPHALITIS from a a flu H1Ni is hard on brain and speech …gee no care..MR Finance , malcontent’s older brother should know why. Almost 10 years!! The man works with the public. I would not if you are disabled. People close know I have been sober for 14 years. Bat shit crazy alive is so much better than dead. The saddest is people will talk to you if you tell them you are drunk because they are so much happier with themselves knowing you failed. I wonder how many noticed zi attached my current medical records revealing I needed care desperately almost 4 years ago. They failed Boy Scouts too something needed to be turned over in Texas.
I left a message with a detective in Macomb County. I can guarantee you it was not Dana Nessel’s office. It was my post from yesterday. So that is absolutely Malcontent. I told them what was not done by his brother or the dangerously incompetent.., I was trying to access family in Washington DC . Like I said. It is the major difference of engineers with professional liscensure than just another ding dong that needed extra years of school to cut it and maybe be competent …