About 13 percent of Ohioans “under-insured,” study finds
By Randy Tucker, Dayton Daily News, Ohio | |
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"The vast majority of people struggling to afford health care are low- and middle- income, and exactly the people the Affordable Care Act was designed to help," said
The uninsured rate for
The number of under-insured Ohioans was near the high end of the under-insurance rate for all states, which ranged from a low of 8 percent in
Collectively, 28 percent of Ohioans, or about 3 million residents, were either under-insured or uninsured in 2012. That was slightly below the national rate in which one in three people, or about 79 million Americans, had no coverage or were at risk for not being able to afford health care in 2012, the study found.
Low- and middle-income families were most likely to be affected, according to the study, which found 13 percent of the under-insured earned between
But the under-insured were also the most likely to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, which offers tax credit subsidies to help buy insurance to families earning up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or
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