Fewer in NJ have no health insurance; will it last?
The percentage of people without health insurance in
It marked at least the fourth consecutive year that the state's uninsurance rate declined, making good on one of the key goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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The road ahead, though, is fraught. Premiums for individuals who buy health insurance through the Obamacare marketplace are expected to climb by double digits in 2017. And the Trump administration has given signs that it doesn't plan to heavily market the program or enforce one of the law's most unpopular features: that consumers pay a penalty if they don't buy insurance.
The law passed in 2010 in a bid to provide coverage to nearly all Americans and begin to slow down the rising cost of health care.
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On the first measure, it seems to have worked. The
But neighboring states appear to have been far more effective in signing up consumers.
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