Friday, October 31, 2014WARREN, Ohio -- The Affordable Care Act has increased health-care coverage by 6% or more in each of the four counties Ohio’s 13th congressional district includes, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan says.
Ryan, in a news release issued Thursday, cites data from Enroll America, an organization that helps with enrollment, and Civis Analytics, a data firm, that reflect the year-over-year change. In Mahoning County, the percentage of uninsured individuals declined from 18% last year to 11% this year, a drop of 7 percentage points. Trumbull County’s uninsured declined by a similar percentage, to10% this year from 17% last year.
Each seeing similar 6-percentage-point declines in uninsured were Summit County, where the rate fell from 15% last year to 9% this year, and Portage County, where the decrease was from 14% to 8%.
“I am proud to have supported this legislation that has helped so many hardworking Americans get the health insurance they deserve and so desperately need,” Ryan, D-13 Ohio. “My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have spent each and every day since the Affordable Care Act was passed vilifying and scaring the public into thinking, and sometimes believing, that this law is something that it clearly is not. This is just the next in a long line of reports and studies that are showing that the Affordable Care Act is good for our economy and good for the health of Ohioans and Americans across the country.”
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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