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Abstract A new Commonwealth Fund survey finds that in the wake of the
Affordable Care Act’s first open enrollment period, significantly fewer working-age
adults are uninsured than just before the sign-up period began, and many have used
their new coverage to obtain needed care. The uninsured rate for people ages 19 to
64 declined from 20 percent in the July-to-September 2013 period to 15 percent
in the April-to-June 2014 period. An estimated 9.5 million fewer adults were uninsured.
Young men and women drove a large part of the decline: the uninsured rate
for 19-to-34-year-olds declined from 28 percent to 18 percent, with an estimated
5.7 million fewer young adults uninsured. By June, 60 percent of adults with new
coverage through the marketplaces or Medicaid reported they had visited a doctor
or hospital or filled a prescription; of these, 62 percent said they could not have
accessed or afforded this care previously
