The Spectrum
By: David DeMille
A stronger job market, participation in government health plans and a surge of last-minute enrollments on the Affordable Care Act marketplace appear to have contributed to a massive improvement in Washington County’s health insurance rates.
The county saw its rate of uninsured cut nearly in half last year, from 16.6 percent in 2015 to 9 percent in 2016, according to new survey data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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“Our child uninsured rate is at an historic low and we are very pleased to see Utah’s uninsured rates drop,” said Jessie Mandle of Voices for Utah’s Children, a Salt Lake-area advocacy group, in an email. “But compared to the rest of the nation, we are still falling behind.”
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