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The proportion of Americans without health insurance held steady at around 8% of the population in 2025, according to new findings from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n
The national survey results, released Thursday, show the all-ages uninsured rate has stayed significantly down from where it was several years ago, but the ranks of the uninsured could soon expand as the Trump administration\u2019s sweeping changes to the health landscape begin to take hold.<\/p>\n
Massive\u00a0changes to Medicaid, the government\u2019s safety-net health program for low-income Americans, passed into law last year could result in 10 million more uninsured individuals over a decade, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.<\/p>\n
And the\u00a0expiration\u00a0this year of certain Affordable Care Act subsidies \u2014 which had offset premium costs \u2014 is also contributing to reduced participation in marketplace health programs. Around\u00a05 million fewer people\u00a0are expected to enroll in those plans in 2026 compared with 2025, according to the healthcare research nonprofit KFF.<\/p>\n
The government has multiple programs for tracking Americans\u2019 insurance status, which can give different numbers depending on factors like timing and question wording. Many researchers consider the U.S. Census Bureau to be \u201cthe official scorekeeper,\u201d said David Howard, an Emory University health policy and management professor.<\/p>\n
But the CDC survey results tracks closely with that, and they offer the first complete data for all of 2025 \u2014 the first year of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term in office.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has sought to expand access to low-premium catastrophic health insurance plans and lower drug prices for Americans who don\u2019t have health insurance. It has also suggested that projected insurance enrollment declines indicate a drop-off of fraudulent and ineligible enrollees, rather than eligible Americans.<\/p>\n
Although the share of insured and uninsured stayed roughly the same in 2025 as the year before, the number of uninsured grew by about 800,000 \u2014 300,000 of them children. The growth of the overall U.S. population helps explain that.<\/p>\n
The survey results also suggest a possible increased insured rate among Hispanic Americans. But that may in part reflect the effects of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown, if uninsured members of that group left the country, Howard said.<\/p>\n
Most Americans 65 and older have health insurance through the federal Medicare program. It\u2019s different for younger Americans, many of whom are covered through a patchwork of public and private insurance programs.<\/p>\n
The percentage of Americans under 65 who were uninsured rose in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s \u2014 from 12% in 1980 to more than 18% in 2010. It fell following passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, which expanded Medicaid programs and enacted measures to make affordable health insurance available to more people.<\/p>\n
By 2016 it dropped nearly to 10%, before rising to 11% to 12% during Trump\u2019s first administration, according to\u00a0historical survey data\u00a0from the CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the rate of uninsured fall again, as a result of government policies put in place to preserve coverage as people faced disruptions related to the pandemic. The rate hit an all-time low in 2023, falling below 9%.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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