The Affordable Care Act is reducing the number of people without health insurance, with the uninsured rate dropping below 10 percent, according to CNBC.
Here are five things to know:
1. The number of individuals who did not get needed healthcare because of cost fell to 4.4 percent. In 2013, the rate was nearly 6 percent and continues to fall since the ACA's implementation, as reported by the CDC, according the CNBC.
2. The rate of people without health insurance was 9.2 percent in the first three months of 2015, down from 11.5 percent in the same period in 2015.
3. Hispanics continue to be the ethnic group with the highest rate of uninsured with 19.6 percent of Hispanics lacking health insurance in the first quarter of 2015. There has been a decrease of about 10 percent in the uninsured rate among Hispanics since the ACA's implementation.
4. Thirty states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid eligibility to almost every adult earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $16,243 per individual.
5. More than 13 million people enrolled in Medicaid since eligibility restrictions were loosened.
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