“Following the first-ever drop in premiums for plans sold on the Federal Exchange for 2019, in another first CMS is proposing to reduce the Exchange user fee charged to insurers to fund Exchange operations, reducing this user fee will reduce the premium each consumer pays in 2020."

— Seema Verma, Administrator, CMS

The rate of Americans without health insurance has risen to 13.7% from 10.9% in 2016. That represents about 7 million people losing or dropping insurance between 2016 and 2018. Before the implementation of the health care law, the uninsured rate was 18%. Those younger than 35 reported an uninsured rate of more than 21%, a 5 percent increase from 2016.

Excerpted from: Gallup