PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER

Official insights from Public Health – Seattle & King County staff

Help King County reach 65,000 uninsured people who could get health insurance this fall

October 30, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

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The numbers tell a good story, when it comes to health insurance. And … the numbers also show us how we can help make things better this fall. In King County, the number of people without health insurance has plummeted by 55 percent, thanks to the Affordable Care Act and the County’s persistent efforts to […]

Thanks to aggressive ACA enrollment efforts, King County cuts uninsured rate in half

September 23, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

We have more evidence for how much the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is helping King County residents and how Public Health’s enrollment outreach is paying off. The percentage of working-age adults without insurance has fallen by more than half, according to newly released data from the US Census Bureau (the gold standard for tracking how […]