State of the Union 2019: Health
- Millennials benefited from the expansion of health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The share of adults in their 20s without health insurance fell by more than half from 2009 to 2017.
- This expansion led to a reduction in racial and ethnic inequalities in health insurance coverage.
- Due primarily to increasing suicides and drug overdoses, mortality rates increased dramatically among young adults from 2008 to 2016. Because the increase was more rapid among non-Hispanic whites than non-Hispanic blacks, racial inequality in mortality rates declined.
