One in four adults reported their family’s financial situation was worse in September 2020 than before the pandemic, but the pandemic’s financial effects varied significantly by race, ethnicity, and income. Without additional assistance, these disparities could widen.
We project 48 million people will live in families with a worker who experiences a COVID-19-related job loss in the last three quarters of 2020, with 10.1 million of those people losing health coverage tied to that job and 3.5 million becoming uninsured.
If the US Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act (ACA), coverage will decrease considerably in every state, within every age group, and across people of all races and ethnicities, leaving an additional 21.1 million people nationwide uninsured in 2022.
Fear and confusion related to the “public charge” rule may be causing some immigrant families with children to avoid critical benefit programs that are essential to children’s and families’ health and well-being, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
About one in five uninsured new moms reported at least one unmet need for medical care because of cost in the past year, and more than half were very worried about paying their medical bills.