In September 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (pdf) reported that the uninsured rate among all Americans in the first quarter of the year dropped to 9.2 percent. This rate is estimated to be the lowest among all uninsured Americans of all ages since 1972, when the center began reporting such data from the National Health Interview Survey. The report said that among adults aged 18 to 64, the percentage uninsured droped from 16.3 percent in 2014 to 13.0 percent in the first quarter of 2015. At the same time, there was an increase in private coverage from 67.3 percent to 70.4 percent. Among children under 18 years of age, the percentage with private coverage increased from 52.6 percent in 2013 to 56.3 percent in the first quarter of 2015. This increase reversed a 14-year trend of declining rates of private coverage for children under 18.
