Federal Funding for Free COVID Vaccines Has Ended – WebMD
“A federal program that helped people get COVID-19 vaccines at no cost has ended. That means uninsured people may be asked to pay as much as $200 for the potentially life-saving shot.”
“In the Congressional Budget Office’s projections of health insurance coverage, 92.3 percent of the US population, or 316 million people, have coverage in 2024, and 7.7 percent, or 26 million, are uninsured. The uninsured share of the population will rise over the course of the next decade, before settling at 8.9 percent in 2034, largely as a result of the end of COVID-19 pandemic–related Medicaid policies, the expiration of enhanced subsidies available through the Affordable Care Act health insurance Marketplaces, and a surge in immigration that began in 2022.”