Study: Percent of uninsured Coloradans drops

Initial projections show that 9 percent of the Colorado population lacks health insurance in the wake of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a study released today by WalletHub, a subsidiary of Washington, D.C.-based Evolution Finance.

Before the law’s implementation, according to the study, the uninsured rate in Colorado was 16.5 percent.

The study subtracts the number of new Medicaid enrollees and the number of newly insured under private-insurance plans from the number of uninsured before the law was implemented.

Opponents of the Affordable Care Act have often pointed out that no one knows the true number of uninsured in…