Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured in 2008 (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised April 1, 2010 |
| Report Number |
96-891 |
| Authors |
Chris L. Peterson and April Grady, Domestic Social Policy Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
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Summary:
In 2006, 47.0 million people in the United States had no health insurance - anincrease of approximately 2.2 million people when compared with 2005. Thepercentage of people covered by job-based coverage has dropped annually since 2000.Whether the uninsurance rate rose in response depended on how much of the job-baseddecrease was offset by increases in public coverage. Unlike in recent years, the overallpublic coverage rate declined in 2006; at the same time, rates for the Medicare andMedicaid categories of public coverage remained statistically unchanged. Theuninsurance rate rose from 15.3% in 2005 to 15.8% in 2006. Mostly because ofMedicare, 1.5% of those 65 and older were uninsured in 2006; among the nonelderly,17.8% were uninsured. More than half of the nonelderly uninsured were in familieswith a full-time, full-year worker. Young adults were more likely to be uninsured thanany other age group. More than one-third of Hispanic individuals were uninsured, thehighest rate among race/ethnicity groups. In 2007, the Census Bureau released revised1996-2005 health insurance estimates showing slightly fewer uninsured individuals.1This report, which examines characteristics of insured and uninsured people in 2006,uses these revised estimates when referring to prior years.
