America's underinsured: a state-by-state look at health insurance affordability prior to the new coverage expansions
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Schoen, Cathy, author Hayes, Susan L., author Collins, Sara R., author Lippa, Jacob A., author Radely, David C., author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, 2014
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage -- economics Insurance, Health -- economics Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data Adult Health Benefit Plans, Employee -- statistics & numerical data Health Care Reform Income Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Insurance, Health -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data Middle Aged Poverty Taxes -- statistics & numerical data Humans United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The Affordable Care Act insurance reforms seek to expand coverage and to improve the affordability of care and premiums. Before the implementation of the major reforms, data from U.S. census surveys indicated nearly 32 million insured people under age 65 were in households spending a high share of their income on medical care. Adding these "underinsured" people to the estimated 47.3 million uninsured, the state share of the population at risk for not being able to afford care ranged from 14 percent in Massachusetts to 36 percent to 38 percent in Idaho, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas. Nationally, more than half of people with low incomes and 20 percent of those with middle incomes were either underinsured or uninsured in 2012. The report provides state baselines to assess changes in coverage and affordability and compare states as insurance expansions and market reforms are implemented.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (26 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101630912 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101630912