Women's Health Insurance Coverage: Fact Sheet

Health insurance is a critical factor in making health care accessible to women. Women with coverage are more likely to obtain preventive, primary, and specialty care services, and have better access to many of the new advances in women's health. Most of the 96 million women ages 18 to 64 have some form of coverage. However, the patchwork of different private sector and publicly-funded programs in the U.S. leaves one in five uninsured. The new health reform law includes several measures that will change the profile of women’s coverage between now and 2014 when the new law will be implemented.

This fact sheet provides updated statistics on health coverage and describes the major sources of health insurance for non-elderly adult women ages 18–64, including employer-sponsored coverage, Medicaid, individually purchased insurance, and Medicare. It also provides data on the more than 19 million women who are uninsured, and summarizes the major implications of the health reform law for women and their health coverage.

Fact Sheet: December 2011 (.pdf)