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State Health Facts is a KFF project that provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States. It offers data on specific types of health insurance coverage, including employer-sponsored, Medicaid, Medicare, as well as people who are uninsured by demographic characteristics, including age, race/ethnicity, work status, gender, and income. There are also data on health insurance status for a state's population overall and broken down by age, gender, and income.

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  • Health Insurance Transparency under the Affordable Care Act

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    In February, a final rule was issued implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that all health plans provide a uniform summary of coverage for all enrollees and applicants. The idea of providing easy-to-understand summaries of coverage is, in fact, the most popular provision in the ACA, according to a recent Kaiser tracking poll. That finding suggests powerful consumer frustration over the complexity of health insurance and the difficulty people face evaluating health insurance choices and understanding…

  • Number of Nonelderly Uninsured Individuals, 2007-2011

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    Number of Nonelderly Uninsured Individuals, 2007-2011 Download Source KCMU/Urban Institute analysis of 2009 through 2012 ASEC Supplement to the CPS. Holahan J and Chen V. “Changes in Health Insurance Coverage in the Great Recession, 2007-2010.” Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the  Uninsured. December 2011.   

  • Snapshots: Comparison of Expenditures in Nongroup and Employer-Sponsored Insurance: 2004-2007

    Issue Brief

    Data from the insurance industry and reviews of premiums offered through on-line sellers show that premiums for nongroup health insurance are lower than premiums reported on national surveys for employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI).  This paper uses pooled data from the 2004 through 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to compare the insurance payments for and out-of-pocket payments by people with nongroup health insurance and people with ESI.  While premiums for non-group coverage are lower than ESI…

  • Access to Care and Use of Health Services by Low-Income Women

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    This article, by Ruth Almeida and Lisa Dubay of the Urban Institute and Grace Ko of Brown University, examines the effect of insurance on low-income women's access to care and use of health services. Using the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, it examines access to health care for three groups of low-income women: those with Medicaid, those with private coverage, and those with no insurance. Uninsured low-income women were found to have experienced greater…

  • Access to Care for Low-Income Women: The Impact of Medicaid

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    Health coverage is of critical importance to low-income women. This study was undertaken to assess how low-income women with Medicaid, private insurance, or no insurance vary with regard to personal characteristics, health status, and health utilization. Data are from a telephone interview survey of a representative cross-sectional sample of 5,200 low-income women in Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas. On the whole, low-income women were found to experience considerable barriers to care; however, uninsured low-income…