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Over the past decade, the rate of persons under age 65 with health insurance has decreased 1.0%, from 83.6% in 2001 to 82.8% in 2011. The proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider also decreased, moving from 78.2% in 2000 to 76.8% in 2010, although this change was not statistically significant. Differences in rates of health insurance exist by race and ethnicity and level of educational attainment. Differences also are observed in the proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider by race and ethnicity, level of educational attainment, and type of insurance.
Leading Health Indicators
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Persons with medical insurance (AHS-1.1)
Persons with a usual primary care provider (AHS-3)
Persons with medical insurance (AHS-1.1)
- Healthy People 2020 objective AHS-1.1 tracks the proportion of persons aged less than 65 years with health (medical) insurance.
- HP2020 Baseline: In 2008, 83.2% of persons aged less than 65 years had health insurance.
- HP2020 Target: 100%, or total coverage.
- Over the past decade, the rate of persons with health insurance has decreased 1.0% between 2001 and 2011, from 83.6% to 82.8%.
Persons Without Health Insurance by Educational Attainment, 2011
SOURCE: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.
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- Those with an advanced degree had the highest rate of health insurance coverage, 95.3% in 2010, among education groups, whereas those without a high school education had the lowest rate, 54.4% in 2010. When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for persons without a high school education was more than nine and a half times the best group rate.
- Among racial and ethnic groups, the white non-Hispanic population had the highest rate of health insurance coverage, 87.1% in 2011, whereas the American Indian or Alaska Native population and the Hispanic or Latino population had rates of 65.8% and 68.9%, respectively
- When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for the American Indian or Alaska Native population was more than two and a half times that for the white non-Hispanic population, while the rate for the Hispanic or Latino population was almost two and a half times that for the white non-Hispanic population.
- Females had a higher rate of health insurance coverage (84.4%), compared to males (81.2%) in 2011.
- Those with an advanced degree had the highest rate of health insurance coverage, 95.2% in 2011, among education groups, whereas those without a high school education had the lowest rate, 57.5% in 2011. When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for persons without a high school education was almost nine times the rate for those with an advanced degree.
- Among income groups, the highest income population (those with family incomes of more than 600% of the federal poverty level) had the highest rate of health insurance coverage, 96.8% in 2011, whereas the near-poor population (those with family incomes between 100% and 199% of the federal poverty level) had the lowest rate, 70.0% in 2011. When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for the near-poor population was almost nine and a half times the best group rate.
- Persons aged less than 18 years had the highest rate of health insurance, 93.0% in 2011, among broad age groups. Rates for the other age groups were:
- 74.6% among 18–44 year olds (lowest rate)
- 84.6% among 45–64 year olds
- When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for the 18–44 year olds was more than three and a half times the rate for persons aged less than 18 years.
- When further refining the age groups, children aged less than 5 years had the highest rate of health insurance, 95.0% in 2011. Rates for the other age groups were:
- 93.2% among 5–11 year olds
- 91.0% among 12–17 year olds
- 74.1% among 18–24 year olds (lowest rate)
- 74.8% among 25–44 year olds
- 82.6% among 45–54 year olds
- 87.0% among 55–64 year olds.
- When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for the 18–24 year olds was more than five times the rate for children aged less than 5 years.
- Persons born in the U.S. had a higher rate of health insurance coverage (86.0%), compared to those born outside the U.S. (63.8%) in 2010. When expressed as persons without health insurance, the rate for the population born outside the U.S. was more than two and half times that for the US-born population.
Endnotes:
- All disparities described are statistically significant at the 0.05 level of significance. To maintain comparability across indicators, disparities are computed using adverse events.
- Data for this measure are available annually and come from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC/NCHS.
- The terms “Hispanic or Latino” and “Hispanic” are used interchangeably in this report.
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Persons with a usual primary care provider (AHS-3)
- Healthy People 2020 objective AHS-3 tracks the proportion of persons with usual primary care provider.
- HP2020 Baseline: In 2007, 76.3% of persons with usual primary care provider.
- HP2020 Target: 83.9%, or a 10 percent improvement over baseline
- Over the past decade, the proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider decreased 1.8% between 2000 and 2010, from 78.2% to 76.8%, although this change was not statistically significant.
Persons Without a Usual Primary Care Provider by Health Insurance Status, 2010
SOURCE: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), AHRQ.
- Among racial and ethnic groups, the American Indian or Alaska Native population had the highest proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider, 80.7% in 2010, whereas the Hispanic or Latino population had a rate of 67.3% in 2010.
- Females had a higher proportion of persons with usual primary care provider coverage (80.5%), compared to males (72.9%) in 2010.
- Among education groups, those with an advanced degree had the highest proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider, 79.3% in 2010, whereas those without a high school education had the lowest rate, 67.1% in 2010.
- Among income groups, the highest income population (those with family incomes of more than 600% of the federal poverty level) had the highest proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider, 83.8% in 2010, whereas those with family incomes below the federal poverty level had the lowest proportion, 70.8% in 2010.
- Persons aged 65 years and over had the highest proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider, 90.2%, among age groups in 2010. Rates for the other age groups were:
- 87.9% among persons aged less than 18 years
- 62.4% among 18–44 year olds (lowest rate)
- 79.5% among 45–64 year olds.
- When expressed as persons without a usual primary care provider, the rate for the 18–44 year olds was nearly four times the rate for persons aged 65 years and over.
- When further refining the age groups, children less than 5 years had the highest proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider, 91.2% in 2010. Rates for the other age groups were:
- 88.5% among 5–11 year olds
- 84.4% among 12–17 year olds
- 59.9% among 18–24 year olds (lowest rate)
- 63.3% among 25–44 year olds
- 76.1% among 45–54 year olds
- 83.7% among 55–64 year olds
- 90.0% among 65–75 year olds
- 90.8% among 75–84 year olds
- 89.5% among persons aged 85 years and over.
- When expressed as persons without a usual primary care provider, the rate for the 18–24 year olds was more than four and a half times the rate for children less than 5 years.
- Persons born in the U.S. had a higher proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider (79.0%), compared to those born outside the U.S. (61.4%) in 2010. When expressed as persons without a usual primary care provider, the rate for the population born outside the U.S. was almost twice that for the US-born population.
- Among insurance groups for persons aged less than 65 years, those with public insurance had a highest proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider (81.5%), whereas the uninsured had the lowest proportion (42.3%) in 2010. When expressed as persons aged less than 65 years without a usual primary care provider, the rate for the population with public insurance was more than three times that for the uninsured population.
Endnotes:
- All disparities described are statistically significant at the 0.05 level of significance. To maintain comparability across indicators, disparities are computed using adverse events.
- Data for this measure are available annually and come from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey (MEPS), AHRQ.
- The terms “Hispanic or Latino” and “Hispanic” are used interchangeably in this report.
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