Health Insurance
Adults without insurance grew from 13.7 to 15.5 percent from 2000 to 2008. Although the percentage uninsured adults did not change from 2007 to 2008, adults continue to lose job-based coverage.
Bucking the trend, the number of uninsured children dropped from 11% to 9.9% because many children are eligible for SCHIP and Medicaid programs not available to adults.
- Analysis of Health Insurance Census Data by the Kaiser Family Health Foundation.
- Health Insurance Coverage of Children under 18, by State, 2007-2008 Calculations Georgetown University, Health Policy Institute (9/29/09)