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. 1992 Fall;14(1):31-57.

Americans' health insurance coverage, 1980-91

K R Levit  1 , G L Olin, S W Letsch
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Americans' health insurance coverage, 1980-91

K R Levit et al. Health Care Financ Rev. 1992 Fall.

Abstract

The authors of this article have used Current Population Surveys to summarize public and private health insurance trends in the United States over the last 12 years. Key findings include the declining percentage of the non-elderly population with employer-sponsored coverage and increasing numbers of low- and middle-income uninsured. That is, in a period of fast-rising health care costs, the poor and the near-poor in working families have been losing coverage for health care and facing increasing risks of inadequate care and financial loss. These data highlight health care access and financing problems now facing the Nation.

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Figure 1. Distribution of family income relative to the poverty level for the non-elderly: United States, 1980 and 1991
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Figure 2. Number of elderly, by family income relative to the poverty level: United States, survey years 1980-91
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Figure 3. Distribution of family income relative to the poverty level for the elderly: United States, 1980 and 1991
Figure 4
Figure 4. Percentage of population with no health insurance coverage, by census division: United States, 1991
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