{"id":3432,"date":"2017-02-14T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:15:27","slug":"health-insurance-coverage-early-release-of-estimates-from-the-national-health-interview-survey-january-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/02\/14\/3432\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Martinez, M.P.H., M.H.S.A., Epidemiologist and Health Statistician<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Questions for Michael Martinez, M.P.H., M.H.S.A., Epidemiologist, Health Statistician and Lead Author on \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-September 2016<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Q<\/strong>: What do you think is the most significant finding in your new study?<\/p>\n

MM<\/strong><\/em>: I think the most significant finding in this study is the snapshot view of varied health insurance types. While from January through September 2016, among adults aged 18 to 64, 12.3% were uninsured at the time of interview, 20.3% had public coverage, and 69.0% had private health insurance coverage. Among the 136.0 million adults in this age group with private coverage, 9.3 million–or 4.7%–were covered by private health insurance plans obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace or state-based exchanges during the first 9 months of 2016.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: How did health insurance coverage in the United States compare in the first 9 months of 2016 to 2015 and 2010?<\/p>\n

MM<\/strong><\/em>: We\u2019ve observed a number of changes in health insurance coverage between 2010 and 2015 compared to the first 9 months of 2016. Between 2010 and the first 9 months of 2016, 20.4 million persons of all ages gained coverage. In the first 9 months of 2016, 28.2 million (8.8%) persons of all ages were uninsured at the time of interview, compared with 48.6 million (16.0%) persons in 2010 and 28.6 million (9.1%) persons in 2015. The difference in uninsured estimates between 2015 and the first 9 months of 2016 was not significant.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: Where do high-deductible plans through private health insurance fit into 2016 estimates compared to earlier years?<\/p>\n

MM<\/strong><\/em>: Among private health insurance plans, enrollment in high-deductible health plans has been increasing in recent years. 39.1% of persons under age 65 with private health insurance were enrolled in high-deductible health plans in the first 9 months of 2016. This percentage has increased significantly, from 25.3% in 2010 and from 36.7% in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: What are the trends among race and ethnicity groups in health insurance coverage this year and compared over time?<\/p>\n

MM<\/strong><\/em>: There\u2019s been quite a bit of change in health insurance coverage among race and ethnicity groups over the years. For example, in the first 9 months of 2016, 24.7% of Hispanic, 15.1% of non-Hispanic black, 8.5% of non-Hispanic white, and 7.8% of non-Hispanic Asian adults aged 18\u201364 lacked health insurance coverage at the time of interview. Significant decreases in the percentage of uninsured adults were observed between 2013 and the first 9 months of 2016 for Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic Asian adults. Hispanic adults had the greatest percentage point decrease in the uninsured rate between 2013 (40.6%) and the first 9 months of 2016 (24.7%).<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: How is health insurance coverage looking this year for our youngest population \u2013 children under 18 years of age?<\/p>\n

MM<\/em><\/strong>: From January through September 2016, among children under 18 years of age, 5.0% were uninsured at the time of interview, 43.4% had public coverage, and 53.5% had private health insurance coverage. Among the 39.3 million children under 18 years of age with private coverage, 1.7 million or 2.3% were covered by private health insurance plans obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace or state-based exchanges during the first 9 months of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Questions for Michael Martinez, M.P.H., M.H.S.A., Epidemiologist, Health Statistician and Lead Author on \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-September 2016\u201d Q: What do you think is the most significant finding in your new study? MM: I think the most significant finding in this study is the snapshot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53700,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}