{"id":4032,"date":"2017-11-16T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2017-11-16T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:15:16","slug":"health-insurance-coverage-estimates-from-the-national-health-interview-survey-january-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/11\/16\/4032\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Coverage: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emily P. Zammitti, M.P.H., Associate Service Fellow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Questions for Emily P. Zammitti, M.P.H., Associate Service Fellow and Lead Author on \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2017<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Q: <\/strong>What is new in this report?<\/p>\n

EZ<\/em><\/strong>: <\/strong>What\u2019s new in this report is that we are putting out estimates based on data collected from January through June of 2017. For example, in the first 6 months of 2017, 9.0% of persons of all ages were uninsured, 36.4% had public coverage, and 62.6% had private coverage at the time of interview. For the first time using 2017 data, this report also presents state-level estimates for 11 states.<\/p>\n

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Q: <\/strong>What does your data show this year for Americans who have high-deductible health insurance plans compared to previous years?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>EZ<\/em><\/strong>: <\/strong>We\u2019re seeing a continued climb in the percentage enrolled in high-deductible health insurance plans. In the first 6 months of 2017, 42.9% of privately insured persons under age 65 were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan, or an HDHP. Enrollment in HDHPs has increased from 25.3% in 2010, and more recently, has increased from 39.4% in 2016.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Q: <\/strong>How has coverage through tax-advantaged health savings account insurance plans changed in 2017?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

EZ<\/em><\/strong>: This is another area where we\u2019re seeing a statistically significant increase \u2013 Americans enrolled in tax-advantaged health savings account insurance plans. <\/strong>Among persons under age 65 who had private health insurance coverage, the percentage who had a high-deductible health plan with a health savings account, or a consumer-directed health plan, has more than doubled, from 7.7% in 2010 to 17.4% in the first 6 months of 2017. More recently, the percentage of those enrolled in a consumer-directed health plan increased from 15.5% in 2016 to 17.4%.<\/p>\n

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Q: <\/strong>Are a lot of Americans finding coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces?<\/p>\n

EZ<\/em><\/strong>: <\/strong>This new report does offer updated statistics on the number of Americans finding coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces. Among persons under age 65, 65.4% (176.8 million people) were covered by private health insurance plans at the time of interview in the first 6 months of 2017. This includes 3.7% (10.1 million people) covered by private plans obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace or state-based exchanges.<\/p>\n

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Q:<\/strong> What do you see in state-level estimates of health insurance coverage this year so far?<\/p>\n

EZ<\/em><\/strong>:<\/strong> This report presents estimates of health insurance coverage in the first half of 2017 for 11 states: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. Of these 11 states, in the first 6 months of 2017, the percentage of adults aged 18-64 who were uninsured was highest in Texas (25.1%), and lowest in New York (7.0%).\u00a0 Despite variation in the uninsured estimates between 2016 and the first 6 months of 2017, none of the differences for any of the 11 selected states were significant.<\/p>\n

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Q: <\/strong>What is the take-home message from this report?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

EZ<\/em><\/strong>: <\/strong>I think the real take-home message from this report is found in the number of Americans who no longer lack health insurance. In the first 6 months of 2017, 28.8 million (9.0%) persons of all ages were uninsured at the time of interview. This estimate is not significantly different from 2016, but there are 19.8 million fewer uninsured persons than in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Questions for Emily P. Zammitti, M.P.H., Associate Service Fellow and Lead Author on \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2017\u201d Q: What is new in this report? EZ: What\u2019s new in this report is that we are putting out estimates based on data collected from January through June of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59509,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032"}],"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=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}