{"id":4198,"date":"2018-05-22T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:15:57","slug":"health-insurance-coverage-early-release-of-estimates-from-the-national-health-interview-survey-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/05\/22\/4198\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questions for Robin Cohen, Ph.D., Health Statistician and Lead Author on\u00a0\u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2017<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> What were some of the major findings in your full-year 2017 health insurance estimates?<\/p>\n

RC<\/em><\/strong>: In 2017, 29.3 million persons were uninsured at the time of interview. This is 19.3 million fewer persons than in 2010. In 2017, 9.1% were uninsured, 36.2% had public coverage, and 62.6% had private coverage at the time of interview.<\/p>\n

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Q:<\/strong> What are the trends among race and ethnicity groups who were uninsured in 2017 and compared over time?<\/p>\n

RC:<\/em><\/strong> In 2017, 27.2% of Hispanic, 14.1% of non-Hispanic black, 8.5% of non-Hispanic white, and 7.6% of non-Hispanic Asian adults aged 18\u201364 lacked health insurance coverage at the time of interview.<\/p>\n

Significant decreases in the percentage of uninsured adults were observed from 2013 through 2017 for Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic Asian adults.<\/p>\n

Hispanic adults had the greatest percentage point decrease in the uninsured rate from 2013 (40.6%) through 2016 (25.0%). The observed increase among Hispanic adults between 2016 and 2017 (27.2%) was not significant.<\/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

RC:<\/em><\/strong> In 2017, 43.7% of persons under age 65 with private coverage were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). Enrollment in HDHPs has increased 18.4 percentage points from 25.3% in 2010 to 43.7% in 2017. More recently, the percentage enrolled in an HDHP increased from 39.4% in 2016 to 43.7% in 2017.<\/p>\n

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

RC:<\/em><\/strong> Among the 18 states presented in this report, there were no significant changes in the percentages of uninsured among persons aged 18\u201364 between 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

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

RC:<\/em><\/strong> The take-home message from this report is found in the number of Americans who no longer lack health insurance. In 2017, 29.3 million (9.1%) persons of all ages were uninsured at the time of interview. This estimate is not significantly different from 2016, but there are 19.3 million fewer uninsured persons than in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Questions for Robin Cohen, Ph.D., Health Statistician and Lead Author on\u00a0\u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2017\u201d Q: What were some of the major findings in your full-year 2017 health insurance estimates? RC: In 2017, 29.3 million persons were uninsured at the time of interview. This is 19.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,59509,53746,53747,63793],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198"}],"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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}