{"id":4407,"date":"2019-02-27T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2019-02-27T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:30:47","slug":"health-insurance-coverage-early-release-of-estimates-from-the-national-health-interview-survey-january-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/02\/27\/4407\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January\u2013September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Emily P. Terlizzi, M.P.H., Health Statistician and Lead Author on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/insur201902.pdf\">Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January\u2013September 2018<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: How did the uninsured vary by age groups in this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: In the first 9 months of 2018, 9.2% of persons of all ages, 10.8% of persons under age 65, 4.9% of children, and 13% of adults aged 18-64 lacked health insurance at the time of interview.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: How did the uninsured vary by race in this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: In the first 9 months of 2018, 26.3% of Hispanic, 14.7% of non-Hispanic black, 8.8% of non-Hispanic white, and 8.2% of non-Hispanic Asian adults aged 18\u201364 lacked health insurance coverage at the time of interview.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: How did the uninsured vary by regions in the United States?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: In the first 9 months of 2018, 7.3% of adults aged 18-64 living in the Northeast, 11% of those living in the Midwest, 18.1% of those living in the South, and 11.2% of those living in the West lacked health insurance coverage at the time of interview.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: What is the take home message for this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: I think the take-home message from this report is found in the number of Americans who no longer lack health insurance. In the first 9 months of 2018, 29.7 million (9.2%) persons of all ages were uninsured at the time of interview. This estimate is not significantly different from 2017, but there are 18.9 million fewer uninsured persons than in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Emily P. Terlizzi, M.P.H., Health Statistician and Lead Author on \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January\u2013September 2018\u201d Q: How did the uninsured vary by age groups in this report? ET: In the first 9 months of 2018, 9.2% of persons of all ages, 10.8% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59509,53746,63793],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407"}],"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=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}