{"id":4460,"date":"2019-05-09T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:15:55","slug":"health-insurance-coverage-early-release-of-estimates-from-the-national-health-interview-survey-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/05\/09\/4460\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Emily P. Terlizzi, M.P.H., Associate Service Fellow and Lead Author on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/insur201905.pdf\">Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2018<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q;<\/strong> How did the uninsured vary by age groups and compare to last year in this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: In 2018, 9.4% of persons of all ages, 11.1% of persons under age 65, 5.2% of children, and 13.3% of adults aged 18-64 lacked health insurance at the time of interview. In 2017, 9.1% of persons of all ages, 10.7% of persons under age 65, 5.0% of children, and 12.8% of adults aged 18-64 lacked health insurance at the time of interview. However, between 2017 and 2018, none of these differences by age group were significantly different.<\/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 2018, 7.7% of adults aged 18-64 living in the Northeast, 11.1% of those living in the Midwest, 18.4% of those living in the South, and 11.6% of those living in the West lacked health insurance coverage at the time of interview.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Has there been an increase in the percentage of persons with private coverage enrolled in high deductible health plans?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: In 2018, almost 45.8% of persons under age 65 with private coverage were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). The percentage of persons enrolled in a HDHP has increased 20.5 percentage point since 2010.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: What is new in this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ET<\/em><\/strong>: This report provides health insurance estimates for the United States and 17 selected states using a full year of 2018 National Health Interview Survey data. Among adults aged 18\u201364 the percentage who were uninsured ranged from 4.9% in Massachusetts to 25.0% in Texas.<\/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>: The take-home message from this report is found in the number of Americans who no longer lack health insurance. In 2018, 30.4 million (9.4%) persons of all ages were uninsured at the time of interview. This estimate is not significantly different from the 29.3 million (9.1%) in 2017, but there are 18.2 million fewer uninsured persons than in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Emily P. Terlizzi, M.P.H., Associate Service Fellow and Lead Author on \u201cHealth Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2018\u201d Q; How did the uninsured vary by age groups and compare to last year in this report? ET: In 2018, 9.4% of persons of all ages, 11.1% 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\/4460"}],"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=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}