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Health Insurance Estimates for States
Health Insurance Estimates for States
Introduction
The U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Estimates Branch (SAEB) is developing model-based estimates of the number of people not covered by health insurance (i.e. uninsured) at the state and county levels. There are two primary motivations for conducting this research. First, there is a broad public interest in health insurance coverage issues. The number of uninsured people in the United States increased by roughly 10 million in the 1990s, despite a strengthening economy. With the failure of the universal health insurance coverage movement in the early 1990s, it became apparent that incremental policies would be the path to follow for increasing coverage in the population. In order to determine how to best target certain populations that may have disproportionate levels of non-coverage, policy makers need to be able to accurately identify these groups.
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