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Health Insurance Estimates for Counties
Health Insurance Estimates for Counties
Introduction
There is 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 (Mills, 2002). With the failure of the proposal for universal health insurance coverage in the mid 1990s, it became apparent that targeted policies would be the path to follow for programs designed to increase coverage in the population. In order to determine how one would best target certain populations that may have disproportionate levels of non-coverage, policy makers need to be able to accurately identify these groups. The U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) project of the Small Area Estimates Branch (SAEB) is researching the feasibility of producing model-based estimates of the number of people not covered by health insurance (i.e. uninsured) for states and counties.
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