Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2014

This report presents statistics on health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2014 and 2015 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) and the American Community Survey (ACS).  The report also focuses on changes between 2013 and 2014.

Table of Contents:

Introduction ......................................................................................... 1

National Changes in Health Insurance Coverage .................................. 1

What Is Health Insurance Coverage? .................................................... 1

Two Measures of Health Insurance Coverage ....................................... 2

Health Insurance Coverage and the Affordable Care Act ...................... 2

Highlights ............................................................................................ 3

Estimates of the Population Without Health Insurance Coverage .......... 4

Multiple Coverage Types ...................................................................... 6

Health Insurance Coverage by Selected Characteristics ........................ 6

Age ................................................................................................ 6

Marital Status ................................................................................. 8

Disability Status ............................................................................. 9

Work Experience ............................................................................. 9

Educational Attainment ................................................................ 11

Household Income ........................................................................ 11

Income-to-Poverty Ratios .............................................................. 13

Family Status ................................................................................ 14

Residence ..................................................................................... 16

Race and Hispanic Origin.............................................................. 16

Nativity ........................................................................................ 16

Children and Adults Without Health Insurance Coverage .............. 17

State Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage ................................... 18

More Information About Health Insurance Coverage .......................... 21

Additional Data and Contacts ....................................................... 21

State and Local Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage .............. 21

Health Insurance Coverage Dynamics ........................................... 21

Comments ......................................................................................... 22

Sources of Estimates .......................................................................... 22

2014 and 2015 CPS ASEC Estimates ............................................ 22

Statistical Accuracy....................................................................... 23

Healthcare researchers, physicians, nurses, statisticians, healthcare workers including emergency medicine clinic workers, hospital staffers, and administrators along with health policy analysts and lawmakers may be interested in this report.