1、Order Code 96-891Updated September 3, 2008Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured Populations in 2007Chris L. Peterson and April GradyDomestic Social Policy DivisionSummaryBased on data from the Census Bureaus Current Population Survey (CPS), 45.7million people in the
2、 United States had no health insurance in 2007 a decrease ofapproximately 1.3 million people when compared with 2006. Although it wasstatistically unchanged in 2007, the percentage of people covered by employment-basedcoverage has dropped in every other year since 2000. Whether the uninsured rate ro
3、sein response depended on how much of the employment-based decrease was offset byincreases in public coverage. In 2007, Medicare and Medicaid coverage rates increased,and the uninsured rate declined from 15.8% in 2006 to 15.3% in 2007. Mostly becauseof Medicare, only 1.9% of those age 65 and older w
4、ere uninsured in 2007. In contrast,17.1% of those under age 65 were uninsured. Among the nonelderly uninsured, morethan half were in families with a full-time, full-year worker. Young adults were morelikely to be uninsured than any other age group, and Hispanic individuals had the highestuninsured r
