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Title: Health Insurance Coverage for Women of Reproductive Age, 2013-16
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included several provisions to increase access to affordable health insurance coverage for nonelderly adults. In this chartbook, we report changes in uninsurance among women of reproductive age (15 to 44) from 2013 to 2016 using data from the American Community Survey (ACS). We find the uninsurance rate among women of reproductive age fell from 20.3 percent in 2013 to 11.6 percent in 2016, a 43 percent decrease; women of all ages, family structures, races and ethnicities, citizenship status, educational attainment, employment status, and incomes gained coverage between 2013 and 2016; despite these gains, women of color, single mothers, noncitizens, and women with low incomes or a high school education or less still had higher rates of uninsurance in 2016; among reproductive-age women who remained uninsured in 2016, about 20 percent were likely eligible for comprehensive Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage based on their income, another 28 percent were likely eligible for assistance with premiums for Marketplace coverage based on their income; and nearly 50 percent were likely ineligible for assistance obtaining comprehensive health insurance, including noncitizens (29.1 percent), low-income women in nonexpansion states eligible for family planning programs only (10.2 percent) or ineligible for any Medicaid benefits (5.5 percent), and women with incomes above 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or FPL (4.2 percent).
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Authors: Mcmorrow, Stacey; Johnston, Emily M; Steedle, Ruby; Thomas, Tyler W
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems
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