January Spotlight on Health Insurance
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 includes changes related to health insurance.1 In 2010, approximately 16.3 percent of the U.S. population (an estimated 49.9 million people) lacked health insurance.2 An estimated 31 percent of people had government health insurance coverage.3 Nearly 10 percent of all children under 18 lacked health insurance, while 15.4 percent of children in poverty lacked health insurance.4 Estimated health insurance coverage may vary by race and ethnicity, with 11.7 percent of the White, non-Hispanic population uninsured as compared to 20.8 percent of the Black population and 30.7 percent of the Hispanic population.5Quick Health Data Online offers many different types of data related to health insurance and access to care, including information on:
- Counts and percentages of uninsured adults by county,
- Children's health insurance enrollment,
- Primary Care HPSA designations by county, and
- Self-reported health insurance status.
Data on the system are provided for males and females with race and ethnicity details to enable comparisons between different population groups. Data can be used to generate charts such as these, which present adults 18-64 who report having no health insurance, by race and gender,
, percent of population 18-64 who are uninsured, by county, , and the percentage of females ages 18-64 reporting having no health insurance. 
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