U.S. Health Insurance - Statistics & Facts
Health insurance is a term commonly used to describe any program that helps in the payment of medical expenses. There are a number of forms of health insurance that exist in the United States; the main forms include varieties of private and public coverage. There are social welfare programs such as Medicaid in place in order to provide assistance to people who are unable to afford health coverage.
The number of uninsured people have been consistently falling since the ACA was signed in 2010. However Hispanics and Blacks are still the most uninsured ethnicities in the U.S. In 2016, 28.3 percent of Hispanics were uninsured.
Enrollment in Medicaid is on the rise, which provides health care to low-income citizens or lawful permanent residents. 2016 Enrollment was estimated to be 70.5 million U.S. dollars. The number of Americans with private health insurance began to fall in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but the numbers have been rising slowly again since 2013. In 2015, 63.2 percent of Americans had private health insurance.
Public opinion on ACA has been split down the middle since it was enacted in 2010. As of December 2016, 46 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, whilst only 43 percent had a favorable opinion of it. Generally Democrats want ACA to be expanded or kept the same, whereas Republicans overwhelmingly want it to be repealed.
The use of lifestyle factors to determine insurance premiums is highly controversial in the U.S. The number of Americans who are opposed to higher health insurance rates for smokers has been on the rise since 2003. A 2014 survey found that 59 percent of Americans thought it would be unjustified to set higher insurance rates for significantly overweight people.
Health insurance in the United States - Important statistics
- 1. Overview of market
+Leading health insurance companies in the U.S. 2015, by direct premiums written- Market share of leading U.S. health insurance companies 2015, by direct premiums
- +Leading global life and health insurance (stock) companies 2015, by revenue
- +Leading U.S. life/health insurance writers in 2015, by direct premiums written
- +U.S. life insurers: income from net health insurance premiums 2000-2015
- +Total revenue of U.S. life and health insurance industry 2009-2015
- Combined US costs of health administration and private health insurance 1960-2015
- +Distribution of U.S. population with health insurance 2011-2015 by coverage
- 2. Demographics of the uninsured
- U.S. Americans without health insurance 2010-2016
- +Percentage of U.S. Americans without health insurance 1997-2016
- +Share of U.S. Americans without health insurance by age 2014-2016
- +Americans without health insurance 2017
- +Percentage of U.S. Americans without health insurance by ethnicity 2010-2016
- Change in uninsured population with the Health Care Law (Affordable Care Act), as of 2012
- +Lowest uninsured rates in U.S. metropolitan areas in 2015
- 3. Demographics of the insured
- +U.S. Americans with health insurance 1990-2015
- +U.S. Americans with public health insurance 1997-2016
- +Percentage of U.S. Americans with any health insurance 1990-2015
- +U.S. Americans with private health insurance 1997-2016
- +Total Medicaid enrollment 1966-2017
- Percentage of U.S. Americans covered by Medicare 1990-2015
- +Percentage of U.S. Americans covered by Medicaid 1990-2015
- 4. Public opinion on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- 5. Miscellaneous
- Percentage of U.S. Americans insured by military health care 1990-2015
- Survey on higher health insurance rates for smokers in the U.S.
- Survey on higher health insurance rates for significantly overweight people in U.S.
- +Satisfaction with most recent interaction with health insurance company U.S. 2015
- +People who use Blue Cross & Blue Shield as group or individual insurance in the U.S. 2016
- +People who use United Healthcare as group or individual insurance in the U.S. 2016
- +People who use Aetna as group or individual insurance in the U.S. 2016
- Health insurance home-office employees in the U.S. 1960-2015
- +Likelihood of customers sharing data with their health insurer U.S. 2017
- +Trustworthiness of health insurance start-ups according to consumers in the U.S. 2017
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