Brief Health Insurance Coverage for Women of Reproductive Age, 2013–2016
Stacey McMorrow, Emily M. Johnston, Tyler Thomas, Ruby Steedle
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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. We find that the uninsurance rate among women of reproductive age fell from 20.3 percent in 2013 to 11.6 percent in 2016 and that women of all ages, family structures, races and ethnicities, citizenship status, educational attainment, employment status, and incomes gained coverage over this period. 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.

Research and Evidence Health Policy
Expertise Health Care Coverage, Costs, and Access Modeling Federal and State Health System Reform Reproductive and Maternal Health
Tags Health insurance Federal health care reform Women and girls Sexual and reproductive health
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