STATISTICAL BRIEF #234 Highlights

the 97.7 million non-elderly, full time workers in the U.S. had private insurance, 1.9 percent had public insurance, and 12.8 percent were uninsured for the entire year. Workers living in high income families and workers employed in large firms had the highest rates of private insurance coverage (95.7 percent and 95.9 percent, respectively). Workers living in poor/near poor families were the least likely to have private insurance (45.3 percent), the most likely to have public insurance (13.9 percent), and the most likely to be uninsured (40.8 percent). Less than two-thirds of Hispanic workers (62.2 percent) and workers with a less than high school education (57.7 percent) had private insurance and about one-third of each group was uninsured (32.6 percent and 36.0 percent, respectively). Among industry groups, workers employed in natural resources/mining/ construction and leisure/hospitality/other services were least likely to have private insurance and most likely to be uninsured