The Uninsured Population in Texas: Understanding Coverage Needs and the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act
Additional Tables
| Table A1: Demographics of Adults in Texas, by Insurance Coverage | |||
| Uninsured | Insured | ||
| Employer | Medicaid | ||
| Income | |||
| <100% FPL | 40% | 5%* | 51% |
| 100-400% FPL | 54% | 39%* | 42% |
| >400% FPL | 6% | 56%* | — |
| Family Work Status | |||
| Working Family | 69% | 92%* | 23%* |
| Non-Working Family | 31% | 8%* | 77%* |
| Age | |||
| 19-25 | 16% | 14% | — |
| 26-34 | 24% | 19% | — |
| 35-44 | 29% | 22% | 26% |
| 19-44 | 69% | 55%* | 44%* |
| 45-64 | 31% | 45%* | 56%* |
| Health Status | |||
| Ongoing Health Condition | 33% | 33% | 74%* |
| No Ongoing Health Condition | 66% | 67% | 25%* |
| Fair or Poor Health Status | |||
| Excellent/Very Good/Good | 59% | 89%* | 33%* |
| Fair or Poor | 40% | 11%* | 67%* |
| Race | |||
| White, Non-Hispanic | 30% | 58%* | 28% |
| Hispanic | 56% | 24%* | 50% |
| Black, Non-Hispanic | 11% | 10% | 15% |
| Citizenship | |||
| Citizen | 62% | 94%* | 86%* |
| Non-Citizen | 38% | 6%* | — |
| Notes: Don’t Know and Refused responses not shown. “–“: Estimates with relative standard errors greater than 30% or sample size too small for analysis are not provided. * Estimate statistically significantly different from uninsured estimate at the 95% confidence level. Source: 2013 Kaiser Survey of Low-Income Americans and the ACA. |
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| Table A2: History of Uninsurance and Attempts to Gain Coverage Among Currently Uninsured Adults in Texas, by Income | ||||
| All | By Income | |||
| <100% FPL | 100-400% FPL | |||
| Length of Time Uninsured | ||||
| < 3 months | 6% | — | 6% | |
| 3 Months to Less than a Year | 11% | 9% | 11% | |
| 1 Year to 5 years | 29% | 22% | 33%^ | |
| 5 Years or More | 22% | 18% | 25% | |
| Have Never Had Coverage | 31% | 44% | 24%^ | |
| Attempts to Gain Coverage | ||||
| Applied for Medicaid in past 5 years | 22% | 25% | 20% | |
| Applied for Medicaid but did not enroll | 16% | 16% | 15% | |
| Applied for Medicaid but told ineligible | 15% | 13% | 15% | |
| Tried to purchase nongroup coverage in past 5 years | 15% | 12% | 16% | |
| Tried to purchase nongroup coverage but did not purchase policy | 11% | 8% | 13% | |
| Tried to purchase nongroup coverage but too expensive | 9% | 6% | 11% | |
| NOTES: Don’t Know and Refused responses not shown. “–“: Estimates with relative standard errors greater than 30% or sample size too small for analysis are not provided. NA: Not applicable. Estimates not shown for >400% as estimates do not meet criteria for statistical reliability. ^ Estimate statistically significantly different from <100% FPL estimate at the 95% confidence level. SOURCE: 2013 Kaiser Survey of Low-Income Americans and the ACA. |
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