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09/10/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/10/2024 08:09

Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2023

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Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2023

September 10, 2024

Author:

Katherine Keisler-Starkey and Lisa N. Bunch

Report Number: P60-284

Introduction

This report presents statistics on health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

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Highlights

In 2023, most people, 92.0 percent or 305.2 million, had health insurance, either for some or all of the year.
In 2023, private health insurance coverage continued to be more prevalent than public coverage, at 65.4 percent and 36.3 percent, respectively.
Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employment-based insurance was the most common, covering 53.7 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year, followed by Medicaid (18.9 percent), Medicare (18.9 percent), direct-purchase coverage (10.2 percent), TRICARE (2.6 percent), and VA and CHAMPVA coverage (1.0 percent).
While the private coverage rate was statistically unchanged between 2022 and 2023, the employment-based coverage rate declined by 0.7 percentage points to 53.7 percent in 2023. At the same time, the rate of direct-purchase coverage increased by 0.3 percentage points to 10.2 percent in 2023.
The 2023 public coverage rate was not statistically different from the rate in 2022. Whereas, Medicare coverage increased by 0.2 percentage points to cover 18.9 percent of people.
The uninsured rate for children under the age of 19 increased by 0.5 percentage points to 5.8 percent between 2022 and 2023.

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