tailieunhanh - Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2002

Part of the criticism on the A&O stemmed from a study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on costs associated with administering the crop insurance program. 19 In 2009, GAO concluded that the structure of A&O reimbursements “present[s] an opportunity to reduce government spending without compromising the crop insurance program’s safety net for farmers.” According to GAO, the method for calculating the A&O reimbursement should be redesigned to better reflect reasonable business expenses, in terms of dollars per policy, rather than crop prices. Using crop prices, GAO said, generated a “kind of windfall” for many insurance agencies/agents as insurance companies, using. | Health Insurance Coverage in the United States 2002__ Issued September 2003 Consumer Income P60-223 Highlights The share of the population without health insurance rose in 2002 the second consecutive annual increase. An estimated percent of the population or million people were without health insurance coverage during the entire year in 2002 up from percent in 2001 an increase of million people. The number and percentage of people covered by employment-based health insurance dropped in 2002 from percent to percent driving the overall decrease in health insurance coverage. The number and percentage of people covered by government health insurance programs rose in 2002 from percent to percent largely from an increase in the number and percentage of people covered by medicaid from percent to percent . The proportion of children who were uninsured did not change remaining at percent of all children or million in 2002. Although medicaid insured million people in poverty million other people in poverty had no health insurance in 2002 the latter group represented percent of the poverty population unchanged from 2001. Hispanics percent were less likely to be covered by health insurance than non-Hispanic Whites who Source of Estimates Statistical Accuracy The estimates in this report are based on data collected by the 2003 Current Population Survey CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement ASEC was formerly called the Annual Demographic Supplement or the March Supplement conducted by the . Census Bureau. As with all surveys the estimates may differ from the actual values because of sampling variation or other factors. All statements in this report have undergone statistical testing and all comparisons are significant at the 90-percent confidence level unless otherwise noted. For further information about the source and accuracy of the estimates go to apsd techdoc cps .