Health Insurance Coverage After Welfare

• DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.19.1.175
• Publication Date: 2003-12-08T18:51:26Z
• Authors: Bowen Garrett; John Holahan
• Keywords: Adult; Employment; Medically Uninsured; Medicaid; Medical Indigency; 1. No poverty; Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Insurance Coverage; United States; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Health Care Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; 8. Economic growth; Humans; Female; Child; Poverty; Women, Working

This DataWatch examines the health insurance coverage of former welfare recipients who left between January 1995 and mid-1997, using data from 1997 National Survey America's Families. Although majority women were working, only 33 percent these obtained through their jobs. Rates uninsurance increase with number months since leaving declines in Medicaid coverage. A year or more after welfare, 49 30 children uninsured.