Health Insurance, Access, and Health Status of Nonelderly Adults

at the time of the survey, a rate essentially unchanged from 1997. For low-income adults, rates of employer-sponsored coverage increased from 39 percent in 1997 to 42 percent in 1999. Low-income adults in Alabama, Colorado, and Massachusetts saw their uninsurance rates fall the most. In Massachusetts, this decline was driven by growth in Medicaid coverage, while in Alabama and Colorado there was greater growth in employersponsored and other coverage. Nationally, there were no dramatic changes in access to care or health status for adults overall or for higher-income adults. Low-income adults did, however, experience some gains in access-to-care measures, both nationally and within individual states. Health Insurance, Access, and Health Status of Nonelderly Adults Findings from the National Survey of America’s Families