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