Women and Health Insurance: Implications for Financing Preconception Health

Why focus on women? Health status by gender, 2004. Note. Includes women and men, ages 18–64. (From The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Kaiser Women's Health Survey, 2004.)

Insurance coverage patters differ between women and men. Health insurance coverage of adults ages 18–64, By fender, 2006. Note. Other includes Medicare, TRICARE, and other sources of coverage. (From the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the March 2007 Current Population Survey, US Census Bureau.)

Differences in health coverage rates of women by race/ethnicity are significant. Health insurance coverage of women ages 18–64 by race, 2006. Note. Includes women ages 18–64. Other includes Medicare, CHAMPUS, and other sources of coverage. (From the Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the March 2006 Current Population Survey, US Census Bureau.)

Uninsured women: Who is at risk? (From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Urban Institute tabulations of 2007 ASEC Supplement to the Current Population Survey. The Federal Poverty Threshold for a family of 3 in 2006 was $16,277.

Uninsured rates vary widely between the states. Uninsured rates among nonelderly women by state, 2005–2006. (From the Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the March 2006 and 200 Current Population Survey, US Census Bureau.

Improving reach of coverage: covering the uninsured. Note. Other includes Medicare, CHAMPUS, and other sources of coverage. (From the Kaiser Family Foundation of the March 2007 Current Population Survey, US Census Bureau.