Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Heads Up - Latest Census Figures on Uninsured to Be Released Next Tuesday

Release Tues, Aug 28 at 10 AM

By Tarren R. Bragdon

Categories: How Many Uninsured?

Recently the US Census Bureau announced that they will be releasing the 2006 uninsured figures on Tuesday, August 28 at 10 AM (EDT). As health care analysts, we should be prepared to discuss the latest figures and how they relate to all the talk about universal health care, health insurance regulation, etc.

Also next week, Census will be revising state-level figures for private and public health coverage and uninsured for 1995 through 2003, correcting the overreporting of the number of uninsured revealed in March of this year. These revised figures will allow all of us to do better analysis on how uninsured (and private coverage) rates for kids and adults have changed over the last decade.