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Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2022

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Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2022

September 12, 2023
Written by:
Katherine Keisler-Starkey, Lisa N. Bunch, and Rachel A. Lindstrom
Report Number P60-281

Introduction

This report presents statistics on health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

Highlights

  • More people were insured in 2022 than 2021. In 2022, 92.1 percent of people, or 304.0 million, had health insurance at some point during the year, representing an increase in the insured rate and number of insured from 2021 (91.7 percent or 300.9 million).
  • In 2022, private health insurance coverage continued to be more prevalent than public coverage, at 65.6 percent and 36.1 percent, respectively.
  • Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employment-based insurance was the most common, covering 54.5 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year, followed by Medicaid (18.8 percent), Medicare (18.7 percent), direct-purchase coverage (9.9 percent), TRICARE (2.4 percent), and VA and CHAMPVA coverage (1.0 percent).
  • Between 2021 and 2022, the rate of Medicare coverage increased by 0.3 percentage points to cover 18.7 percent of people.
  • The uninsured rate among working-age adults aged 19 to 64 decreased 0.8 percentage points to 10.8 percent between 2021 and 2022, driven in part by a decrease in uninsured rates for workers.

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Information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions is available at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar23.pdf [PDF - <1.0 MB].

The Census Bureau reviewed these data and associated products for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release: Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number: CBDRB-FY23-0432.

To further protect respondent privacy, all estimates in this report have undergone additional rounding. As a result, this year's estimates may differ from previous publications and details may not sum to totals. All comparative statements have undergone statistical testing and are statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level unless otherwise noted.

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