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A Profile of Older Americans: 2011
Health Insurance Coverage
In 2010, almost all (93.1%) non-institutionalized persons 65+ were covered by Medicare. Medicare covers mostly acute care services and requires beneficiaries to pay part of the cost, leaving about half of health spending to be covered by other sources. About 58% had some type of private health insurance. Over 8% had military-based health insurance and 9% of the non-institutionalized elderly were covered by Medicaid. Less than 1% did not have coverage of some kind. About 86% of non-institutionalized Medicare beneficiaries in 2009 had some type of supplementary coverage. Among Medicare beneficiaries residing in nursing homes, almost half (46%) were covered by Medicaid.
Figure 8:
Note: Figure 8 data is for the non-institutionalized elderly. A person can be represented in more than one category. (Source: “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010,” P60 239, issued September, 2011, by the U.S. Census Bureau. Medicare beneficiary data is from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey retrieved from the NCHS Health Data Interactive data warehouse)
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