More than 27 million nonelderly U.S. adults were uninsured at the beginning of 2015, with 15 million of those uninsured being men, according to KFG.com.
Here are 17 more statistics on uninsured men in the United States.
• An estimated 44 percent are eligible for financial aid under the Affordable Care Act.
• In 2014, of the nearly 95 million nonelderly noninsured men in the United States, 67 percent were covered by employer-based or private coverage, 18 percent were covered by Medicaid or other public coverage and 16 percent were uninsured.
• Texas had the highest uninsured rate for men (25 percent), compared to Massachusetts (6 percent), which had the lowest rate of uninsured men.
• Forty-five percent are young adults between ages 19 and 35. Of this figure, nearly 75 percent are childless.
• Seventy-six percent live in a household with at least one full-time worker.
• More than half of uninsured men have family income at or below 200 percent the federal poverty level.
• More than half (55 percent) were men of color, despite 37 percent of nonelderly men in the United States being men of color.
• Merely 13 percent reported having a usual source of care.
• Thirty-two percent reported having issues paying medical bills, compared to 32 percent of nonelderly men with Medicaid and 10 percent of nonelderly men with private coverage.
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