Facts and Figures

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Source: Georgia Department of Community Health, August 27, 2001 (http://www.communityhealth.state.ga.us/).

Georgia's uninsured:

• Earn less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($34,100 per year for a family of four).
• Live in families where the main wage earner works for a business with less than 100 employees.
• Work in agriculture, construction or service industries.
• Live in a rural county.
• Are adults over 25 years of age.
• Are more than likely a minority, especially Latino.

What does it mean to be uninsured?

• Georgia's uninsured are more likely to use the emergency room or hospital-based clinics as a main source of medical care.
• They are more likely to visit emergency rooms or stay in the hospital for asthma and other chronic conditions.
• Uninsured adults are 4.7 times less likely to have had their blood pressure checked within the last two years.
• Uninsured women are 3.7 times less likely to have had a mammogram in the past two years.
• Uninsured children are half as likely to have seen a doctor in the past two weeks.
• Uninsured children are 4.5 times more likely to have missed two or more days of school during a two-week period.

Demographic breakdown

• 19 percent (1.2 million) of Georgians under age 65 are uninsured, compared to the national average of 18 percent.
• Ages:
  23 percent (274,785) of the uninsured are under age 18
  20 percent (238,731) are age 18-24
  36 percent (448,111) are age 25 to 44
  21 percent (257,172) are age 45 to 64
• 53 percent of uninsured Georgians had incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($34,100 per year for a family of four).
• People in families earning less than $10,000 annually accounted for 18 percent of Georgia's uninsured.
• One out of three Georgians with family incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level is uninsured.
• Latinos with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level are almost twice as likely to be uninsured as other Georgians.
• Nearly four out of five uninsured adults have been uninsured for over a year.

Employment and the Uninsured

• 68 percent (916,524) of Georgians without health insurance live in families headed by full-time, full-year workers.
• Almost one out of every five households headed by a full-time worker is uninsured. One out of every three households headed by a part-time worker is uninsured. Eight percent of Georgians with health insurance obtain coverage through an employer.
• 51 percent of uninsured Georgians live in families where the head of household works for a business with less than 100 employees.
• Twenty-six percent of Georgia's uninsured adults are unemployed.
• Some 24 percent of Georgia's uninsured work in the wholesale/retail industry, and 17 percent work in manufacturing. Sixteen percent work in service, and 16 percent work in agriculture and construction.