The new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates program from the US Census Bureau has released initial estimates of health insurance coverage for all counties. Keep in mind that these are experimental estimates based on survey data, population estimates and administrative records. Still, this is the only dataset with consistent estimates for all counties in the nation.
According to the Census Bureau, a person is considered uninsured if they are not covered by any type of health insurance for the entire year.
In Washington in 2013,
- 16 percent of the population under age 65, or 942,751 people, had no health insurance coverage compared to 17 percent in all of the U.S.;
- 5.9 percent of children under the age of 19, or 104,408 children, had no health insurance coverage compared to 7.5 percent of all children in the U.S..