Abstract
This brief focuses on children’s loss of private health insurance after a parent left his or her job voluntarily or involuntarily between May 2008 and the end of 2012. Author Kristin Smith reports that more than one in four privately insured children had a parent leave employment voluntarily or involuntarily between 2008 and 2012. Within eighteen months after a parent transitioned out of employment, 19 percent of privately insured children lost their private health insurance; of this 19 percent, 11 percent moved to public health insurance and 8 percent became uninsured. Children living in the highest income quintile more often transitioned to no insurance, while children living in the lowest income quintile more often transitioned to public health insurance. Hispanic children were more likely to transition to public health insurance than to become uninsured. Children in rural and urban areas were equally likely to have a parent leave employment; they were also equally likely either to become uninsured or to gain public health insurance.
Publication Date
Spring 5-24-2016
Series
National Issue Brief No.99
Publisher
Durham, N.H. : Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Smith, Kristin, "After a Parent Left Employment, One in Five Children Lost Private Insurance" (2016). The Carsey School of Public Policy at the Scholars' Repository. 272.
https://scholars.unh.edu/carsey/272
Rights
Copyright 2016. Carsey School of Public Policy. These materials may be used for the purposes of research, teaching, and private study. For all other uses, contact the copyright holder.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.34051/p/2020.262