To your health (insurance).More Americans are getting coverage The trend suggests that more African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. are getting health insurance at work. The U.S. Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census reports that since 1987 employment-based health insurance for blacks rose from 44.4% to 51.7%, while other groups either showed very minimal, or no change, over the past decade. Overall, the number of people living without health insurance in 1999 declined by 1.7 million from 1998. This drop was the first year-to-year decline since the bureau started tracking health insurance trends in 1987. Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. J. Mills, author of the bureau's Health Insurance Coverage: 1999, credits the turnaround Turnaround A situation where a company that has had poor performance for an extended period of time experiences a positive reversal. Notes: A speculator may profit from a turnaround if he or she accurately anticipates the improvement of a poorly performing company. to two main occurrences: "The driving force behind the improvement (1998 to 1999) was due to the increase in the likelihood of people having employment-based health insurance," Mills explains. "[Also,] we added a question in 1999; we asked people who would have fallen into the category of [having] no insurance if they, in fact, had no coverage. We did not ask this question in previous years and it may have added to the increase." A review of the bureau's figures over the past 10 years shows that while employment-based health insurance increased, government-sponsored health insurance (which includes Medicaid Medicaid, national health insurance program in the United States for low-income persons; established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. , Medicare Medicare, national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over and the disabled. It was established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and is now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. , and military healthcare) has declined for African Americans.
Percentage of population covered by private, employment-based insurance
1987 1990 1996 1997 1998 1999
Hispanic 43.7 41.7 40.9 41.6 42.0 43.3
White 63.2 63.2 63.6 63.4 64.4 64.9
Black 44.4 43.9 47.8 49.4 48.9 51.7
All Races 62.1 60.4 61.2 61.4 62.0 62.8
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March 1988-2000
Note: Table made from bar graph.
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