Table 3.
Factor | Survivors v Siblings |
Survivors by Insurance Status |
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Survivors |
Siblings |
P‡ | Insured Survivors |
Uninsured Survivors |
P§ | Multivariable Odds Ratios: Insured v Uninsured Survivors (reference)* |
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No. | Weighted %† | No. | Weighted %† | No. | Weighted %† | No. | Weighted %† | Odds Ratio | 95% CI | P | |||
Plan coverage | |||||||||||||
Primary care | 639 | 94.6 | 182 | 90.4 | .04 | 569 | 94.9 | 70 | 91.8 | .33 | 1.59 | 0.52 to 4.81 | .41 |
Acute, cancer-specific care | 579 | 86.0 | 156 | 80.9 | .09 | 517 | 86.3 | 62 | 83.3 | .53 | 1.43 | 0.66 to 3.06 | .36 |
Acute, non–cancer-specific care | 539 | 81.3 | 158 | 80.4 | .80 | 485 | 82.0 | 54 | 74.8 | .17 | 1.80 | 0.94 to 3.46 | .08 |
Dental care | 454 | 67.5 | 128 | 63.7 | .34 | 395 | 66.2 | 59 | 79.1 | .04 | 0.52 | 0.26 to 1.02 | .06 |
Vision care | 408 | 60.7 | 102 | 49.3 | .01 | 359 | 60.1 | 49 | 65.3 | .44 | 0.86 | 0.48 to 1.54 | .62 |
Mental health care | 271 | 40.2 | 73 | 40.5 | .96 | 239 | 39.4 | 32 | 47.7 | .22 | 0.82 | 0.47 to 1.43 | .49 |
Plan features | |||||||||||||
No waiting period before coverage begins | 533 | 79.0 | 140 | 69.7 | .01 | 471 | 78.6 | 62 | 82.0 | .55 | 1.00 | 0.48 to 2.06 | .99 |
Choice of primary care physician | 518 | 78.3 | 136 | 69.4 | .01 | 465 | 78.8 | 53 | 74.2 | .41 | 1.29 | 0.67 to 2.49 | .45 |
No coverage limits (lifetime or annual) | 484 | 72.3 | 135 | 67.2 | .19 | 430 | 72.1 | 54 | 74.0 | .76 | 0.95 | 0.50 to 1.82 | .88 |
Ability to self-refer | 376 | 56.7 | 102 | 51.1 | .19 | 333 | 55.8 | 43 | 64.6 | .19 | 0.74 | 0.41 to 1.32 | .30 |
Plan cost | |||||||||||||
Affordable premiums | 594 | 88.1 | 169 | 83.7 | .13 | 523 | 87.4 | 71 | 94.2 | .15 | 0.48 | 0.14 to 1.62 | .24 |
No added expense due to pre-existing conditions | 590 | 87.4 | 141 | 68.9 | < .001 | 523 | 87.2 | 67 | 88.8 | .73 | 1.00 | 0.42 to 2.42 | .99 |
Low deductible | 496 | 73.4 | 135 | 64.5 | .02 | 438 | 72.6 | 58 | 80.3 | .20 | 0.68 | 0.35 to 1.34 | .26 |
Low co-pay | 497 | 72.9 | 136 | 66.3 | .09 | 437 | 72.2 | 60 | 79.6 | .22 | 0.69 | 0.34 to 1.36 | .28 |
Models adjusted for current age, sex, marital status, and chronic disease.
Percentages are weighted to reflect the population age distribution of the full Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort.
P value calculated for survivors and siblings, comparing those who indicate these features as “very important” with those rating the features as “somewhat important” to “not at all important.”
P value comparing insured survivors with uninsured survivors.