TABLE 1—
Reasons That Patients Did Not Want to Use Health Insurance at a US Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic: 2013
| Total No. Responses, No. (%) | Private Insurance, No. (%) | Government Insurance,a No. (%) | Parents’ Insurance, No. (%) | |
| Privacy concerns | ||||
| Do not want insurance company to know | 179 (23.0) | 102 (31.9) | 40 (20.9) | 37 (13.9) |
| Insurance might send records home | 86 (11.1) | 27 (8.4) | 19 (9.9) | 40 (15.0) |
| Do not want parents, spouse, or significant other to know | 129 (16.6) | 30 (9.4) | 18 (9.4) | 81 (30.3) |
| Usual doctor might send records home | 32 (4.1) | 16 (5.0) | 7 (3.7) | 9 (3.4) |
| Cost concerns | ||||
| Cannot afford the copayment/deductible | 138 (17.7) | 57 (17.8) | 41 (21.5) | 40 (15.0) |
| Insurance will not cover this visit | 104 (13.4) | 48 (15.0) | 27 (14.1) | 29 (7.9) |
| Other | 110 (14.1) | 40 (12.5) | 39 (20.4) | 31 (11.6) |
Note. Patients were those insured who said that they were not willing to use their insurance at the visit (n = 680). Respondents could choose > 1 response.
a
Includes Medicaid, Medicare, and similar government programs.