Table 2.

Percentage distribution of type of health insurance, continuity of coverage and gaps in coverage, 2012 and 2015

	2012	2015a	p value
Unweighted N	4593	3407
Type of health insurance
Uninsured	18.9	11.5	0.000
Private	66.1	69.5	0.033
Obtained through the exchange	na	5.3
Medicaid	14.2	18.2	0.001
Other	0.8	0.8	0.939
Insured all of last 6 months	77.1	83.4	0.000
Among those without insurance in any of last 6 months
Unweighted N	1036	506
How long without insurance (months)
1	7.7	15.9	0.002
2	5.5	5.7	0.888
3	7.8	9.4	0.423
4	6.7	6.6	0.954
5	2.6	7.2	0.011
6	69.7	55.1	0.000

na = not applicable.

^aSimple logistic regression using year as the independent variable was used to assess differences between the two samples.