Exhibit 3.

Percent Uninsured by Federal Medicaid Eligibility Categories, Income, Health, and Disability; Adults Aged 25–61, 2000–2005

	Federal categories	Not federal categories	Share of population
Disability
	10.6%	13.9%	4.5%
All	(.89%)	(.87%)	(.12%)
	12.8%	25.6%	1.6%
< 125% FPL	(1.30%)	(4.00%)	(.07%)
	8.8%	11.1%	2.8%
> 125% FPL	(.84%)	(1.02%)	(.09%)
Health condition
	11.0%	11.1%	30.5%
All	(.42%)	(.45%)	(.32%)
	19.9%	37.2%	4.4%
< 125% FPL	(.83%)	(2.04%)	(.14%)
	8.6%	9.0%	26.1%
> 125% FPL	(.38%)	(.39%)	(.31%)
No disability or health condition
	16.1%	16.8%	6 8.0%
All	(.55%)	(.48%)	(.33%)
	38.3%	53.7%	7.6%
< 125% FPL	(1.18%)	(1.59%)	(.21%)
	12.3%	14.0%	60.4%
> 125% FPL	(.48%)	(.42%)	(.37%)

Source: Authors’ tabulations of MEPS data (standard errors in parentheses).

FPL: Federal Poverty Level.

Percent uninsured: Percent of person-years with no health insurance for whole year.

Disability and health condition categories are not mutually exclusive.

Disability: Persistent use of assistive devices, persistent upper body disability, lower body disability, cognitive impairment, blindness, or major hearing impairment.

Health condition: Ever diagnosed with asthma, hypertension, heart disease, angina, heart attack, stroke, pulmonary disease, or diabetes.

Federal Medicaid eligibility categories: blind; parent of child 18 or under; or zero wages and not working due to disability and income from SSI, SSDI, VA pension, and/or workers’ compensation.