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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2022 Apr 1;60(4):311–315. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001693

Table 2.

Prevalence of Primary Health Insurance Type by Gender Identity

Transgender Individuals Cisgender Men Cisgender Women
All Adults n = 1,106 n = 108,097 n = 146,933
n % n % n %
 No insurance 192 23.3 (18.5, 28.8) 12959 16.1 (15.6, 16.6) 14198 12.8 (12.4, 13.2)
 Private insurance 500 48.7 (42.8, 54.6) 60895 59.5 (58.9, 60.1) 74988 55.7 (55.2, 56.2)
 Public insurance 383 24.6 (20.0, 29.9) 32146 21.8 (21.4, 22.3) 55119 29.3 (28.8, 29.7)
Non-Disabled, Non-Elderly n = 496 n = 58,534 n = 68,439
n % n % n %
 No insurance 99 26.0 (19.1, 34.2) 8,411 17.4 (16.7, 18.0) 8,060 14.0 (13.5, 14.6)
 Private insurance 317 57.8 (49.1, 66.1) 45,099 73.1 (72.4, 73.8) 52,652 72.7 (72.0, 73.4)
 Public insurance 67 12.4 (7.1, 21.1) 3,958 7.1 (6.7, 7.6) 6,913 11.4 (10.9, 11.9)
Medicare Eligible n = 610 n = 49,563 n =78,494
n % n % n %
 No insurance 93 19.8 (14.0, 27.1) 4,548 13.6 (12.9, 14.4) 6,138 11.1 (10.6,11.6)
 Private insurance 183 36.7 (29.1, 45.2) 15,796 34.2 (33.4, 35.1) 22,336 31.4 (30.7, 32.1)
 Public insurance 316 40.4 (33.3, 47.9) 28,188 49.3 (48.4, 50.2) 48,205 54.7 (54.0, 55.4)
Under 250% FPL n = 522 n = 33,571 n = 55,196
n % n % n %
 No insurance 108 28.4 (21.1, 36.9) 6,793 26.1 (25.1, 27.1) 8,378 19.4 (18.6, 20.1)
 Private insurance 175 38.5 (29.9, 47.9) 13,023 41.6 (40.5, 42.6) 18,188 37.7 (36.8, 38.6)
 Public insurance 228 31.9 (24.3, 39.9) 13,016 29.8 (28.8, 30.7) 27,598 40.9 (40.0, 41.7)

Note: Unknown/refused categories are not included due to small cell sizes; thus number do not sum to total n. Data are weighted.