Americans with asthma are more likely to have health insurance than Americans without it. Yet insurance does not remove the cost of asthma care: children and adults with asthma, insured or not, report being unable to afford their asthma medicine or a visit to a primary care doctor or asthma specialist. Coverage reduces those barriers, but does not eliminate them.
Who is covered
Among people with asthma, more children than adults had health insurance for the whole year.
| Full-year coverage, people with active asthma | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|
| Children | Arizona, 89.3% | Massachusetts, 99.9% |
| Adults | Texas, 77.8% | District of Columbia, 96.7% |
Who struggles with cost
- Adults aged 18 to 64 report cost barriers more often than children or adults 65 and older.
- At every age, people with no insurance or only part-year coverage report cost barriers more often than people covered all year.
Share of people with active asthma reporting cost barriers, by age and insurance coverage. Asthma Call-back Survey, 20 areas, 2006–2010 (five-year averages). Credit: CDC.
Coverage by area
Full-year coverage among people with active asthma, from CDC's Asthma Call-back Survey, 2006–2010:
| Area | Children | Adults 18–64 |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 89.3% | 88.7% |
| California | 98.0% | 83.5% |
| Connecticut | 98.6% | 90.4% |
| District of Columbia | 97.4% | 96.7% |
| Georgia | 97.0% | 81.8% |
| Hawaii | 97.0% | 93.3% |
| Indiana | 96.9% | 84.0% |
| Iowa | 98.8% | 89.7% |
| Kansas | 96.8% | 85.4% |
| Maine | 96.7% | 89.8% |
| Maryland | 95.9% | 90.8% |
| Massachusetts | 99.9% | 94.6% |
| Michigan | 99.4% | 85.1% |
| Montana | 95.8% | 79.1% |
| Nebraska | 96.4% | 83.9% |
| New York | 97.5% | 89.2% |
| Oregon | 93.8% | 82.7% |
| Texas | 90.7% | 77.8% |
| Vermont | 98.6% | 90.0% |
| Wisconsin | 98.9% | 90.6% |
About the program
CDC's National Asthma Control Program was created in 1999 to help the millions of Americans with asthma gain control of it. It tracks asthma nationally and funds states to improve their own tracking and direct their efforts where they are most needed.
Sources
Based on "AsthmaStats: Insurance Coverage and Barriers to Care for People with Asthma," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a work of the United States government in the public domain.
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain) · Adapted from www.cdc.gov
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