34

15

38

68

5

16

42

20

0

25

50

75

100

Total under age

65

Under 200% of

poverty

200%–399% of

poverty

400% or more of

poverty

Any time uninsured More than one year uninsured

Insurance Instability and Churning38 Percent of Nonelderly People – 85 Million –

Were Uninsured over the Four-Year Period 1996–1999

Source: P. F. Short, D. R. Graefe, and C. Schoen, Churn, Churn, Churn: How Instability of Health Insurance Shapes America’s Uninsured Problem, The Commonwealth Fund, November 2003.

Percent of population under age 65