Health Insurance Status

This site provides information about health insurance coverage among Wisconsin residents, based on estimates from the Wisconsin Family Health Survey.   Topics include the number and percent without health insurance; current insurance status and insurance status over the past year; and kinds of health insurance coverage (public and private).

Links are also provided to other Family Health Survey reports, to Wisconsin Medicaid statistics, and to reports on health insurance coverage from previous years.

Local Data on Poverty Status and Health Insurance Coverage in Wisconsin. Web tables for counties, regions, and the state that provide estimates of the number and percent of the population by poverty status, health insurance coverage over the past year, and type of health insurance.

Wisconsin Health Insurance Coverage, 2009 (annual report) (October 2010) (PDF, 658 KB)

Badgercare Plus Lessened the Recession's Effects on Insurance Coverage in Wisconsin (October 2010) (PDF, 19 KB)

The Wisconsin Family Health Survey: A study of population health (webcast, help).  This webcast from October 25, 2007 discusses how the Family Health Survey is conducted, the topic areas it covers, and issues involved in using the data. Presenters are from the Bureau of Health Information and Policy, and the University of Wisconsin Survey Center.

Slides from the webcast (PDF, 334 KB)

Reports from Previous Years

Other Family Health Survey Reports

Medicaid statistics

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Last Revised:  February 24, 2012