McBride T D
Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis 63121-4499, USA.
Health Care Financ Rev. 1997 Fall;19(1):145-60.
The number of persons without health insurance is increasing. Although research has focused on the uninsured poor and the duration of spells without health insurance, less attention has been paid to the dynamics of spells without health insurance among those in poverty. Here it is shown that the typical uninsured spell is longer for the uninsured poor (roughly 8.3 months) than for the uninsured non-poor (roughly 6 months) and that the duration of spells has increased over time. In addition, more than 40 percent of the uninsured at a point in time are chronically uninsured and poor or near-poor.
未参加医疗保险的人数正在增加。尽管研究主要关注未参保的贫困人口以及未参保的持续时间，但对于贫困人群中未参保情况的动态变化关注较少。研究表明，未参保的贫困人口的典型未参保时长（约8.3个月）比未参保的非贫困人口（约6个月）更长，且未参保时长随时间有所增加。此外，在某一时刻，超过40%的未参保者长期未参保且为贫困或接近贫困人群。
