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Health Insurance Coverage: 1996
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 Table H. Persons Near Poverty by Health Insurance Coverage Status
 and Type of Coverage: 1996

 (Numbers in thousands)

                                                     Percent

                                         Number        Dist.

 NEAR POVERTY

 All persons                             12,781        100.0

 Total covered                            9,069         71.0

 Private                                  5,207         40.7

 Employment-based                         3,639         28.5

 Government:

 Medicare                                 2,806         22.0

 Medicaid                                 3,225         25.2

 Military                                   388          3.0

 Not covered                              3,712         29.0

 Note: Persons near poverty are those with a family income-to-poverty

 ratio between 1.00 and 1.24. The estimates by type of coverage are not

 mutually exclusive; in other words, persons can be covered by more

 than one type of health insurance during the year.

 SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, March 1997 Current Population Survey.

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