National Healthcare Disparities Report 2004: Table 1.3

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National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2004

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Table 1.3. Availability of measures of access to health care with comparable data for 2000 and 2001 for different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups

Measure	Data Source	Black	Hispanic	Asian or API	AI/AN	Poor
People under 65 with health insurance	NHIS	√	√	√	√	√
People under 65 with public health insurance only	NHIS	√	√	√	√	√
People under 65 with any private health insurance	NHIS	√	√	√	√	√
People 65 and over with any private health insurance	NHIS	√	√	√		√
People uninsured all year	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People with any period of uninsurance during the year	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People with any period of public insurance during the year	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People who have a specific source of ongoing care	NHIS	√	√	√	√	√
People in fair or poor health with a specific source of ongoing care	NHIS	√	√	√		√
People with a hospital, emergency room, or clinic as source of ongoing care	NHIS	√	√	√	√	√
People without a usual source of care who indicate a financial or insurance reason for not having a source of care	MEPS	√	√			√
People who have a usual primary care provider	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
Families that experience difficulties or delays in obtaining health care or do not receive needed care	MEPS	√	√	√		√
Families that experience difficulties or delays in obtaining health care due to financial or insurance reasons	MEPS	√	√			√
Families that did not receive a doctor's care or prescription medications because the family needed the money	MEPS	√	√			√
Families not very satisfied that they can get health care if they need it	MEPS	√	√	√		√
People who sometimes or never get appointments for routine care as soon as wanted	MEPS	√	√	√		√
People who sometimes or never get care for illness or injury as soon as wanted	MEPS	√	√			√
People with provider who has office hours nights or weekends	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People with difficulty getting appointments on short notice	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People with difficulty contacting provider over the telephone	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
Adults without problems getting referral to a specialist in past year	MEPS	√	√			√
People not very satisfied with professional staff at provider's office	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People who usually wait over 30 minutes before seeing provider	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
People with provider who usually asks about medications and treatments other doctors may give	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
Adults whose providers sometimes or never listened carefully to them	MEPS	√	√	√		√
Adults whose providers sometimes or never explained things in a way they could understand	MEPS	√	√	√		√
Adults whose providers sometimes or never showed respect for what they had to say	MEPS	√	√	√		√
People not satisfied with quality of care received from provider	MEPS	√	√	√	√	√
Adults whose providers sometimes or never spent enough time with them	MEPS	√	√	√		√
Adults who rate their health care in the past year <7 on a scale from 0 to 10	MEPS	√	√	√		√

√ Indicates that reliable data on measure are available for this group and included in summary across measures of access for this group.
Key: API=Asian or Pacific Islander; AI/AN=American Indian or Alaska Native; Poor=Individuals with household incomes <100% of Federal poverty thresholds.

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