Women’s Health Insurance Costs and Experiences

This report is part of the Join Project on Women’s Health Care Policy Research of the Women’s Research and Education Institute and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The project was funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation, as part of the Kaiser Health Reform Project. This report focuses on health insurance coverage and expenditures for reproductive and preventive services among women of childbearing
age (age 15 to 44). It provides the latest and most comprehensive measures of’ the adequacy of women’s health insurance coverage for all health care services and for reproductive and preventive health services in particular. Measurements of the adequacy of health insurance coverage used in this report include: 1) the percent of total expenditures covered by health insurance; 2) the level of out-of-pocket expenditures;
and 3) out-of-pocket expenditures in relation to income.