Disabled Medicare beneficiaries under age 65 with delayed care due to cost in the past year, by ethnicity, 2002a |
| Population group | Total | Non-Hispanic | Hispanic (all races) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All races | White | Black | |||||||||
| Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | ||
| Total | Total | 22.7 | 1.6 | 23.4 | 1.7 | 25.8 | 2.0 | 12.7 | 2.4 | 17.0 | 3.9 |
| Gender | Male | 19.2 | 1.9 | 20.1 | 2.1 | 22.4 | 2.8 | * | * | * | * |
| Female | 26.9 | 2.5 | 27.1 | 2.7 | 29.8 | 3.2 | 15.6 | 4.1 | * | * | |
| Incomeb | Negative or poor | 19.9 | 2.1 | 20.9 | 2.3 | 25.3 | 3.1 | 10.4 | 2.9 | 13.5 | 4.0 |
| Near poor/low | 29.1 | 3.0 | 29.5 | 3.2 | 31.6 | 3.8 | 20.5 | 6.0 | * | * | |
| Middle | 22.9 | 4.3 | 23.4 | 4.4 | 24.3 | 5.1 | * | * | * | * | |
| High | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | |
| Health insurance | Medicare and private | 18.3 | 1.8 | 18.5 | 2.0 | 22.7 | 2.6 | 9.5 | 2.3 | 17.1 | 4.5 |
| Medicare and Medicaid | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | |
| Medicare HMO | 20.2 | 2.8 | 21.2 | 3.1 | 23.1 | 3.7 | * | * | * | * | |
| Medicare fee-for-service only | 38.4 | 4.7 | 38.6 | 4.9 | 37.4 | 5.4 | * | * | * | * | |
| Residence location | MSA | 20.9 | 1.8 | 22.0 | 2.0 | 24.7 | 2.4 | 12.1 | 2.8 | 13.9 | 3.7 |
| Non-MSA | 26.3 | 3.1 | 25.6 | 2.9 | 26.8 | 3.4 | 15.3 | 3.5 | * | * | |
| Functional limitations | No limitations | 17.0 | 2.5 | 17.2 | 2.5 | 21.1 | 3.4 | * | * | * | * |
| At least 1 IADL/ADL | 26.2 | 2.9 | 25.6 | 3.0 | 28.9 | 3.5 | 16.5 | 4.5 | * | * | |
| 1-2 ADLs | 16.0 | 2.1 | 17.3 | 2.4 | 17.5 | 2.5 | * | * | * | * | |
| 3 or more ADLs | 34.0 | 4.4 | 36.1 | 4.9 | 38.0 | 5.4 | * | * | * | * | |
| At least 1 IADL/ADL | 24.5 | 2.0 | 25.3 | 2.1 | 27.1 | 2.4 | 16.0 | 3.6 | 17.4 | 4.7 | |
a Full year disabled community residents under age 65.
b Negative or poor refers to incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.
* Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.
Key: MSA: Metropolitan Statistical Area; IADLs: Instrumental activities of daily living; ADLs: Activities of daily living; SE: Standard error.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.