Figure 6 is titled "Serious Mental Illness among Adults Aged 26 to 49, by Health Insurance Status: 2002." It is a bar graph, where the horizontal axis represents type of health insurance and the vertical axis represents percent with serious mental illness. There are four categories of health insurance type: private health insurance, Medicaid, other health insurance, and no health insurance coverage. For each category of health insurance, the percentage with serious mental illness is as follows:

Of those with private health insurance, 8.1% have serious mental illness (SMI).
Of those with Medicaid, 20.7% have SMI.
Of those with other health insurance, 11.2% have SMI.
Of those with no health insurance coverage, 11.7% have SMI.

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