Winners and losers in health insurance: access and type of coverage for women in same-sex and opposite-sex partnerships. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Using data from the American Community Survey, 2009 (N=580,754), we compared rates of health insurance coverage and types of coverage used between women in same-sex and opposite-sex partnerships. This large, national dataset also allowed us to investigate regional variation in insurance coverage for women in same-sex partnerships by comparing "gay-tolerant" states versus other states. Multivariate analyses revealed that women in same-sex partnerships consistently had lower rates of health insurance coverage than married women in opposite-sex partnerships, but always more than unmarried women in opposite-sex partnerships. We also found that state-level variation in gay tolerance did not contribute to the access or type of coverage used by women in same-sex partnerships.

published proceedings

  • Women Health

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Pals, H., & Waren, W.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Pals, Heili||Waren, Warren

publication date

  • January 2014