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The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage. Learn more about MEPS.

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What's New Highlights
Upcoming Event
Save the date for the MEPS & HCUP Two-Day Data Users' Workshop. September 28–29, 2009, Rockville, MD. Registration will open in mid-July. More details. . .

New Publications
Among all non-elderly, full-time workers, low income workers (56.1 percent) were less likely than middle income workers (84.9 percent) and high income workers (94.9 percent) to have private health insurance coverage. Full-time low income workers were more likely than other groups to have public coverage (9.4 percent) or to be uninsured (34.5 percent). —From Chartbook 18: Full-Time Poor and Low Income Workers: Demographic Characteristics and Trends in Health Insurance Coverage, 1996-97 to 2005-06.

New Data Files
Tables containing health insurance coverage data for 2007 and for the first six months of 2008 are now available.

To access a list of all the latest items posted on our Web site, visit What's New.

 
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