Part 1 -

Use your choice of resources to find data about the Uninsured populations "Washington, DC".

a. What is your state's insurance rate?  What is the percentage of residents who do not have coverage in your state? 

b. Who are the Uninsured in your state?   Provide demographic data for a description of these populations.

Part 2

"Botswana" WHO profile and other resources to write a brief description (no more than 1 or 2 paragraphs).   Discuss the following in your own words:

a. How does your country's health system handle the issue of providing health insurance coverage to its population?  Is the system organized around the government, private insurance, or a combination?  

b. What is your country's insurance rate?  What is the percentage of residents who do not have coverage?

c. Who are the Uninsured in your country?   Provide demographic and geographic data for a description of these populations.

Resources and Help Aids to complete assignments, you DO NOT have to read all of them, just use what you need to answer the above questions.

Teitelbaum&Wilensky, Overview of the United States Healthcare System, Chapter 4, pages 45-61 (2nd) or 45-60 (3rd)

The Uninsured In America CBS Evening News, May 2007.  (4:08)

In U.S., Uninsured Rate Sinks to 12.9%, Gallup January 7, 2015

Key Facts about the Uninsured Population.  Kaiser Family Foundation Fact Sheet, October 2014. 

The Uninsured: A Primer.  Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2015. 

Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: How Obtaining Medicaid Coverage Impacts Low-Income Adults - Read Executive Summary and skim the rest.

Issue Brief: Medicaid Moving Forward. KFF, 2015.

This Law Is Here To Stay.CBSNews (7:42)