This analysis compares the March 1994 and March 1995 Current Populatio
n Survey (CPS) counts of the numbers of people with different types of
health insurance and without any health insurance coverage. The findi
ngs contain some suprises: there were no changes in the numbers of non
elderly people with Medicaid coverage and without any health insurance
, and there were increases in the numbers of nonelderly people with em
ployer-sponsored health insurance and with CHAMPUS/VA/military health
care. Four changes were introduced in the CPS in 1995 and were likely,
by themselves, to both raise and lower the estimates of the number of
people with specific types of health insurance coverage. Three of the
changes relate to questions about health insurance coverage; they coi
ncide with the traditional mid-decade shift in the sample framework fo
r the CPS.