About a third of Hispanics were without health insurance in 1996. Almost a third of persons in poverty and a quarter of persons near poverty were uninsured. A quarter of adults who had completed less than the ninth grade and a fifth of those who had completed grades nine to 12 were uninsured. Living in a nuclear family seems to encourage or allow persons to be insured. Divorced, separated, and never married persons have high probabilities of being uninsured.
Persons living in the South and West have high probabilities of being uninsured.
Even those clearly not in need, however, included uninsured persons.