Residents of some U.S. communities are far more likely to buy their own health insurance than residents of other communities are.[@@]
A total of 6.5% of all U.S. residents under age 65 have private, individual health insurance, according to researchers at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington.
But the EBRI researchers, who based their report on data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, found that the percentage of market residents who own individual health coverage varies dramatically from market to market.
