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Question: Are there health insurance data available prior to 1996?

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) published estimates for 1993 based on their National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS) (DHHS Publication Number 98-1017). A link to the 1993 NEHIS data on the NCHS Web site is provided for those MEPS-IC table series with 1993 data. Caution should be used when comparing the 1993 NEHIS data to the MEPS-IC data as the surveys differed in many ways.