Insurance: Costs for health insurance

In dtkaplan/StatsUsingTechnologyData: Data sets from Kathryn Kozak's textbook

Description

The US Affordable Care Act created a market place for individuals to purchase health care plans. The data is from 2014.

Usage

data(Insurance)

Format

A data.frame wherein each row is one state in the US

• state: state of insured.

• average_QHP: The number of qualified health plans

• bronze_lowest: premium for the lowest bronze level of insurance for a single person ($)

• silver_lowest: premium for the lowest silver level of insurance for a single person ($)

• gold_lowest: premium for the lowest gold level of insurance for a single person ($)

• catastrophic: premium for the catastrophic level of insurance for a single person ($)

• second_silver_pretax: premium for the second silver level of insurance for a single person pretax ($)

• second_silver_posttax: premium for the second silver level of insurance for a single person posttax ($)

• second_bronze_posttax: premium for the lowest bronze level of insurance for a single person posttax ($)

• silver_family_pretax: premium for the silver level of insurance for a family pretax ($)

• silver_family_posttax: premium for the silver level of insurance for a family posttax ($)

• bronze_family_posttax: premium for the bronze level of insurance for a family posttax ($)

Source

Health Insurance Market Place Retrieved from website: http://aspe. hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/marketplacepremiums/ib_premiumslandscape. pdf premiums for 2014.

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