Health care overhaul's impact on Georgia

With the Supreme Court ruling Thursday that President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul can go forward, here's a look at numbers on Georgia health care and insurance.

Number of uninsured: 19.4 percent of Georgians, 1.9 million people, lacked insurance coverage in 2010, compared with 16.3 percent of Americans nationwide.

How Georgians have fared

851,076 -- Medicare beneficiaries who received free preventive services or wellness visits with their doctor last year.

123,000 -- Young adults who gained insurance coverage as a result of the law as of December 2011.

106,922 -- Medicare recipients who received a $250 rebate to bridge the donut hole gap in 2010

102,366 -- Medicare beneficiaries who received a 50 percent discount on brand name prescription drugs last year. That represents an average savings of $573 per person and statewide savings of more than $58.6 million.

3.3 million -- People, including nearly 1.3 million women and 916,000 kids, who no longer have to worry about lifetime limits on health benefits

2,066 -- Previously uninsured people with pre-existing conditions are now insured through the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan as of April 2012.

Who's insured in Georgia and how

• Since 2000, the likelihood of having employment-based coverage among the non-elderly has fallen from more than 75 percent to less than 55 percent.
• Roughly 90 percent of Georgians with private insurance coverage obtain that insurance through an employment-based plan.
• Of non-elderly Georgians who live in a family headed by a full-time, full-year worker, 69 percent have employment-based health insurance. That percentage falls to approximately 35 percent for those whose family head experienced some unemployment during the year, and to 15 percent for families headed by a non-worker.
• Less than a third of non-elderly Georgians whose family head is employed by a firm with fewer than 10 employees has employment-based health benefits versus 72 percent employed by firms with 100-plus workers.
• Less than one in five of those with family incomes below 138 percent of poverty have employer-sponsored insurance coverage, compared with 81 percent of those earning four or more times the poverty level.
• Some 80 percent of all uninsured individuals live in a family headed by someone with at least some attachment to the workforce.
• Georgians whose family head is working at firms with less than 10 employees make up 16 percent of the population but account for more than 29 percent without coverage.
• Families whose family head is working at Georgia's smallest firms are more likely to be uninsured (38 percent), compared with families headed by non-workers (32 percent).
• On average, Georgians spend $170 less out-of-pocket than the national average for health care services.