Who Falls Through the Healthcare Safety Net? (ILAP)

This project is appropriate for a mathematics course intended to serve students majoring in fine arts and the humanities, frequently referred to as a "liberal arts" mathematics course.

Many of us take our health insurance for granted; but according to the U.S. Census Bureau report for 2007, more than 15% of the people in the United States have no health insurance, public or private. That is more than 42 million people, many of whom are children. With increasing medical costs, those without insurance frequently have to forego medical treatment or must give up their life savings to pay for it.
This Interdisciplinary Lively ApplicationProject (ILAP) explores groups of people without health insurance in an effort to analyze the problem. All data are fromthe U.S. Census Bureau and can be made available to students in spreadsheet form.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

INSTRUCTIONS

REQUIREMENTS

INSTRUCTORS' COMMENTS AND SOLUTIONS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR