No diploma? You're more likely to be uninsured

Women without high school diplomas were nearly four times more likely to be uninsured as women with college degrees, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
The policy brief, which examined health insurance coverage for a range of categories, including age, income, ethnicity, family structure and education, is based on a 2007 California health survey.
Authors found that nearly 2.5 million California women between 18 and 64 years old were uninsured at some time during 2007. Latinas, American Indian/Alaska natives (26 percent), poor women, single women without children and single mothers were most among those most likely to be uninsured.
Four out of 10 women without a high school degree did not have health insurance, in contrast to 11 percent of college-educated women. But even a quarter of women with high school degrees lacked coverage, an uninsurance rate more than twice that of college-educated women.
Seventy-five percent of women with college degrees had employer-baed health insurance, compared with 49 percent of those with high school degrees and 23 percent of those who had not graduated high school.