First, our sample is markedly different from those used inmost existing papers on health insurance decisions, which focuson the decision to take-up employer-provided insurance. As wenoted earlier, less than 15 percent of the uninsured have access toemployer-provided insurance. Furthermore, most studies use sam-ples in which the majority of respondents are actually covered byinsurance and as insured people are far wealthier (see Table 1),we thus focus on poorer individuals than past work has, who mayexhibit different elasticities. Indeed, as noted earlier in Table 3, inour sample of uninsured individuals those with lower incomes areindeed more price-elastic, suggesting that price elasticities dimin-ish with income even in our relatively low-income sample. Thus,differences in income could account for part of the reason we findlarger elasticities than do past researchers. Moreover, by dint oftheir all being uninsured, our sample may be more homogeneousthan in past studies, leading to a smaller range of price elastici-ties.