“…Reporting of Medicare coverage may be influenced by health care utilization, which in turn may be affected by such person-level characteristics as gender, age, marital status, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, family income, family size, citizenship status, employment status, and having additional medical coverage (Fiscella, Franks, Doescher, & Saver, 2002;Hartley, Quam, & Lurie, 1994;Huang, Shih, Chang, & Chou, 2007;Leclere, Jensen, & Biddlecom, 1994;Mentnech, Ross, Park, & Benner, 1995;Zuvekas & Taliaferro, 2003). These covariates are reported by the NHIS family respondent.…”