This variable is recoded from verbatim variables that indicates the complete name of the first plan the person has.

The NHIS asked respondents to choose what type of health insure or health care coverage the person had, include those that pay for only one type of service (nursing home care, accidents, or dental care) and exclude private plans that only provide extra cash while hospitalized from a set of choices. The information above was recorded in a categorical variable. In addition, persons were asked to specify what kind of health insurance they have verbally and the information was recorded as a series of verbatim variables. By comparing the categorical variable and the verbatim variables, some responses for the health insure or health care coverage type could be reassigned when making the edited version of health cover type variables.