Excerpts from The National Health Survey Report, page II-7-8

Respondents were asked whether they have considered suicide as a solution to their problems at any time during the past twelve months. More than nine out of every ten (94%) U.S. residents reported that they had not considered suicide during the past year. However, slightly less than one in ten (6%) indicated that they had thought about suicide as a solution to their problems at some point during the last twelve months. U.S. residents with poverty level income were more likely than those with higher incomes to report that they had considered suicide as a solution to their problems during the past year (poverty=14% vs. low income=5% and above low income=5%). Those U.S. residents with Medicaid were more likely than those with Commercial/HMOs, Medicare and those with no medical insurance to indicate that they had considered suicide (16% vs. 5% vs. 6% and 7%, respectively). (Chart 13)

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