OBJECTIVES To examine associations between health status and attitude about health insurance in Medical Expenditure Panel Survey population (MEPS). Studies have shown that lack of health insurance is associated with important clinical characteristics, including use of fewer health care services, delaying-seeking medical care and forgoing necessary care for potentially serious symptoms. METHODS The Household Component (HC) public use file from the 2005 MEPS data, a nationally representative survey of the noninstitutionalized population was used in the United States. Health status and attitudes towards health insurance were measured using the Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) data collected within MEPS. Data were analyzed using SAS® 9.1.3. Descriptive statistics were obtained using PROC UNIVARIATE. PROC CANCORR was used to measure canonical correlation between set of attitude about health insurance variables and set of health status variables. RESULTS The mean age of sample was 46.33 years (Standard deviation: 17.69). the majority were female 60.6% and white 77.2%. The first canonical correlation was 0.32 (11% overlapping variance); the second was 0.08 (0.6% overlapping variance). All four pairs of canonical variates accounted for the significant relationships between the two sets of variables. Canonical Redundancy Analysis obtained using PROC CANCORR found first health status variate accounting 4% of variance in attitude about health insurance variable set. CONCLUSIONS A person's health status and their attitude about health insurance are moderately related. Further studies need to be conducted with more measures of attitude about health insurance to determine exact relationship between health status and attitude about health insurance.