{
  "name": "insurance-coverage-census-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · Insurance Coverage (Census SAHIE + ACS) MCP",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "US health insurance coverage from the Census Bureau: SAHIE model-based uninsured/insured estimates with 90% confidence intervals for the US, states and counties 2006-2024 by age, income-to-poverty, sex and race (state), plus any American Community Survey table (e.g. S2701, S2704, B27001, B27010) for states, counties, tracts, ZCTAs, places and metro areas, with labels and margins of error. Live api.census.gov.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Eligibility & Enrollment",
  "datasets": [
    "ELIG-05",
    "ELIG-06"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://insurance-coverage-census.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/insurance-coverage-census-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "U.S. Census Bureau API – SAHIE timeseries + American Community Survey",
    "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sahie.html",
    "license": "U.S. Government Work (public domain) – Census Bureau data; https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html",
    "refresh": "live (24 h edge cache); SAHIE yearly, ACS yearly"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "coverage_get_sahie_estimates",
      "title": "SAHIE uninsured / insured estimates for the US, states or counties",
      "description": "Census SAHIE model-based estimates of uninsured and insured people under 65 (rate, count, 90% CI) for the US, states (50 + DC) or counties, for one year (2006–2024, default latest), sliced by age group, income-to-poverty (e.g. le_138), sex and race (US/state only). For rankings use coverage_rank_uninsured; for change over time coverage_get_sahie_trend."
    },
    {
      "name": "coverage_rank_uninsured",
      "title": "Rank states or counties by SAHIE uninsured rate or count",
      "description": "Ranks states, or counties within a state (or all ~3,140 US counties), by SAHIE uninsured rate (default) or number uninsured for a year and population slice, with 90% CIs and a flag when a row's interval overlaps the next row's (not statistically distinguishable)."
    },
    {
      "name": "coverage_get_sahie_trend",
      "title": "SAHIE uninsured-rate time series",
      "description": "Yearly SAHIE series (default 2008–2024, the comparable span) of uninsured rate and count with 90% CIs for the US, one state or one county and a population slice, plus first-to-last change and whether the change is outside both CIs. Use for before/after questions (e.g. Medicaid expansion years)."
    },
    {
      "name": "census_query_data",
      "title": "Query any ACS variables for chosen geographies",
      "description": "Returns ACS estimates (with labels and 90% MOEs) for up to 24 variables for the US, states, counties, tracts (11-digit GEOID), ZCTAs, places, metro areas or congressional districts. Coverage tables: S2701 (uninsured, e.g. S2701_C05_001E = % uninsured), S2704 (public coverage, S2704_C03_001E = %), S2703 (private), B27001/B27010 (detailed counts). Find codes with census_search_variables."
    },
    {
      "name": "census_compare_geographies",
      "title": "Rank geographies on an ACS variable",
      "description": "Ranks all counties, tracts, places or congressional districts in a state (or all states / all US counties / metro areas) on one ACS variable (e.g. S2701_C05_001E % uninsured), returning value, MOE and 90% CI plus up to 4 extra variables per row; *_total vs *_returned counts."
    },
    {
      "name": "census_search_variables",
      "title": "Find ACS table and variable codes",
      "description": "Searches ACS tables (groups) by title words, then returns matching variables (codes + labels) from the best tables, or searches inside one table when table is given (e.g. table='S2701', query='uninsured 19 to 64'). Use before census_query_data."
    },
    {
      "name": "coverage_describe_dataset",
      "title": "What this server covers",
      "description": "Coverage, slices, definitions, caveats and useful variable codes for SAHIE and ACS health-insurance tables. Lean by default; section='codes' lists common ACS coverage variables, 'all' everything."
    }
  ]
}