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SHARE Grantee Joel Cantor Quoted in Congressional Quarterly

December 16, 2009:  SHARE grantee Joel Cantor was interviewed recently by Congressional Quarterly for a December 11 story on the broad political appeal of expanding young adult depen

HHS Announces SHAP Grant Recipients

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $70.9 million in grants to 13 states to support the expansion of health care coverage for their uninsured populations. Funding for the grants was provided by the new State Health Access Program (SHAP), which is a successor to the HHS State Planning Grant (SPG) program. The SHAP grants are to be awarded over a 5-year period and require a 20 percent state match, unless financial hardship is demonstrated. States must also show that they can sustain the program after federal funding ends.

HHS Announces SHAP Grant Recipients

September 16, 2009. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $70.9 million in grants to 13 states to support the expansion of health care coverage for their uninsured populations. Funding for the grants was provided by the new State Health Access Program (SHAP), which is a successor to the HHS State Planning Grant (SPG) program. The SHAP grants are to be awarded over a 5-year period and require a 20 percent state match, unless financial hardship is demonstrated. States must also show that they can sustain the program after federal funding ends.

RWJF Health Care Consumer Confidence Index Released

June 18, 2009.  SHADAC researchers have been working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop a new monthly Health Care Consumer Confidence Index. Today we have released the inaugural report featuring baseline data and the change as measured in May, providing an indicator of the health access concerns of the American people.

Insurance, Uninsurance, Underinsurance

Publication Year: 
2009

Presentation by Lynn Blewett, titled "Insurance, Uninsurance, Underinsurance," to the Kansas Health Institute, January 23, 2009, in Topeka, Kansas.

Understanding Underinsurance

Publication Year: 
2004

This student project is a critical literature review that examines what it means to be underinsured and the ways of determining the number of people in the United States who are underinsured. The project critically evaluates the typology arguing that it contains various confusions and fails to appreciate the interrelationships that exist between the various aspects of underinsurance. May 2004.

Measuring the Adequacy of Coverage or Underinsurance

Publication Year: 
2004

This survey method guide discusses the three approaches used in the literature to answer to the question of what it means for a person to be underinsured. These approaches, economic, structural and attitudinal, may be used individually or in combination for a comprehensive measurement of whether or not health care coverage may be considered adequate. January 2004.

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