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Testimony on the Impact of the Economic Downturn on MN Health Care Delivery System

February 17, 2009. As a member of the Division of Health Policy and Management in the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, I was asked to testify on February 10 to a joint Minnesota House committee hearing of the Health Care and Human Services Policy Committee and the Finance Division Committee, chaired by Representative Thomas Huntley and Representative Paul Thissen. The topic of the hearing was "The economic impact on Minnesota’s health care delivery system."

Economic Impact on Minnesota’s Health Care Delivery System

Publication Year: 
2009

Presentation by Lynn Blewett to the Minnesota State Legislature at a joint meeting of the health care and human services finance and policy committees in Saint Paul, MN, February 10 2009.

Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment

Publication Year: 
2003

Blewett, L. A., G. Davidson, M. Brown, and R. Maude-Griffin. 2003. “Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment.” Medical Care Research and Review 60 (4): 509-527.

Expanding Access to Health Insurance Coverage Lessens the Burden of Uncompensated Care

Publication Year: 
2003

SHADAC's Issue Brief #8 describes how SHADAC tested the hypothesis that increased access to insurance results in reduced levels of uncompensated care by assessing the impact that enrollment in the MinnesotaCare program, a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor, had on levels of uncompensated care provided by Minnesota hospitals over time. December 2003.

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