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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

MEPS-IC Tables

Publication Year: 
2011

Estimates related to employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) in firms with 50 to 99 employees have been made available by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from the Medical Expend

SHARE Webinar Recording Available: Using the NHIS to Evaluate State Health Reform

SHARE hosted a webinar on September 1, 2010, about the use of federal and state survey data for evaluating the impact of health reform at the state level.  A recording of the event,

Barely Hanging On

Publication Year: 
2010

This report presents state-by-state trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage from 2000 to 2008.  This coverage has long been the mainstay of coverage in the United States, particularly for middle class families.

The report was released by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the 2010 Cover the Uninsured Week, a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and demand solutions from our nation's leaders.

We’re Barely Hanging On to Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

March 17, 2010: A new report came out today that presents the grim toll that the two recessions of the 21st century have taken on employer-sponsored health insurance coverage.  "Barely

Middle Class Shouldering Brunt of Health Insurance Crisis

A new report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based on analysis conducted by SHADAC researchers, shows how the two recessions that Americans have weathered in the first decade of the 21st century have taken a tremendous toll on people's ability to afford health insurance and employers' capacity to offer it."Barely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsured," documents that while the situation has been tough for everyone, it's America's middle class that has been hardest hit.

New Research Data Center to Open at UMN

February 3, 2009.  The University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and Minnesota Population Center (MPC) recently received approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Census Bureau to open the Minnesota Research Data Center (MNRDC) in January of 2010. The RDC allows access to confidential (non-public) data for research in a highly secure environment and has potential applications across the university.

Estimating the Size of the Uninsured and Other Vulnerable Populations in a Local Area

Publication Year: 
2003

Blewett, L. A. and T. J. Beebe. “Estimating the Size of the Uninsured and Other Vulnerable Populations in a Local Area.” In Weinick, R.M. and Billings, J. (eds), Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net – Book III: Tools for Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net, Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2003. AHRQ Publication No. 03-0027.

View the report on AHRQ's website (link opens in new page)

Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count Uninsured People in America, Aug 2008

Publication Year: 
2008

This brief compares estimates of health insurance coverage from three national health surveys sponsored by the federal government, identifies the differences in their estimates of uninsurance, and identifies three common themes: (1) all the surveys report very large numbers of Americans living without health insurance; (2) all surveys show that these numbers have risen over the decade, particularly for adults; and (3) children’s rates of uninsurance declined earlier in the decade, largely due to growth of public programs such as the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but

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