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SHADAC Briefs

SHADAC's briefs are listed here, broken out by most recently published and by topic.

Most Recently Published Briefs:

State Estimates of the Low-Income Uninsured Not Eligible for the ACA Medicaid Expansion, March 2013
NHIS Questionnaire Changes Addressing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, January 2013
Understanding 1-, 3-, and 5-year ACS Estimates: Summary Tabulations and Public Use Files, September 2012
Predicting the Health Insurance Impacts of Complex Policy Changes: A New Tool for States, July 2012
SHAP Enrollment and Eligibility Activities: Implications for Process and System Modernization under National Health Reform, May 2012
Best Practices in SHAP Outreach, Eligibility, and Enrollment Activities, May 2012
State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2010 American Community Survey, April 2012
Predicting the Effects of the Affordable Care Act, March 2012
Defining Family for Studies of Health Insurance Coverage, March 2012
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates from the Census Bureau: 2008 and 2009, October 2011
State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2009 American Community Survey, July 2011
CO-OP Health Plans: Can They Help Fix Rural America’s Health Insurance Markets?, June 2011
Monitoring the Impacts of Health Reform at the State Level: Using Federal Survey Data, March 2011
Health Insurance Exchanges - How Economic and Financial Modeling Can Support State Implementation, November 2010
Health Insurance Exchanges: Implementation and Data Considerations for States and Existing Models for Comparison, October 2010
Comparing Health Insurance Estimates from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey, September 2010

By Topic:

Health Reform and Policy Issues

Issues for State High-Risk Pools with Implementation of National Health Reform, June 2010
State High Risk Pools - An Overview, July 2008
Expanding Access to Health Insurance Coverage Lessens the Burden of Uncompensated Care, December 2003
Yet Another Wild Card in State Budget Deliberations: Federal SCHIP Allocations to States, October 2003

Health Insurance Coverage Estimates
(note: visit our Data Center to run tables of coverage estimates from the most recent and historical years of the Current Population Survey and American Survey)

State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2010 American Community Survey, April 2012
Defining Family for Studies of Health Insurance Coverage, March 2012
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates from the Census Bureau: 2008 and 2009, October 2011
State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2009 American Community Survey, July 2011
State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: Why State Survey Estimates Differ from CPS (update), November 2007
A Comparison of Children's Uninsurance Rates Across the States 1995-97 to 2000-02, February 2004
Comparison of Children's Uninsurance Rates Across the States, February 2003
State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: Why State-Survey Estimates Differ from CPS, July 2001
What is Behind the 8 Percent Drop in Uninsurance?, February 2002
The Current Population Survey and State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates, March 2001

Survey Methods

NHIS Questionnaire Changes Addressing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, January 2013
Understanding 1-, 3-, and 5-year ACS Estimates: Summary Tabulations and Public Use Files, September 2012
Defining Family for Studies of Health Insurance Coverage, March 2012
Comparing Health Insurance Estimates from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey, September 2010
Historical Changes in Current Population Survey Health Insurance Coverage Items, October 2009
An Introduction to the American Community Survey Health Insurance Coverage Estimates, September 2009
Measurement of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys, July 2009
Data Availability for Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys, July 2009
The Impact of Wireless-only Households on State Surveys of Health Insurance Coverage, March 2009
Are Lower Response Rates Hazardous to Your Health Survey?, February 2008
Reclassifying Health Insurance Coverage for the Indian Health Service in the Current Population Survey: Impact on State Uninsurance Estimates, April 2005
Do National Surveys Overestimate the Number of Uninsured? Findings from the Medicaid Undercount Experiment in Minnesota, January 2004
Overview of Approaches for Estimating Uninsurance Rates at the Sub-state Level, April 2002
The Impact of Changes to the Current Population Survey on State Health Insurance Coverage Estimation, March 2001
State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: Why State-Survey Estimates Differ from CPS, July 2001
What is Behind the 8 Percent Drop in Uninsurance?, February 2002

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