Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Briefs prepared by SHADAC

• Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured (Updated September 2012)
• Public program crowd-out of private coverage: What are the issues? (June 2004)

Cover the Uninsured and Back-to-School Campaign Reports

These reports were released for the Cover the Uninsured and Kids Back-to-School campaigns, projects of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders.

• Barely Hanging On:  Middle Class and Uninsured (March 2010)
  This report presents trend in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage from 2000 to 2008.  Over this time the percent of people in the U.S. who had employer-sponsored coverage declined over 6 percent.
• At the Brink: Trends in America's Uninsured 1994-2007 (March 2009)
  This report chronicles state-by-state health coverage trends. Over the last 15 years, nearly every state has seen increased numbers of uninsured residents, greater costs for workers while their incomes are flat, and significant erosion of private coverage.
• "A Needed Lifeline: Chronically Ill Children and Public Health Insurance Coverage" (August 2008)
  This report includes a state-by-state analysis on children’s access to health care services, especially children who suffer from chronic illness.
• "Squeezed: How Costs for Insuring Families are Outpacing Income" (April 2008)
  This report utilizes data from ongoing federal surveys of individuals and employers to examine trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, premiums and offer rates across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• "Protecting America's Future: A State-by-State Look at SCHIP and Uninsured Kids" (August 2007)
  This report contains several tables comparing the health care received by children on SCHIP and the health care received by uninsured children.
• "Whose Kids are Covered?" (March 2007)
  This report contains graphs on the characteristics of uninsured children by state.
• "The Coverage Gap: A State-by-State Report on Access to Care" (May 2006)
  This report includes analysis of health disparities between insured and uninsured adults.
• "Shifting Ground: Changes in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance" (May 2006)
  This report includes data from an ongoing federal survey of employers to examine trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage and take-up rates across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• "Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, 2005" (May 2005)
  This report includes characteristics of the uninsured age 18-64 with graphs of comparative information by state for demographics, employment, access to health care and health status.
• "Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, 2004" (May 2004)
  This report includes characteristics of the uninsured age 18-64 with graphs of comparative information by state for demographics, employment, access to health care and health status.