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2021 CPS ASEC: Fewer Americans Had Health Insurance Coverage in 2020 — Private Coverage Fell while Public Coverage Rose
Sep. 15, 2021 : National Story The U.S. Census Bureau has released 1-year health insurance coverage estimates for 2020 from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). The Census report, “Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2020,” showed that the national uninsured rate was 8.6 percent in 2020, which represented a significant increase from 8.0 percent in... Read moreNew York State of Health Pilot Yields Increased Race and Ethnicity Question Response Rates
Sep. 10, 2021 : The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies. It was first published on September 9, 2021. Author: Colin Planalp, SHADAC Race response rate grew 20 percentage points, ethnicity grew 8 percentage points Summary New York set out to improve race and ethnicity response rates by piloting changes to the question on the Marketplace... Read moreBlog & News: New Brief Examines Collection and Availability of Data on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Groups in Federal Surveys
Sep. 08, 2021 : Measurement of race, ethnicity, and immigration (REI) status is a critical component of research used to inform policy. However, the standards for measuring these concepts are often confusing for analysts. A new SHADAC brief aims to assist state and federal analysts with survey development and/or analysis of existing survey data to generate estimates of health insurance coverage and access to... Read moreBlog & News: New SHADAC Brief Looks at Changes in Federal Surveys During COVID Pandemic
Aug. 27, 2021 : The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have been far ranging—on education, work, healthcare, and almost every other aspect of daily life. However, another effect of COVID that is just now coming to light is the interruption of data collection processes and falling response rates for yearly federal surveys that, among other measures, provide estimates of health insurance coverage for the United... Read morePresentations: (Webinar) U.S. Health On the Rocks: The Quiet Threat of Growing Alcohol Deaths
Aug. 25, 2021 : Date: Tuesday, September 21st Time: 3:00 PM Central / 4:00 PM Eastern While much public attention has been given to the opioid epidemic, the United States has been quietly experiencing another growing public health crisis that surpasses opioid overdoses as a cause of substance abuse-related deaths in nearly half of all states: alcohol-involved deaths. Using... Read moreBlog & News: Explore Physician Acceptance of New Medicaid Patients through Two New Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare and in a New MACPAC Factsheet
Aug. 05, 2021 : Authors: Robert Hest and Julia Ngep In order for the more than 80 million Medicaid beneficiaries to access needed care in a timely manner, there must be a sufficient number of health care providers to serve these patients. There has long been concern that providers are less likely to accept Medicaid patients than patients with other types of health insurance coverage. Because Medicaid policies... Read moreBlog & News: Tracking Broadband Access to Monitor Access to Care
Aug. 04, 2021 : The dramatic growth of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of broadband access in ensuring that people can obtain healthcare services. Broadband has allowed individuals to leverage telehealth technology to receive care from providers in ways that minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission while eliminating certain access barriers regarding transportation and/... Read moreBlog & News: Census Bureau Announces Major Changes to 2020 American Community Survey (ACS) Data Release
Jul. 30, 2021 : On July 29, the U.S. Census Bureau announced during a special webinar that due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the American Community Survey, the 2020 ACS 1-Year estimates will not be released as usual in September, nor will 2020 ACS data be included in related products (e.g., the CPS Health Insurance Report). This change comes as the pandemic resulted in substantially lower response rates... Read moreBlog & News: Minnesota Medicaid Enrollment Grew More than the U.S. Average during COVID-19
Jul. 20, 2021 : The Minnesota Medicaid program has served as an important safety net program during the COVID-19 crisis. As a countercyclical program, Medicaid enrollment/spending increases when the economy is in decline (such as during a pandemic or a recession), as employer-sponsored insurance decreases and the low-income population increases.1 The additional enrollment of 166,364 individuals in Minnesota... Read moreBlog & News: COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: State-level and Subpopulation Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey
Jul. 19, 2021 : Update 6: June 9 to June 21 The COVID-19 vaccines promise to help protect individual Americans against infection and eventually provide population-level herd immunity. After several months of rolling out the various one and two-shot COVID-19 vaccines, which have included hiccups from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, vaccination rates continue to increase at a slow but steady pace. Although... Read morePages
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