VISIT STATE HEALTH COMPARE
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State Household Surveys Alive and Well!
Feb. 09, 2009 : February 9, 2009. Pennsylvania was the most recent state to release results from its own state household survey. Despite valuable information on health insurance coverage that is released every year as part of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), many states still find it essential to administer their own household survey to get more detailed information on the characteristics... Read moreNew Research Data Center to Open at UMN
Feb. 03, 2009 : 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... Read moreThe Burden of Underinsurance
Feb. 02, 2009 : February 2, 2009. I was in Topeka, Kansas on January 23 to present our new state-level estimates of "underinsurance." I was invited by Gina Maree, Director of Health Care Finance and Organization of the Kansas Health institute (KHI), to be the keynote speaker for a day-long convening on the issues related to those who have health insurance but whose coverage is inadequate to meet their health... Read moreState Survey Workshop Recap
Jan. 26, 2009 : January 26, 2009. On Tuesday, January 13th SHADAC hosted a meeting in DC on, "Current Issues in Survey Methods for State Health Surveys" The two key topics for the day were: (1) the increasing use of cell phones and the barriers they create when conducting Random Digit Dial (RDD) telephone surveys; and (2) the Medicaid undercount. The meeting was very well received with more than 60 people... Read moreSHARE Grantee Joel Cantor quoted in New York Times
Jan. 21, 2009 : January 21, 2009. SHARE grantee Joel Cantor was quoted in the New York Times about the effectiveness of laws that allow young adults to be claimed as dependents on their parents’ health insurance plans. "We’ve reviewed the laws and regulations from all 25 states," said Cantor, the director of the Center for State Healthy Policy at Rutgers University, who is studying the national impact of the... Read moreUniversal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut Unveils New State Health Plan
Jan. 14, 2009 : January 14, 2009. The Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut has spearheaded a coalition of Connecticut business and labor leaders, health providers, clergy, and health care advocates to produce a health reform proposal called "SustiNet: Health Care We Can Count On." The reform seeks to expands health care coverage and contain health care costs. Click here to view Policy Proposal (... Read moreNew SHARE Research Fellow Position - Now Open
Jan. 06, 2009 : January 6, 2009. The Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota seeks a Research Fellow for the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) Program at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC). The Fellow will work on this multi-year national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). This 12-month, 100% time... Read morePages
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