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Blog: New Subsidized Marketplace Data and Other Data Tables Now Available from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS)

Sep. 23, 2020: The U.S. Census Bureau recently released 2019 estimates of income, poverty, and health insurance coverage from both the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) and the American Community Survey (ACS). Along with the new estimates, several new data sets and...Read More

Presentation: September 23rd Webinar - An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: 2019 Health Insurance Coverage Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) & Current Population Survey (CPS)

Sep. 22, 2020: On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, SHADAC researchers and U.S. Census Bureau experts held a webinar that examined the new 2019 health insurance coverage data at both the national and the state level, as well as by coverage type, from both the American Community Survey (ACS) and the...Read More

2019 ACS Tables: State and County Uninsured Rates, with Comparison Year 2018

Sep. 17, 2020: The interactive map on this page links to tables containing state and county uninsurance estimates for 2019. These estimates come from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool. Click on a state below to see state and...Read More

Blog: 2019 ACS: Insurance Coverage Overall Fell Nationwide and among the States, with Private and Public Coverage Declines Seen at the State Level

Sep. 17, 2020: The U.S. Census Bureau has released 1-year estimates from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), including state-level information about health insurance coverage by type. This post focuses on private and public coverage. The State Story Nationally, the health insurance coverage rate...Read More

Blog: Factors in Financial Burdens Related to Health Care for Californians

Sep. 15, 2020: Though robust Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation efforts in California have resulted in larger numbers of residents with health care coverage, Californians are now facing coverage-related issues regarding rising costs of care and increasing financial burdens as a result of lack of...Read More

Blog: 2019 ACS: Rising National Uninsured Rate Echoed Across 19 States; Virginia Only State to See Decrease (Infographics)

Sep. 15, 2020: New 2019 health insurance coverage estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) were released this morning, and findings from the survey show the national rate of uninsured increased from 8.9% in 2018 to 9.2% in 2019.   This 0.3 percentage-point increase...Read More

Blog: State Health Compare Adds New Social Determinants Measure: Percent of Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences

Sep. 14, 2020: A new State Health Compare measure examines the prevalence and degree of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among different demographic groups, with estimates available across the states and over time.           The ACEs estimates...Read More

Blog: Expert Perspective: States’ Reporting of COVID-19 Health Equity Data (State Health & Value Strategies Cross-Post)

Sep. 12, 2020: The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies. It was first published on April 22, 2020. Authors: Emily Zylla, Lacey Hartman & Lindsey Theis - SHADAC Throughout the coronavirus pandemic SHADAC has been tracking which states are regularly...Read More

Blog: 2019 NHIS Full-Year Insurance Coverage Estimates Early Release: Uninsurance Increases, Variation among Public and Private Coverage

Sep. 11, 2020: The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2019 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. These are both the first available full-year coverage estimates for 2019 from a federal survey as well...Read More

Report/Brief: State-level Trends in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance (ESI), 2015-2019

Sep. 10, 2020: ESI PRODUCTS State Profiles Two-page “at a glance” graphic profiles of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) coverage trends between 2015 and 2019 for each state, including statistical comparisons of coverage changes from 2018 to 2019. Download a single file...Read More

Blog: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, 2015-2019: Premiums Hit New Highs and Deductibles Resume Increases after Brief Plateau (Infographic)

Sep. 10, 2020: More than 62.5 million private sector workers in the United States received health insurance benefits from their employer in 2019, and, according to SHADAC researchers, paid higher-than-ever premiums for their health plans last year. Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance...Read More

Blog: Addressing Persistent Medicaid Enrollment and Renewal Challenges as Rolls Increase

Sep. 02, 2020: Growth in Medicaid enrollment is expected to accelerate as a result of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic downturn. An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), for example, shows that by January 2021, nearly 17 million people could be newly eligible for Medicaid.i In...Read More

Blog: After drop in 2018, newer data indicate a resurgence in drug overdose deaths

Aug. 26, 2020: While new SHADAC research found small but statistically significant declines in opioid and drug overdose death rates during 2018, newer data indicate those reductions may have been short-lived. Overall, in 2018, drug overdose death rates declined 4.6 percent as compared to the prior year, but our...Read More

Report/Brief: Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing National and State Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic

Aug. 26, 2020: For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing and evolving crisis of substance abuse and addiction; a crisis illustrated by statistically significant increases in overdose deaths directly from, or related to, opioids. These increases have occurred throughout the country, as...Read More

Blog: SHADAC COVID-19 Survey Chartbooks Provide Visualizations of Coronavirus Impacts on Health Insurance Coverage, Access and Affordability of Care, and Pandemic Stress Levels of U.S. Adults

Aug. 24, 2020: Earlier this year, SHADAC published initial results from a two-part survey designed by our researchers to measure the impacts of the novel coronavirus on health care access and insurance coverage, as well as COVID-related worries and coping responses, for adults in the United States. The “SHADAC...Read More

Blog: New Brief Explores State Approaches to Risk Adjustment Based on Social Factors and Strategies for Filling Data Gaps

Aug. 19, 2020: The role that social factors, such as housing instability, food insecurity, and access to transportation, have in influencing health has been a growing focus in health policy and health care. However, the concept of “social determinants of health” (SDOH), the idea that individuals have unique...Read More

Blog: Now Available on State Health Compare: 12 Updated and New Measures on Health Insurance Coverage, Cost of Care, Public Health, Health Behaviors and Outcomes, and Quality of Care

Aug. 10, 2020: SHADAC has published one brand new measure and updated eleven existing data measures with the latest available estimates on our State Health Compare site.  The new measure we’ve added is: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) This measure defines the percent of children (age 0-17) who...Read More

Blog: New Brief details 2020 update for the SHADAC Health Insurance Unit (HIU)

Jul. 31, 2020: In the years following the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), SHADAC developed and introduced its Health Insurance Unit, or “HIU,” a tool to aid in defining family interrelationships in federal population surveys for the purpose of analyzing health insurance coverage...Read More

Blog: Updates to Minnesota's Uninsured Profile Data Tool that Identifies and Characterizes the Uninsured Population

Jul. 21, 2020: After a successful initial release of a new, interactive data tool that provides a way to identify and characterize communities with high uninsurance rates in Minnesota, Dr. Kathleen Call and her team at SHADAC have continued their partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of...Read More

50-State Analysis of Drug Overdose Trends: The Evolving Opioid Crisis Across the States (Infographics)

Jul. 17, 2020: This set of two-page infographics uses estimates from SHADAC’s State Health Compare online data tool to explore the evolving opioid overdose epidemic across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, examining state variation in both the prevalence of opioid...Read More

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