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Report/Brief: Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, 2005

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2005 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project 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. This report includes characteristics of the...Read More

Report/Brief: Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, 2004

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2004 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project 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. This report includes characteristics of the...Read More

Report/Brief: A Profile of Minnesota Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care

Oct. 09, 2008: This brief report includes analysis from the 2001 and 2004 Minnesota Health Access Surveys and the 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. May 2006.Read More

Report/Brief: A Needed Lifeline: Chronically Ill Children and Public Health Insurance Coverage

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2008 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project 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. The report includes a state-by-state analysis on...Read More

Report/Brief: Public program crowd-out of private coverage: What are the issues?

Oct. 09, 2008: This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Synthesis Project Report addresses the topic of crowd-out, or public coverage substitution for private insurance, examining the evidence on crowd-out and its implications for future policies to expand coverage. June 2004. Suggested citation:  Williams...Read More

Report/Brief: Summary Description of Weights in the CPS

Oct. 09, 2008: This brief contains a summary of the statistical weights used in the Current Population Survey's Annual Demographic Supplement. April 2001. Read More

Report/Brief: What is Behind the 8 Percent Drop in the Uninsurance Rate?

Oct. 09, 2008: This document is a brief on the 8 percent drop in the uninsurance rate which resulted from the addition of a verification question to the Current Population Survey (CPS) health insurance module. August 2001.Read More

Report/Brief: How the CPS Measures Health Insurance Status and the New Verification Question

Oct. 09, 2008: In March 2000, the Census Bureau added a verification question to the Current Population Survey (CPS) health insurance module. This question resulted in a more accurate estimate of the rate of uninsurance. This brief describes the Census Bureau’s previous approach to measuring health insurance and...Read More

Report/Brief: CPS Sample Design Description

Oct. 09, 2008: This brief contains an introduction to the sample design employed by the Current Population Survey (CPS), as well as information about the sampled household rotation schedule, the Annual Demographic Supplement, and survey weights. April 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: Revisions to the CPS: Impact on State Health Policy

Oct. 07, 2008: This brief contains information for the states on the addition of the uninsurance verification question to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS estimates of state uninsurance rates will be adjusted based on the new verification question. August 2001.Read More

Report/Brief: Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy

Oct. 07, 2008: This report presents the achievements of SHADAC in its first six years, with descriptions of our expertise and accomplishments in bridging the gap between research and policy. August 2007.Read More

Report/Brief: The State of Kids' Coverage

Oct. 07, 2008: This report was released for the 2006 Covering Kids & Families Back-to-School Campaign, a national effort to enroll eligible children in public coverage programs during the back-to-school season.  This initiative is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The research in this report...Read More

Report/Brief: Individual High Risk Pools: A Case Study of the MN Comprehensive Health Assn

Sep. 30, 2008: A report funded by the New York State Health Foundation as part of a scan of the various strategies states are using to try to address the growing problem of small-group coverage; this report provides in-depth case studies on the strategies being used by Minnesota. September 2008.Read More

Report/Brief: Are Lower Response Rates Hazardous to Your Health Survey?

Feb. 28, 2008: SHADAC's Issue Brief #13 examines response completion efforts in three state surveys of health insurance coverage to assess whether refusal conversion and making many calls to the same number alter health survey estimates. February 2008. Read More

Report/Brief: Estimating Private Health Expenditures in Idaho

Dec. 01, 2007: This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, and the Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access." This...Read More

Report/Brief: State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: A Fresh Look at Why State Survey Estimates Differ from CPS

Nov. 09, 2007: SHADAC's Issue Brief #12 compares state survey and CPS estimates of uninsurance, analyze factors with the greatest potential to explain these differences, and discuss the policy implications of this persistent discrepancy. November 2007. Read More

Report/Brief: Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count Uninsured People in America, Aug 2007

Aug. 30, 2007: This brief compares estimates of health insurance coverage from three national surveys sponsored by the federal government, identifies the differences in their estimates of uninsurance, and identifies two common themes: (1) all the surveys report very large numbers of Americans living without...Read More

Report/Brief: Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count Uninsured People in America, Aug 2006

Aug. 10, 2006: This brief compares estimates from four national surveys conducted by the federal government used to estimate the size of the uninsured population, identifies the differences between them, and points out two common threads – all the surveys report very large numbers of Americans living without...Read More

Report/Brief: Using a Premium Assistance Program to Improve Access

Sep. 27, 2005: SHADAC's State Data Series brief discusses the advantages and challenges of premium assistance programs, highlighting experiences of other states and describing Oklahoma’s premium assistance plan for low-income workers and their spouses. September 2005.Read More

Report/Brief: Summary: Retirement Security for Minnesota’s Elderly Population

Jul. 09, 2005: This issue brief focuses on whether Minnesotans will have enough money for their retirement and long-term care needs and estimates how many Minnesotans are at risk of having insufficient resources during their retirement years. March 2005.Read More

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