Health Insurance Coverage and the Uninsured
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand access to affordable health insurance for millions of Americans.
SHADAC has tracked trends in ESI health insurance costs for years using the latest Medical Expenditure Panel Survey–Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) data. According to recently released 2025 MEPS data, ESI family plan premiums grew at over twice the rate seen in 2024—read on for more details.
The latest Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) shows that 12.3% of insured Minnesotans are worried about losing health insurance coverage in 2025, a statistically significant increase from 2023. Top concerns include job loss, loss of eligibility, and affordability. Learn more in this blog.
With chronic diseases impacting millions and costing Americans trillions of dollars annually, it’s important to understand this widespread public health issue. So: What is chronic disease? SHADAC explains and explores chronic disease data by state, subpopulation, and more in our latest blog.
The 2024 Minnesota Healthcare Experiences Survey was fielded to gain a better understanding of Minnesotans’ experiences of discrimination in health care; nearly half of Minnesotans reported they experienced discrimination while seeking health care. Learn more key findings in the full blog.
Passed in July 2025, H.R. 1 dictates several large-scale structural changes to the Medicaid program to be implemented over the next months and years. In SHVS’ latest EP, SHADAC authors review considerations and options that states can use to proactively track administrative costs related to H.R. 1… Read more
The Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile allows states, health insurance navigators, and researchers to easily access important and comparable information about their communities. Learn more about using the profile tool and its accompanying map in this blog.
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released the first health insurance coverage estimates for 2025 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. In this blog, our staff review some key coverage-related findings and changes.
SHADAC consistently updates measures on our data tool, State Health Compare (SHC), in order to provide users with the most up-to-date available data. In this post, we review the health data sets and measures that have been recently updated with data from the ACS, CPS, BRFSS, and more.
SHADAC is pleased to announce that the ‘Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile’ has been updated with 2024 American Community Survey estimates, thanks to the continued support from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation.