Medicaid
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand access to affordable health insurance for millions of Americans.
Increasingly high and unaffordable health care costs can lead to forgoing medical care, which can impact overall health. This blog explores rates of forgone care due to cost over time, by state, and by subgroup using SHADAC’s State Health Compare.
With widespread changes to the health insurance landscape as a result of H.R. 1, understanding impacts to enrollment, expenditures, and eligibility is essential. In this brief, we give key considerations and guidance for states looking to create a detailed & effective monitoring strategy.
Compiled by researchers at SHADAC, this resource documents state-specific names for public health insurance programs (i.e., Medicaid and CHIP) as well as the names of state-based Marketplaces (i.e., SBMs) for private health insurance coverage purchase for all 50 states and D.C. in an easy-to-use… Read more
Children's health insurance coverage in 2024 saw uninsurance rise for the second straight year for both all and low-income children. Learn the details and state-level findings in this blog.
This blog reviews SHADAC analysis of 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) data on health insurance coverage rates, including detail by state, age group, and coverage type.
The following blog post and infographic explores newly released 2024 Current Population Survey (CPS) data, including changes in national-level health insurance coverage rates by demographic characteristics such as age, employment, race/ethnicity, immigration status, poverty status, and Medicaid… Read more
On Thursday, September 25th at 1:00 PM CST, SHADAC hosted a webinar covering the release of the latest health insurance coverage estimates from 2024. The estimates come from two key federal surveys conducted by the U.S.
What is Medicaid, exactly? Who is eligible? How is Medicaid funded? And why does Medicaid vary from state to state? In honor of Medicaid’s 60th anniversary, this blog walks through the origins of the Medicaid program, how Medicaid is funded, and how its flexibility supports innovation.
Housing affordability is a key social determinant of health. Housing and health are connected – in this blog, we take a look at housing affordability in the U.S. by state and subpopulation.