With over 45 million Americans lacking health insurance, over 8.5 million of whom are children, much discussion has been devoted to examining how coverage can be extended to a larger number of the nation’s uninsured. Through large scale empirical analysis, this paper attempts to prove that a decrease in the number of uninsured children in America can be brought about by better facilitation of e...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Uninsured individuals have lower rates of screening colonoscopy (SC), and little is known regarding the pathology results obtained when they undergo colonoscopies. Since 2004, we have participated in a program that offers SC to uninsured New Yorkers; herein, we report our findings. METHODS Uninsured, average-risk patients who were at least 50 years of age underwent SC at our i...

OBJECTIVE To examine the independent and combined contributions of insurance status and supply of health professionals on coverage of antihypertensive treatment among adults in Mexico. DESIGN Population based study. SETTING Mexico. PARTICIPANTS 4032 hypertensive adults (2967 uninsured and 1065 insured): 1065 uninsured adults matched with 1065 adults insured through Seguro Popular, a progr...

ISSUE: The number of Americans insured by Medicaid has climbed to more than 70 million, with an estimated 12 million gaining coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Still, some policymakers have questioned whether Medicaid coverage actually improves access to care, quality of care, or financial protection. GOALS: To compare the experiences of working-age adults who were eit...

Vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic in the United States. Uninsured women are at high risk due to a lower intake of vitamin D and limited sun exposure. We examined the association between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension in 96 uninsured women at a County Free Medical Clinic in urban Michigan. Questionnaires were used to obtain information about demographics, medical history including hyper...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Health Interview Survey •During 2014, 78.1% of adults aged 18-64 were insured at the time of interview and had been insured for more than a year. •About 6.4% of adults were insured at the time of interview but had a period of no insurance in the past year. •About 12.3% of adults were uninsured at the time of interview and had been uninsured for more than a ye...

This paper refines the treatment of Medical Out-of-Pocket (MOOP) spending among the uninsured in measuring poverty, and investigates its net effect on the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). Unlike previous work, this research accounts for insurance coverage type in estimating counterfactual distributions of non-premium MOOP spending for the uninsured using predictive mean matching models. Addi...

Extending health insurance coverage to more children is currently of considerable policy interest as evidenced by the number of bills so far introduced in the 105th Congress. 1 These legislative initiatives propose a range of mechanisms for reducing the number of uninsured children including: tax credits and vouchers for families to assist them in purchasing insurance coverage for their childre...

OBJECTIVE To inform policymakers and child health advocates about children's health insurance coverage in each state as Congress debates proposals to restructure the Medicaid program amidst declining employer-based dependent health insurance coverage. METHODS Multiple years of data from the March supplement of the Current Population Surveys were pooled to yield more reliable estimates of chan...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Health insurance coverage affects hypertension treatment and control, but limited information is available for US adults with hypertension who are classified as underinsured. METHODS AND RESULTS Using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2013 data, we identified adults with self-reported hypertension. On the ba...