Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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Fair Pricing Law Prompts Most California Hospitals To Adopt Policies To Protect Uninsured Patients From High Charges
June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
This article summarizes California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act, which was passed in 2006 with the intent of protecting low-income uninsured patients from having to pay hospitals’ full billed charges.
Keeping Kids Covered: Number of Children with Health Coverage Increases During Economic Downturn
August 29, 2012 | Report
This report analyzes recent trends in health insurance coverage for children at the state level between 2008 and 2010. The percentage of children with public coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) increased subst ...
Uninsured Veterans and Family Members
May 1, 2012 | Report
One in 10 of the nation's 12.5 million nonelderly veterans report either not having health insurance coverage or using VA health care.
Use of the Integrated Health Interview Series
March 30, 2012 | Journal Article
The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has collected annual data on Americans since 1957 but multiyear analysis of the data has been problematic. This paper examines the recent Integrated Health Interview Series, which provides online access to ...
Health Care Financing and Organization Grant Recipients Study the Working Uninsured and their Dependents
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Linda J. Blumberg, PhD, and Len M. Nichols, PhD.
RWJF Statement Regarding the Number of Americans Without Health Insurance
September 13, 2011 | Story
The following is a statement by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, regarding the 49.9 million uninsured Americans in 2010.
The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates
July 6, 2011 | Issue Brief
In this paper, researchers address this question using a pay-or-play policy implemented in San Francisco in 2008 that requires employers to either provide health benefits or contribute to a public option health plan.
State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2009 American Community Survey
July 1, 2011 | Survey/Poll
2010 ACS and CPS numbers to be released in September experts will provide insight in September 23 webinar.
What Factors Affect Health Care Expenditures and Health?
April 15, 2011 | Program Result Report
Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.
A Partisan Divide on the Uninsured
April 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The partisan split in Congress over health reform may reflect a broader divide among the public in attitudes toward the uninsured.