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Report/Brief: Medicare Impact Profile

Oct. 09, 2008: The State Medicare Impact Profile, prepared by SHADAC for the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, is the first systematic look at the impact of Medicare reform from a state policy and local market perspective. It presents a unique contribution to discussions about Medicare reform policy from a state...Read More

Report/Brief: Measuring Race and Ethnicity in Health Insurance Surveys

Oct. 09, 2008: This report from the SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series contains a discussion of the considerations related to designing surveys to measure race and ethnicity in surveys of health insurance coverage. May 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: Measuring Income in Health Insurance Surveys

Oct. 09, 2008: This report from the SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series contains a discussion of the considerations related to designing surveys to measuring income in surveys of health insurance coverage. May 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: Measuring Health Insurance Coverage in Surveys

Oct. 09, 2008: This report from the SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series contains a discussion of the considerations related to designing surveys to measure health insurance coverage. May 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: Whose Kids are Covered?

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2007 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 contains graphs on the characteristics...Read More

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

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