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SHADAC State Reform Survey Workgroup Report

SHADAC assembled a State Survey Reform Workgroup in the fall of 2010 to share information between states that are considering how state health surveys can best capture progress on national and state health reform efforts. This report provides a summary of the workgroup membership and activities,… Read More

Trends in U.S. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

This report examines state-level trends in employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) and the factors that influence ESI. Download the report. Most nonelderly Americans who have health insurance are covered through an employer, and ESI will continue to be a major source of health insurance even after… Read More

A Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the Affordable Care Act in California

This report, funded by a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, makes recommendations for how California can measure the impact of health reform in three areas: Health insurance coverage; Affordability and comprehensiveness of health insurance coverage; and Access to health care services… Read More

Monitoring the Impacts of Health Reform at the State Level: Using Federal Survey Data

This brief identifies state-level information currently available from seven federal surveys to help states monitor the impact of health reform and to compare the impacts of reform across states.  The brief provides an overview of the health insurance coverage and the health care access, use… Read More

2009 SHARE Grant Award Information

This document outlines the first round of SHARE-funded research projects, detailing each study's research goals, principal investigator(s), and grantee institution. Read More

A Summary of the American Community Survey Logical Edits Applied to Health Insurance Coverage

This technical brief describes the logical edits applied to the health insurance coverage items in the American Community Survey.  Beginning in 2009 the Census Bureau added a series of logical edits to the editing routine for health insurance coverage.  These logical edits, which were… Read More

Health Insurance Exchanges - How Economic and Financial Modeling Can Support State Implementation

This brief addresses some of the issues that states will need to consider in making decisions about the health insurance exchanges that are a central part of the health insurance coverage strategy in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted in March of 2010. Specifically,… Read More

Data Center Enhancements and Revisions 2010

This technical brief describes several enhancements and revisions have been made to SHADAC’s Data Center in October 2010. The Data Center is a web-based table generator tool allowing users to customize tables and graphs of health insurance coverage estimates within a pre-defined set of parameters.… Read More

Health Insurance Exchanges: Implementation and Data Considerations for States

SHADAC Issue Brief #23 presents key implementation and data considerations for states as they contemplate the creation and role of health insurance exchanges.  Establishing health insurance exchanges is integral to implementing reforms under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act… Read More

State-Level Variation in Children’s Health Insurance: A Deeper Look

This report uses data from the 2008 American Community Survey to showcase significant variations in health insurance status, both within and across states by age, race/ethnicity and family income. Nationally, older children were more likely to be uninsured, white children were much more likely… Read More

Comparing Health Insurance Estimates from the ACS and the CPS

The purpose of this brief is to introduce health policy data users to the American Community Survey, explain how it differs from the Current Population Survey, and provide guidance on issues to consider in deciding when to use each survey.   September 2010. Download a PDF of the brief. Read More

Comparing State Uninsurance Estimates: SHADAC-Enhanced CPS and CPS

SHADAC has developed and made available a Current Population Survey (CPS) data series (the "SHADAC-Enhanced CPS") that makes several adjustments to the CPS estimates to account for survey changes over time.  This brief compares the CPS estimates as published by the Census Bureau to the SHADAC-… Read More

The Importance of Young Adult Provisions in Massachusetts' Health Reform

Massachusetts enacted a comprehensive health care reform bill in 2006 that has moved the state to near-universal health insurance coverage. Although estimates to date have focused on the overall effect of the Massachusetts health reform package there is substantial policy interest in determining… Read More

Reaching Uninsured Children: Iowa’s Income Tax Return and CHIP Project

This issue brief details the collaborative effort between Iowa's Department of Revenue and Department of Human Services to use tax information to reach out to uninsured children who are potentially eligible for the state’s CHIP (“hawk-i”) and Medicaid programs. The brief… Read More

SNACC Phase VI Report

Report for Phase VI of the SNACC Medicaid Undercount project:  Comparing MSIS and MEPS.  This phase replicates the Phase II process but uses the calendar year 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data. The intent of Phase VI is to determine how the MEPS estimate of the number of… Read More

SNACC Phase V Report

Report for Phase V of the SNACC Medicaid Undercount project: Comparing MSIS and the CPS ASEC, 2003-2004.  This phase V is a repeat of Phase II with later years of the CPS. The intent of this phase is to see if the discrepancy measured and explained in Phase II changes noticeably in the size or… Read More

Health Security Index, July 2009-June 2010

This report provides a 12-month historical overview (July 1009-June 2010) of Americans’ opinions about their experiences and expectations relating to health care. The report is based on The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index), a… Read More

Issues for State High-Risk Pools with Implementation of National Health Reform

SHADAC Issue Brief #20 addresses the history of state high-risk pools, provides information on individual state high-risk pools, states’ decisions about participation in the temporary high-risk pool created by national health reform, and concerns about the transition from state high-risk pools to… Read More

Income Data for Policy Analysis

This report is a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the income data and their utility for policy-related analyses in eight major surveys: the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS); the American… Read More

Comparison of the Health Insurance Coverage Estimates

This report provides a comparison of four national surveys that measure health insurance coverage to asess fundamental methodological issues that impact the variation in health insurance coverage estimates seen among these surveys.  The surveys compared include the Current Population Survey’s… Read More