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State Health Compare Users Can Now Explore Unemployment by Race/Ethnicity

SHADAC has updated our State Health Compare online data tool to provide estimates of unemployment according to race and ethnicity. Previously, State Health Compare users could analyze unemployment nationwide and at the state level for years 2000 to 2019, but subgroup analyses were not possible.… Read More

Update to SHADAC’s Minnesota Uninsured Profile Tool Features Customized Legislative District Infographics Aimed at Addressing Disparities

Our research team at SHADAC has continued its partnership with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Minnesota to complete a new tool that provides critical information on the uninsured populations in Minnesota at the legislative district level. Using the most up-to-date estimates available from… Read More

Minnesota and U.S. Uninsurance Rates Grew in Years Leading up to Pandemic

Children’s uninsurance rate held steady recently, while non-elderly adults’ rate increased in 2019 Image For the third consecutive year, the United States' uninsurance rate increased significantly, reaching 9.2 percent in 2019, or roughly 27.9 million… Read More

November 10th Webinar - "Overdose Crisis in Transition: Changing Trends in a Widening Drug Death Epidemic"

For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing epidemic of drug overdose deaths. But even by standards of the rapidly evolving opioid crisis, mortality data from 2018 illustrate a stark transformation: While the U.S. recorded rare declines in death rates from prescription… Read More

Using 1115 Waivers to Fund State Uncompensated Care Pools

Image What is an Uncompensated Care Pool? Uncompensated care pools (UC pools, or UCPs) are one strategy used by states in order to fund care for the uninsured and the underinsured. The pools are primarily used to pay providers for a portion of the… Read More

October 21st Webinar - Rising Suicide Rates: Examining Trends and Variations through State-level Data

  Over the past two decades, the rise in suicide death rates has continued along an accelerating climb. According to new vital statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States suicide rate reached another historic high of 14.2 per 100… Read More

Eleven Updated Measures are Now Available on State Health Compare

Estimates for a majority of measures from several categories (Access to Care, Cost of Care, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes) have now been updated on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool, from two related surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the Youth Risk… Read More

Comparing Federal Government Surveys That Count the Uninsured: 2020

Image With the release of new insurance coverage estimates from surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), SHADAC has… Read More

Exploring Strategies to Fill Gaps in Medicaid Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data

The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies. It was first published on October 1, 2020. Authors: Elizabeth Lukanen and Emily Zylla, SHADAC As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face longstanding… Read More

October 13th Webinar - "From Telephone to Multi-mode Surveys: State Case Studies and Conversations"

Date: October 13, 2020Time: 11:30 AM Central / 12:30 PM EasternFor years response rates for random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys have been falling and costs of conducting these surveys have been rising. With growing concerns about sample coverage and costs, many ongoing government,… Read More

New Subsidized Marketplace Data and Other Data Tables Now Available from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS)

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released 2019 estimates of income, poverty, and health insurance coverage from both the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) and the American Community Survey (ACS). Along with the new estimates, several new data sets and… Read More

September 23rd Webinar - An Annual Conversation with the U.S. Census Bureau: 2019 Health Insurance Coverage Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) & Current Population Survey (CPS)

On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, SHADAC researchers and U.S. Census Bureau experts held a webinar that examined the new 2019 health insurance coverage data at both the national and the state level, as well as by coverage type, from both the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current… Read More

2019 ACS Tables: State and County Uninsured Rates, with Comparison Year 2018

The interactive map on this page links to tables containing state and county uninsurance estimates for 2019. These estimates come from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool. Click on a state below to see state and county… Read More

2019 ACS: Insurance Coverage Overall Fell Nationwide and among the States, with Private and Public Coverage Declines Seen at the State Level

The U.S. Census Bureau has released 1-year estimates from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), including state-level information about health insurance coverage by type. This post focuses on private and public coverage. The State Story Nationally, the health insurance coverage rate was 90… Read More

Factors in Financial Burdens Related to Health Care for Californians

Image Though robust Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation efforts in California have resulted in larger numbers of residents with health care coverage, Californians are now facing coverage-related issues regarding rising costs of care and… Read More

2019 ACS: Rising National Uninsured Rate Echoed Across 19 States; Virginia Only State to See Decrease (Infographics)

New 2019 health insurance coverage estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) were released this morning, and findings from the survey show the national rate of uninsured increased from 8.9% in 2018 to 9.2% in 2019.   This 0.3 percentage-point increase… Read More

State Health Compare Adds New Social Determinants Measure: Percent of Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences

A new State Health Compare measure examines the prevalence and degree of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among different demographic groups, with estimates available across the states and over time.     The ACEs estimates in State Health Compare are generated through… Read More

Expert Perspective: States’ Reporting of COVID-19 Health Equity Data (State Health & Value Strategies Cross-Post)

The following content is cross-posted from State Health and Value Strategies. It was first published on April 22, 2020. Authors: Emily Zylla, Lacey Hartman & Lindsey Theis - SHADAC Throughout the coronavirus pandemic SHADAC has been tracking which states are regularly… Read More

2019 NHIS Full-Year Insurance Coverage Estimates Early Release: Uninsurance Increases, Variation among Public and Private Coverage

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released health insurance coverage estimates for 2019 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) as part of the NHIS Early Release Program. These are both the first available full-year coverage estimates for 2019 from a federal survey as well… Read More

State-level Trends in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance (ESI), 2015-2019

ESI PRODUCTS State Profiles Two-page “at a glance” graphic profiles of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) coverage trends between 2015 and 2019 for each state, including statistical comparisons of coverage changes from 2018 to 2019. Download a single file for all 50 states and D.… Read More