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Jan. 7, 2011: Several resources for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) have recently been released.  These include: tables for access to care, quality of care and expenditures for 2008; several statistical briefs, notably, "Health Insurance Status of Young Adults, Ages 22-26, 2008… Read More

Jan. 6, 2011: January 6, 2011: In his first official act as Minnesota Governor, Mark Dayton ordered an expansion of Medicaid coverage for poor Minnesotans yesterday.  It is projected that the expansion will immediately add 95,000 childless adults with incomes at or below 75 percent of the federal… Read More

Jan. 4, 2011: January 4, 2011: The February 2011 SHARE-sponsored special issue of Health Services Research (HSR) is now available online.  This special issue includes eight articles that present and analyze findings from the first round of SHARE-funded research.  The articles focus on state-level… Read More

Jan. 1, 2011: Sommers A, Abraham JM, Spicer L, Mikow A, Spaulding-Bynon M.  "Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico's State Coverage Insurance Program: Lessons for Federal Reform." 2011 Feb.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01216.x Read More

Dec. 28, 2010: December 28, 2010: The Joint Executive Committee and Plenary Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) met on December 16, 2010, and adopted a model law on health insurance exchanges. The American Health Benefit Exchange Model Act was developed… Read More

Dec. 23, 2010: SHADAC's offices will be closed from December 24-31, reopening as usual on January 3, 2011.  As such our phones will not be answered during this time.  Some of our staff will respond to e-mail messages on December 28-30; if you do not hear back we recommend that any general… Read More

Dec. 22, 2010: December 22, 2010: The National Center for Health Statistics has released their semi-annual update to the wireless substitution estimates, reflecting the first half of 2010.  The publication, "Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview… Read More

Dec. 22, 2010: These files provide a summary of uninsurance estimates by state for the 2009 American Community Survey.  The estimates are available in both PDF and Excel versions.  The source for these estimates is SHADAC's Data Center. Read More

Dec. 20, 2010: December 20, 2010: The 2010 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey (MHIS) numbers were announced last week, revealing that an estimated 98.1 percent of all Massachusetts residents were covered by health insurance during the survey period (Spring 2010)—the highest coverage rate in the United… Read More

Dec. 14, 2010: SHADAC has updated its Data Center, an online table and chart generator tool, to include 2009 estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS).  This update also includes revised 2008 ACS estimates with the logical edits applied to assign some uninsured to coverage, as was done by the… Read More

Dec. 14, 2010: December 14, 2010: A Virginia federal district court judge ruled yesterday that Section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exceeds the constitutional power of Congress. Section 1501—also known as the coverage mandate—requires that almost every U.S. citizen… Read More

Dec. 10, 2010: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for the simplification of enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP and the Exchange, building in part on express lane eligibility principles of minimizing the administrative requirements for applicants and facilitating the use of information from existing state and federal… Read More

Dec. 10, 2010: 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

Dec. 8, 2010: Presentation by Stan Dorn to Maryland's Health Care Reform Coordinating Council at August 31, 2010, "Entry to Coverage" workshop.  Mr. Dorn cites lessons learned from enrollment initiatives in Massachusetts and Louisiana, including the importance of prioritizing affordability and reducing… Read More

Dec. 6, 2010: SHADAC and SHARE News, December 2, 2010. Download a PDF version of this file.   Read More

Dec. 1, 2010: December 1, 2010: Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal approved the operating plan yesterday for a health insurance demonstration project called “Healthy Frontiers.” The state-funded Healthy Frontiers will provide limited insurance coverage to working adults with incomes below 200… Read More

Dec. 1, 2010: Johnson PJ, Blewett LA, Davern M. 2010. "Disparities in Public Use Data Availability for Race, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups: National Surveys for Healthcare Disparities Research."  Medical Care 48(12):1122-1127. Read More

Nov. 29, 2010: November 29, 2010: Stan Dorn, of the Urban Institute, has released an analysis of Connecticut’s options for its SustiNet health plan, a public insurance program through which the state hopes to attain universal coverage for its residents.  The analysis shows that the state could… Read More

Nov. 24, 2010: Maryland’s Health Care Reform Coordinating Council (HCRCC) has developed a financial modeling tool for use in estimating the fiscal impact of federal health reform. The tool aims to identify how health reform will change the state’s budget by comparing costs, savings and revenues related to reform… Read More

Nov. 23, 2010: November 23, 2010: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued initial guidance for states about the establishment of health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).   HHS’s guidance document is meant to assist states with their overall planning in… Read More