Presentation by Lynn Blewett at the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) Annual State Health Policy Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 5, 2010.  This work includes preliminary estimates of the number of low-income non-elderly adults who will be excluded from Medicaid because of their immigration status and describes characteristics of these excluded immigrant adults.
 

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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 than non-white or Hispanic children to be insured, and children in the lowest income group were significantly more likely to be uninsured. Yet these patterns did not hold true for all states, even after controlling for employment status, industry and education level of parents.

Presentation by Lynn Blewett at the National Center for Health Statistics conference in Washington, DC, August 17 2010.

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LEADING HEALTH POLICY RESEARCHER JOINS TEAM OF STATE HEALTH ACCESS DATA ASSISTANCE CENTER
Sharon Long Joins SHADAC, Releases New Reports on Effectiveness of Young Adult Provisions in Massachusetts’ Health Reform

The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is pleased to announce the addition of Sharon K. Long Ph.D. to its team. With more than 25 years of experience conducting quantitative and qualitative policy research, Long arrives from the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where she was a senior fellow in the Health Policy Center. While at Urban, Long focused on a range of health policy issues in areas such as Medicaid, managed care, access to care, state health policy and health reform - in particular, gaining national attention for her research into Massachusetts’ health reform program.

Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and housed within the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, SHADAC works to bridge the gap between health insurance data and the policy-making process. Long joins SHADAC as a senior economist and a professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health.

"We are over the moon about having Sharon on board," said Lynn Blewett, Ph.D., principal investigator and director at SHADAC, and professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. "She is a talented, well-regarded researcher and author, and her expertise will be instrumental in our continued work to bridge the gap between research and health policy."

The State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE), which operates out of SHADAC, and the Urban Institute released two new reports today by lead author Sharon Long, focusing on the demographics of uninsured populations in Massachusetts, and the importance of implementing young adult provisions in Massachusetts’ health reform.

• Read "Massachusetts Health Reform in 2008: Who are the Remaining Uninsured Adults?"
• Read "The Importance of Young Adult Provisions in Massachusetts’ Health Reform"

Long holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information on SHADAC, visit www.shadac.org.
 

Presentation by Elizabeth Lukanen at the State Health Access Program (SHAP) All Grantee Meeting in Arlington, VA, July 26 2010.