Presentation by Julie Sonier, "Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the ACA in California," made to the Let's Get Healthy California Task Force webinar held August 14, 2012. This webinar focused on how California can measure and monitor the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in health insurance coverage and access to health care. 

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Presentation by Joanna Turner, "Results from the Survey of Health Insurance and Program Participation" at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on July 31, 2012 in San Diego, CA.

This brief overviews the SHADAC Projection Model, a complex spreadsheet model that states can use to estimate the impacts of policy changes on health insurance coverage. 

The SHADAC Projection Model provides state officials with the flexibility to update baseline data or test different assumptions, and is based primarily on state-specific data.  This model was developed to address the need among states for analysis that is timely, state-specific, relatively inexpensive, and flexible for testing alternative assumptions to predict the coverage impacts of policy changes at the state level. 

Although the model was constructed specifically to help states project the coverage impacts of the ACA, the approach can be adapted to model the coverage impacts of other reform approaches as well.The brief highlights the model’s approach, data sources, assumptions, and model output.

Call, K. T., Davern, M. E., Klerman, J. A., & Lynch, V. 2012. "Comparing Errors in Medicaid Reporting Across Surveys: Evidence to Date." Health Services Research. 2012 Jul 20. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01446.x.

Presentation by Joanna Turner, "Evaluating Changes to the Health Insurance Questions in the Current Population Survey: State Implications," at AcademyHealth's State Health Research & Policy Interest Group Meeting, June 23, Orlando, FL.