Presentation by Elizabeth Lukanen at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), in Boston, MA, June 27 2010.

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 guaranteed issue in the individual market.

This publication is a map of sub-state uninsurance estimates for Minnesota’s nonelderly population (age 0-64 years) from the 2008 American Community Survey (ACS).  The statewide uninsurance rate was 9.6 percent for this same population and data source.

The large sample size of the American Community Survey makes it possible to produce health insurance estimates for sub-state geographic areas. These areas are referred to as public use microdata areas (PUMA), a geography unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau that represents about 100,000 people.  In most cases the PUMA are groups of counties and tend to follow county lines; in the urban areas the PUMA are portions of a county.

More information on the American Community Survey is available on SHADAC's ACS resource page.

Blewett LA, Johnson PJ, Mach AL. 2010. "Immigrant Children's Access to Health Care: Differences by Global Region of Birth."  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 21(2 Suppl):13-31.

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 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS), the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey’s Household Component (MEPS), and six state surveys.   This report was prepared by SHADAC researchers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). November 2007.