Tackling the Tough Topics: The public plan option, employer pay or play, and paying for health care reform
Presentation by Jean Abraham of the University of Minnesota to the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division in St. Paul, MN, August 18 2009.
Highlights from SHADAC's NHIS State-Level Health Insurance Estimates Conference Call
On July 27, 2009, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) hosted a conference call featuring Robin Cohen, PhD, senior statistician in the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Cohen discussed early release findings from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey, published in the June 2009 report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2008," by Robin A. Cohen and Michael E. Martinez (click here to access the report). The report included information for 20 states with sample sizes large enough to form reliable estimates. The call also included discussion of the report, "Health Insurance Coverage Trends, 1959-2007: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey," which presents long-term insurance coverage trends of the non-elderly (0-64 years) (click here to access the report).
Fifteen state health policy and data analysts, representing 8 of the 20 states included in the early release report, participated in the conference call.
Evaluating Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico’s State Coverage Insurance Program
Presentation by Anna Sommers at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting session, "The Lab Reports: Evaluating State's Actions to Expand Access and Coverage," Chicago, IL, June 30 2009. Also presented at the AcademyHealth adjunct State Health Research and Policy Interest Group meeting panel, "Early Results from the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) Program," June 27 2009.