Medicaid and CHIP
Sunday, March 23, 2025 marked 15 years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. In this post, we take a look at what the Affordable Care Act is, how it’s changed America’s insurance coverage rates, and the impact of the ACA on uninsured populations.
SHADAC researchers have updated our ‘Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile’ to include the latest ACS data from 2019 - 2023.
For almost two decades, SHADAC has created an Excel spreadsheet that details & documents the names of state health insurance programs for all states and DC. This resource provides clear information for both policymakers and consumers, helping them to understand the coverage they do (or do not)… Read more
Newly released Q3 NHIS data show significant changes in health insurance coverage coincident with the Medicaid unwinding. In this blog, we cover relevant changes in health insurance coverage compared to the same period the year prior, and changes by various breakdowns.
Medicaid serves as a vital public health safety net for over 79 million people, including many from historically excluded or marginalized communities. There is a great opportunity to improve Medicaid programs’ accountability for persistent health inequities by confronting the historical...
The Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) is the largest national database of current Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiary information collected from U.S.
On November 8, 2024, The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released quarterly estimates of health insurance coverage from the
The U.S. Census Bureau released 2023 health insurance coverage estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) yesterday, September 12, 2024. These estimates include both national- and state-level information about health insurance coverage by type, as well by certain demographic categories.
With the recent release of survey data from both the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS), SHADAC researchers have begun delving into what this data can tell us about health insurance coverage in 2023 for:
Each year, SHADAC uses data released from the American Community Survey (ACS) via the U.S. Census Bureau's data.census.gov tool to produce estimates of uninsurance at the state and county level.