This report presents findings from a statewide survey of 4,902 Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) enrollees designed to assess racial and ethnic disparities in the use of preventive and other health services, as well as barriers that discourage the use of those services. December 2003.

This report was released for the 2008 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. The report includes a state-by-state analysis on children’s access to health care services, especially children who suffer from chronic illness. August 2008.

Survey estimates of public health insurance program enrollment tend to be lower than those compiled from administrative enrollment data for those same programs, a discordance which is particularly apparent for Medicaid. The crude Medicaid undercount in the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS), the most prominently used survey for policy research that measures health insurance coverage, was 32 percent in both 2000 and 2001. Given the important uses of the CPS data, improved understanding of the undercount in the CPS is crucial. This paper presents parameters from two logistic regression models. These parameters can be used to predict the probability that the Medicaid administrative data imply that a CPS sample member actually had Medicaid. Originally published October 2007; revised with a minor code revision for Model 2 in November 2008 (revisions are reflected in the attachments).

The second download available on this page is a text file with the Stata code for this adjustment.

This report was released for the 2006 Covering Kids & Families Back-to-School Campaign, a national effort to enroll eligible children in public coverage programs during the back-to-school season.  This initiative is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The research in this report presents the the number of uninsured children, publicly insured children and privately insured children in the U.S. and by state in 2003-2004, using data from the CPS, compared to the same information for 1997-1998. This comparison documents coverage patterns before and after the implementation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  August 2006.

Call, K.T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, L. Blewett, and R. Nyman. "The Medicaid Undercount and Bias to Estimates of Uninsurance: New Estimates and Existing Evidence." Health Services Research 43(3): 901-14.