Safety Net
Congress has still not fully reauthorized the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and states are working to figure out how to keep their kids covered. CHIP provides essential coverage for millions of our nation’s poorest children and should not be used as a bargaining tool in federal budget… Read more
From the Desk of Lynn Blewett
Minnesota insurance companies filed their preliminary premium rates for plans sold on the individual health insurance market. The rate increases for 2018 are much lower than the rate increases seen last year when premiums increases were as high as 50 to 67 percent.… Read more
A new SHADAC brief examines the implications of an Affordable Care Act repeal for Minnesota. The authors, SHADAC Research Assistant Robert Hest and SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett, present an overview of the the impact of the ACA's coverage expansions in the state and highlight the potential for… Read more
Seven research teams are presenting their SHARE-funded work at the 2016 American Society of Health Economics Conference (ASHEcon), which takes place this year at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania from June 12th through the 15th. We encourage… Read more
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The SHARE grant program has released a new brief examining the use of administrative data for the purpose of state health policy analysis. In particular, the brief highlights the hospital administrative data available from the Healthcare Cost… Read more
This brief from the SHARE grant program examines a rich source of US hospital administrative data--the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)--and provides an example of how a SHARE-funded research project led by Dr. Peter Cunningham at Virginia Commonwealth University… Read more
The November 2015 SHADAC Newsletter is now available.
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News from the SHARE grant program and our grantees.
Announcements
SHARE Panel at APPAM Will Consider Early Post-Expansion Utilization Data
Four researchers will present findings from their SHARE-funded studies on a panel at the 2015 Fall Research Conference hosted by the … Read more
Fried, B., Kemmick Pintor, J., Graven, P., & Blewett, L.A. 2014. "Implementing Federal Health Reform in the States: Who Is Included and Excluded and What Are Their Characteristics?" Health Affairs. Published online before print. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12232