State and Federal Health Policy
This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, and the Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access."
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Presentation by Lynn Blewett to the Minnesota State Legislature at a joint meeting of the health care and human services finance and policy committees in Saint Paul, MN, February 10 2009.
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Issue Brief #14 provides an introduction to state high-risk pools, how they are financed, the federal role, and some advantages and challenges related to having a state high-risk pool.
SHADAC student paper suggests a number of actions that Minnesota could take to ensure its nonprofit hospitals are adequately benefiting our communities. Five strategies that address the issue of nonprofit accountability are analyzed, including two carried out in Minnesota as well as three… Read more
Call, K. T., N. Lurie, Y. Jonk, R. Feldman and M. D. Finch. 1997. “Who is Still Uninsured in Minnesota: Lessons from State Reform Efforts.” Journal of the American Medical Association 278 (14): 1191-1195.
OBJECTIVE: To describe Minnesota's health care system reform efforts and their implications… Read more
Blewett, L. A. and S. K. Hofrenning. 1997. “Minnesota: The Land of Nonprofit HMOs.” Minnesota Medicine 80 (4): 21-24.
Blewett, L. A., B. C. Gustafson, J. Sonier, and S. D. Leitz. 1999. “State Health Expenditure Accounts.” Health Care Financing Review 21 (2): 65-83.
Minnesota's approach to the development and use of State health expenditure accounts (SHEAs) was developed to assist State policymakers with decisions… Read more
Davidoff, M. J. , E. Ulrich, P. Carrizales, and L. A. Blewett. “Improving Health Care Access for Minnesota’s Growing Latino Community” in Just in Time Research: Resilient Communities. Report # BU-7565. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and… Read more
Blewett, L. A., G. Davidson, M. Brown, and R. Maude-Griffin. 2003. “Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment.” Medical Care Research and Review 60 (4): 509-527.
Hospital provision of uncompensated care is partly a function of insurance coverage of state populations. As… Read more
McAlpine, D. and K. T. Call. 2004. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Utilization of Preventive Services and Barriers to Care among Minnesota Health Care Program Enrollees.” MetroDoctors 6(6): 11.