Insurance Matters for Low-Income Adults: Results from a Five-State Survey
Report: Insurance Matters For Low-Income Adults: Results From A Five-State Survey
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Report: Insurance Matters For Low-Income Adults: Results From A Five-State Survey
Post-Election Survey of Voters' 1997 Health Care Agenda A nationally representative sample of 1000 voters, conducted immediately after the 1996 election, examines voters' priorities for the new Congress. Balancing the budget, cutting taxes and spending on public education top the list of voters priorities. The survey also looks at public support for regulating managed care, expanding health insurance coverage, Medicare spending, and the welfare reform law passed last year. Topline Download
This study is part of a larger initiative, the Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access project funded by both the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund, to gauge the impact of health restructuring on access and health insurance coverage for low-income populations in seven states through surveys, focus groups and case studies. The aim of the studies is to provide early insights and timely analyses that will assist other states and other efforts…
1996 Update This report is an update to the May 1996 case study on managed care in Minnesota released as part of the Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access Project. Report:
This report is an update to the July 1995 case study on managed care in Tennessee released as part of the Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverge and Access Project.
1996 Update This report is an update to the July 1995 case study on managed care in Oregon released as part of the Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access Project. Report:
Second Report The Southern Institute on Children and Families released the first report on Uninsured Children in the South in November 1992. The report provided estimates of uninsured children by state with age and income breakouts related to Medicaid. This is the second report on Uninsured Children in the South. It provides estimates of uninsured children in each southern state from two perspectives: number of uninsured children in 1993 with percent of uninsured children by…
Over 4 million Southern Children have no Health Insurance Embargoed for release until: 8:30 am, ET, Monday, December 9, 1996 For more information contact: Chris Ferris (202)347-5270 New Study: Despite Recent Gains, South Still Home to Disproportionate Share ofNation's Uninsured Children Washington, D.C. -- A new report, sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation and prepared by the Southern Institute on Children and Families, finds that the South was home to 4.1 million uninsured children in…
Over 4 million children living in the South have no health insurance coverage. While the South experienced a decrease (3 percent) in the number of uninsured children from 1989 to 1993 -- the number of uninsured children nationally increased by 9 percent (Figure 1) -- the region accounts for a dispro-portionately high share of uninsured children in America. Over a third (36 percent) of American children live in the South, but the region accounted…
Getting Behind the Numbers on Access to Care Project Randomly-Selected Verbatim Responses Harvard School of Public Health, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago October 1996 Methodology Note: Survey respondents who reported that they were uninsured and/or had problems getting needed medical care or paying medical bills in the past year were asked the following question during their interview: I would like you to tell me in your…
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