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Health Insurance Coverage of the Unemployed
Medical Care, 1985Of 1,332 unemployed individuals in the Detroit area interviewed in late 1983, 51% did not have health insurance. Lack of insurance was directly related to length of unemployment. Of those unemployed 3 months or less, 31% had no insurance, as compared with 56% of those unemployed more than 3 years.
S E, Berki +8 more
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Genetic variation in health insurance coverage
International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2018We provide the first investigation into whether and how much genes explain having health insurance coverage or not and possible mechanisms for genetic variation. Using a twin-design that compares identical and non-identical twins from a national sample of US twins from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, we find that ...
George L, Wehby, Dan, Shane
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Regional Variation in Health Insurance Coverage
Health Affairs, 1989Prologue: Health care costs grew by 9.7 percent in 1987, topping $500 million in overall spending. Insurance premiums continue to rise (12 percent between 1987 and 1988). In an attempt to keep rising health costs under control, employers and insurance companies have instituted mechanisms such as managed care, second surgical opinions, and incentives to
M A, Morrisey, G A, Jensen
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Health insurance coverage and self‐employment
Health Services Research, 2020AbstractBackgroundSelf‐employed workers are 10% of the US labor force, with growth projected over the next decade. Whether existing policy mechanisms are sufficient to ensure health insurance coverage for self‐employed workers, who do not have access to employer‐sponsored coverage, is unclear.ObjectiveTo determine whether self‐employment is associated ...
Seth A. Berkowitz +3 more
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The Health Insurance Coverage of Hispanics
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991To the Editor.— The article by Trevino et al1on health insurance coverage and utilization of health services among Hispanics by national origin leaves many questions to be answered before a realistic approach can be devised. In our area, Mexican-American persons may present as fourth-generation American citizens or as Mexican citizens who arrived a ...
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The Adequacy of College Health Insurance Coverage
Journal of American College Health, 1991This analysis of private health insurance plans offered in 100 four-year colleges and universities in 1988 indicates a tremendous diversity in plan options, benefits covered, cost-sharing requirements, and catastrophic protections. Consistent with relatively low premium prices, most student health insurance plans offer limited benefits and expose ...
M, McManus +3 more
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Health insurance coverage of the working poor
Social Science & Medicine, 1987This study examines the working poor, and their pattern of health insurance coverage. The data indicate that in 1977 almost 22% of the working poor lack health insurance throughout the year. Moreover, children of the working poor were almost twice as likely as children of the poor nonemployed to be without coverage.
M L, Berk, G R, Wilensky
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Pricing of drugs with heterogeneous health insurance coverage [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2012 In this paper, we examine the role of insurance coverage in explaining the generic competition paradox in a two-stage game involving a single producer of brand-name drugs and n quantity-competing producers of generic drugs. Independently of brand loyalty, which some studies rely upon to explain the paradox, we show that heterogeneity in insurance ...
Paul Missios, Ida Ferrara
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Hispanics and Health Insurance Coverage
Medical Care, 2008Many reports have focused attention on the rising percentage of adults in the United States without health insurance. This hides the fact that the uninsured rate for non-Hispanic nonelderly adults has held fairly steady since 1983, while the rate for Hispanics has increased.To document the trends in the coverage rate by source of coverage for different
Matthew S, Rutledge +1 more
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A Shifting Picture Of Health Insurance Coverage
Health Affairs, 1995Data from the Current Population Survey are used in this DataWatch to explore the changing composition of health insurance coverage of the U.S. nonelderly population. The authors analyze coverage trends across various subpopulations for 1988-1993. During this time significant declines in employer-sponsored coverage coincided with equally significant ...
J, Holahan, C, Winterbottom, S, Rajan
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