State-Level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing

Colin Winterbottom

ISBN 10: 0877666334 / ISBN 13: 9780877666332

Published by Urban Inst Pr, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: State-Level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing
• Publisher: Urban Inst Pr
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877666334
• ISBN 13: 9780877666332
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This completely revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive picture of the current health system at the state level. The first edition has proven invaluable to state policymakers considering alternatives for state-level health care reforms. As the debate over the health care crisis continues, this new edition provides completely updated state-level data on the insurance coverage of different groups; the characteristics of the uninsured; Medicaid enrollees, expenditures, and fee levels; health status; health care costs, access and utilization; and state-specific demographics and economic profiles. It also reports totals for the entire United States and averages for the nine Census regions. Each section has a short introduction discussing the measures included and highlighting particularly significant results. Praise for the first edition: "Incredible coordinating tool. If all states can be convinced to use this document, it will vastly simplify federal and state-by-state planning." --John E. Luehrs, National Governors' Association

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Preface

The first two editions of the State-Level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing provided state and national policymakers with a wide array of useful data on health insurance coverage, health Status, and state demographic information. This edition provides more recent data related to the same issues, with some important exceptions. First, as discussed in Appendix Two, most of the tables in this edition use only two years of the Current Population Survey (CPS) instead of three; changes in the CPS sample frame meant that only the two most recent years of data could be used consistently. Second, Section B has been completely revised to reflect the shift in policy focus from employer-sponsored coverage initiatives to states' growing emphasis on increasing health insurance coverage for the low-income population. Finally, we have applied more stringent criteria for the "reliability" of survey-based estimates and do not show those based on either small weighted or unweighted counts as described in Appendix Two. We generally discourage using those tables that have appeared in previous editions with those in this volume for time-trend calculations. While we have made every attempt to maintain consistent definitions, some deviations were necessary for purposes of generating reliable estimates.