Publications and Reports
Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured
A project of the Economic and Social Research Institute, Covering America promotes serious consideration of a diverse range of comprehensive proposals to provide affordable health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. The project is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Kaiser Family Foundation: Sicker and Poorer: The Consequences of Being Uninsured
This report synthesizes the major findings of the past 25 years of health services research assessing the most important effects of health insurance.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 2002
"The Uninsured: A Primer - Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance"
This document provides a basic overview of issues involving the uninsured population. Includes a discussions of who are the uninsured, trends in the numbers, the role of employer-sponsored insurance and Medicaid, and the impact of being uninsured. Includes tables and charts with data from the 2001 U.S. Census survey.
Kaiser Family Foundation, December 2003
Covering the Uninsured: How Much Would It Cost?
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured cosponsored a policy briefing with Health Affairs releasing a study on how much it would cost in additional medical care if America's uninsured were provided coverage. The study is part of the Commission's Cost of Not Covering the Uninsured project. This is the third report from the project.
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2003
"Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations"
To help policy-makers, elected officials, and others judge and compare proposals to extend coverage to the nation's 43 million uninsured, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies offers a set of guiding principles and a checklist in a new report, "Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations." The report is the culmination of a series that offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the consequences of lack of health insurance.
Institute of Medicine, January 2004
"Is There Hope For The Uninsured?"
This Web Exclusive article by Uwe E. Reinhardt argues that Neither moral sentiments among a majority of U.S. political leaders, economic self-interest among those who would have to pay for universal health insurance, nor political pressure from the uninsured and likely-to-be-uninsured will provide a sufficiently strong imperative to move this country toward universal coverage.
Health Affairs, August 2003
"Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America"
The fifth report from the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance tallies some of the economic and social losses to the country of maintaining nearly 41 million people without health insurance. It also explores the potential economic and societal benefits that could be realized if everyone had health insurance on a continuous basis.
Institute of Medicine, June 2003
"How Many People Lack Health Insurance and For How Long?"
The report is based on household interviews as part of the annual Current Population Survey. The report finds that between 21 million and 31 million people were uninsured for all of 1998, the most recent year for which reliable comparative data are available. Since then, the number who are uninsured all year probably has not changed substantially, given historical trends. Furthermore, the uninsured population is fluid, with many people gaining and losing coverage.
Congressional Budget Office, May 2003
"A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance"
The fourth report from the Committee on the Consquences of Uninsurance examines the issue of uninsurance from a community perspective, showing that the quality, quantity, and scope of health services within the community can be adversely affected by having a large or growing uninsured population. This report explores the overlapping financial and organizational basis of health services delivery to uninsured and insured populations, the demonstrated and hypothesized effects of community uninsurance on access to health care locally, and the potential spillover effects of uninsurance on a community's economy and the health of its citizens.
Institute of Medicine, March 2003
Kaiser Family Foundation: Striving to Make Ends Meet: Low-Income Families’ Finances and Health Coverage
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released new reports and held a policy briefing on the challenges and tradeoffs low-income families face when dealing with their budgets and the implications for health coverage.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, March 20, 2004
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