Publications and Reports
IOM - Consequences of Uninsurance
This study discusses the findings from a three-year study of the uninsured conducted with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A 16-member Committee issued six reports between September 2001 and January 2004.
Institute of Medicine, January 2004
"Small But Significant Steps to Help the Uninsured"
This report from Jeanne M. Lambrew and Arthur Garson, Jr., outlines a number of approaches to address the issue of the uninsured and suggests low-cost policies that could provide relief in this
environment.
Commonwealth Fund, January 2003
"Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured," vol. 2
This paper, the second in a series, is a set of three new proposals from distinguished health analysts who outline policy options for broadly extending health insurance coverage. This volume includes three commentaries by distinguished observers of the health system about the challenges of achieving major coverage expansions and how they can be addressed.
Economic and Social Research Institute, November 2002
"Nine Billion Dollars a Year to Cover the Uninsured: Possible Common Ground for Significant, Incremental Progress"
This paper suggests that a variety of approaches could build on earlier, bipartisan accomplishments and cover a large group of uninsured. Suggested approaches include: individual choice strategies, hybrid strategies, and state-based strategies.
Economic and Social Research Institute, October 2002
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
"Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late"
Part of a series of reports examining the consequences of being uninsured for individuals, families, communities and society as a whole.
Institute of Medicine, 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
"Changes In Insurance Coverage: 1994–2000 And Beyond"
Report reveals that although the number of Americans with employer coverage increased dramatically, the rate of uninsurance remained essentially unchanged.
Health Affairs, April 3, 2002
Kaiser Family Foundation: How Private Health Coverage Works: A Primer
This primer examines the structure and operation of private health insurance—including the types of organizations that provide it, how managed care is delivered, and how risk pools work—and describes how private health insurance coverage is regulated under state and federal laws. The primer explains how the current nature of private insurance relates to key issues facing federal and state policymakers.
Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2002
"Treading Water: American's Access to Needed Medical Care, 1997-2001"
Report finds that despite unprecedented economic growth, low unemployment and fewer uninsured people, Americans’ ability to get needed medical care failed to improve significantly between 1997 and 2001.
Center for Studying Health System Change, March 2002
"Health Insurance Coverage in America: 2000 Data Update"
Chart book provides year 2000 data on health insurance coverage, with special attention to the uninsured. It includes trends and major shifts in coverage and a profile of the uninsured population.
Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2002
Kaiser Family Foundation: The Uninsured and Their Access to Health Care
Fact sheet outlining the uninsured problem using data from 2000.
Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2002
"Health Care Access for Uninsured Adults: A Strong Safety Net Is Not the Same as Insurance"
Brief examines the extent to which differences in the safety-net environment account for differences in the uninsureds' access to and use of health care.
The Urban Institute, January 2002
"Solving the Health Insurance Problem for Working Americans"
Chapter discusses how tax credits are a crucial element of the solution lowering the ranks of the uninsured.
The Heritage Foundation, 2001
"A Perfect Storm: the Confluence of Forces Affecting Health Care Coverage"
This report examines the confluence of powerful economic forces, fueled by the terrorist attacks of September
11, have unleashed a “perfect storm” that could increase dramatically the number of
uninsured people in the U.S. -- with as many as 6 million people in total losing their
coverage in 2001 and 2002.
National Coalition on Health Care, November, 2001
"Covering the Low-Income Uninsured: Assessing the Alternatives"
This issue brief describes and analyzes expansions of Medicaid and SCHIP, tax credits for individually-purchased insurance, and tax credits for employment-based health insurance as options to expand health coverage of the low-income population.
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2001
"Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured," vol. 1
This paper is a set of 10 comprehensive health coverage proposals that seek to move the country toward universal health coverage. The proposals include a number that are broad in scope and go beyond incremental reform. Included are new approaches to using federal income tax credits, expanding Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, implementing Medicare buy-ins, and organizing insurance purchasing.
Economic and Social Research Institute, June 2001
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