Marketplace Pulse: The COVID Recession and Uninsurance: What’s in a Model?
In the context of massive income loss and given the health impact of COVID on individuals and families, understanding the the impact on health insurance coverage is critical. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - August 27, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tags: Health Care Quality and Value Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
Making Sense of Competing Estimates: The COVID-19 Recession's Effect on Health Insurance Coverage
With millions of workers out of work, early projections of the effect that COVID-19 would have on health coverage in the U.S. varied widely in both methodological approach and final projections. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - August 27, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Banthin J Tags: Health Care Quality and Value Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
Comparison of 2017 to 2018 Changes in Insurance Coverage Across Surveys
An Urban Institute brief compares changes in health coverage between 2017-2018 as measured by the American Community Survey, the Current Population Survey and the National Health Interview Survey. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - July 22, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Aarons J Tags: Health Care Quality and Value Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
Adults in Families Losing Jobs in the Pandemic Also Lost Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Two analyses provide estimates of changes in health insurance coverage during the pandemic-related recession and examine who is avoiding health care because of cost or concerns about exposure. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - July 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Karpman M Tags: Public and Community Health Health Care Coverage and Access Source Type: news
Marketplace Pulse: The Medicaid Map May Shape Marketplace Entry
Millions of people are losing their jobs, and will also lose their employer sponsored health insurance coverage. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - June 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Hempstead K Tags: Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
The Medicaid Map May Shape Marketplace Entry
Millions of people are losing their jobs, and will also lose their employer sponsored health insurance coverage. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - June 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Hempstead K Tags: Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
The Implications of Medicaid Expansion in the Remaining States: 2020 Update
Even absent the current economic crisis, if the 15 holdout states had expanded Medicaid eligibility as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 3.9 million fewer people would have been uninsured. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - June 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Simpson M Tags: Health Care Coverage and Access Source Type: news
COVID-19 and the Individual Market
With dramatic impacts on population health and the economy, COVID-19 is disrupting every segment of health insurance. The individual insurance market will undoubtedly feel the impact of large changes. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - April 17, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Hempstead K Tags: Health Care Coverage and Access Source Type: news
Precarious Work Schedules and Population Health
Unstable work schedules are associated with poor health outcomes in adults, complexity and informality in child-care arrangements and behavioral problems in children. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - February 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Harknett K Tags: Social Determinants of Health Child and Family Well-Being National Source Type: news
Life Experiences and Income Inequality in the United States
While income inequality increases, a survey done by NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and RWJF finds that the life experiences of people differ drastically across income-groups. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 9, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Tags: Social Determinants of Health Public and Community Health National Source Type: news
School Meals Help Millions Of Kids Grow Up Healthy
Students like healthier lunches and are eating more of them! Join the movement for healthy school foods. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 29, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tags: Childhood Obesity Source Type: news
Healthy Schools Research - Phase II
When schools use a “whole child” approach to learning that promotes students’ social, emotional, physical, mental, and academic development, good health can go hand-in-hand with success in school and life. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - September 1, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Edge Research Tags: Child and Family Well-Being Early Childhood National Source Type: news
Education and Health: Long-Term Trends by Race, Ethnicity, and Geography, 1997-2017
The Urban Institute report shows worsening health for less-educated adults from all racial, ethnic, and geographic groups from 1997 to 2017. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - May 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: McMorrow S Tags: Health Care Quality and Value Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
Building a Culture of Health: A Policy Roadmap to Help All New Jerseyans Live Their Healthiest Lives
Creating health equity through public policies is the focus of a Rutgers' report, which recommends actions that will help all New Jerseyans live their healthiest lives. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - April 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Center for State Health Policy Tags: Child and Family Well-Being Social Determinants of Health New Jersey (NJ) NJ Source Type: news
Marketplace Pulse: Cost-Sharing for Drugs Rises Sharply at Higher Tiers
The major mechanisms that determine out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs are formulary tier placement and the corresponding cost-sharing. Drugs in lower tiers, like generics, usually require a modest co-pay. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 1, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Hempstead K Tags: Health Care Quality and Value Health Care Coverage and Access National Source Type: news
