4 research outputs found
Aiming Higher: Results From a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009
Ranks states on thirty-eight indicators of healthcare access, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives. Examines trends, including eroding adult insurance coverage, poor care coordination, and rising costs
The Impact of State Dependent Coverage Expansions on Young Adult Insurance Status: Further Analysis
Outlines how state initiatives to expand dependent coverage affected young adults' rates of uninsurance and of employer-sponsored coverage. Considers differential time effects and implications for national reform provisions to expand coverage to age 26
Aiming Higher: Results From a State Scorecard on Health System Performance
Assesses state variation across key dimensions of health system performance -- access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives -- and assigns overall state rankings as well as ranks on each dimension
Dependent Coverage Expansions: Estimating the Impact of Current State Policies
Presents preliminary findings on common provisions in state regulations of dependent health coverage and discusses the analytic approach to estimating the impact of state policy changes on young adults