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The Changing Landscape of Health Care Coverage and Access: Comparing States' Progress in the ACA's First Year
This analysis compares access to affordable health care across U.S. states after the first year of the Affordable Care Act's major coverage expansions. It finds that in 2014, uninsured rates for working-age adults declined in nearly every state compared with 2013. There was at least a three-percentage-point decline in 39 states. For children, uninsured rates declined by at least two percentage points in 16 states. The share of adults who said they went without care because of costs decreased by at least two points in 21 states, while the share of at-risk adults who had not had a recent checkup declined by that same amount in 11 states. Yet there was little progress in expanding access to dental care for adults, which is not a required insurance benefit under the ACA. Wide variation in insurance coverage and access to care persists, highlighting many opportunities for states to improve
Hipparcos red stars in the HpV_{T2} and VI_C systems
For Hipparcos M, S, and C spectral type stars, we provide calibrated
instantaneous (epoch) Cousins color indices using newly derived
photometry. Three new sets of ground-based Cousins data have
been obtained for more than 170 carbon and red M giants. These datasets in
combination with the published sources of photometry served to obtain the
calibration curves linking Hipparcos/Tycho with the Cousins
index. In total, 321 carbon stars and 4464 M- and S-type stars have new
indices. The standard error of the mean is about 0.1 mag or better down
to although it deteriorates rapidly at fainter magnitudes. These
indices can be used to verify the published Hipparcos color
indices. Thus, we have identified a handful of new cases where, instead of the
real target, a random field star has been observed. A considerable fraction of
the DMSA/C and DMSA/V solutions for red stars appear not to be warranted. Most
likely such spurious solutions may originate from usage of a heavily biased
color in the astrometric processing.Comment: 10 figures, 1 electronic table, accepted in A&