Racial Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures in the United States: A Historical Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Thomasson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Expenditures

Racial Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures in the United States

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Thomasson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Expenditures ◽  
Health Care Spending ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Racial Gap

This article uses a unique data set from 1957 to examine the racial gap in health insurance coverage and the extent to which that gap influenced racial differences in health care spending. Results indicate that black households in 1957 were statistically significantly less likely to purchase health insurance than white households, even after controlling for differences in income, years of schooling, age, family size, marital status, and other personal and job-related characteristics. Findings in the article also provide weak support for the hypothesis that a racial gap in health insurance coverage contributed to racial differences in health care spending between blacks and whites; even after controlling for differences in income, education, and other characteristics, racial differences in medical expenditures were smaller for insured than for uninsured families, although the result is not statistically significant.

The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on the Sources of Health Insurance Coverage of Undergraduate Students in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755872110158
Author(s):  
Priyanka Anand ◽  
Dora Gicheva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Medicaid Expansions

This article examines how the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions affected the sources of health insurance coverage of undergraduate students in the United States. We show that the Affordable Care Act expansions increased the Medicaid coverage of undergraduate students by 5 to 7 percentage points more in expansion states than in nonexpansion states, resulting in 17% of undergraduate students in expansion states being covered by Medicaid postexpansion (up from 9% prior to the expansion). In contrast, the growth in employer and private direct coverage was 1 to 2 percentage points lower postexpansion for students in expansion states compared with nonexpansion states. Our findings demonstrate that policy efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility have been successful in increasing the Medicaid coverage rates for undergraduate students in the United States, but there is evidence of some crowd out after the expansions—that is, some students substituted their private and employer-sponsored coverage for Medicaid.

scholarly journals Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States

ILR Review ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Buchmueller ◽  
John Dinardo ◽  
Robert G. Valletta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Private Sector Union

During the past two decades, union density has declined in the United States and employer provision of health benefits has changed substantially in extent and form. Using individual survey data spanning the years 1983–97 combined with employer survey data for 1993, the authors update and extend previous analyses of private-sector union effects on employer-provided health benefits. They find that the union effect on health insurance coverage rates has fallen somewhat but remains large, due to an increase over time in the union effect on employee “take-up” of offered insurance, and that declining unionization explains 20–35% of the decline in employee health coverage. The increasing union take-up effect is linked to union effects on employees' direct costs for health insurance and the availability of retiree coverage.

scholarly journals Cancer History, Health Insurance Coverage, and Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence and Medication Cost-Coping Strategies in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 762-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingxuan Zhao ◽  
Zhiyuan Zheng ◽  
Xuesong Han ◽  
Amy J. Davidoff ◽  
Matthew P. Banegas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medication Cost ◽  
Medication Nonadherence ◽  
Cancer History

scholarly journals Erratum to “Place as a predictor of health insurance coverage: A multivariate analysis of counties in the United States” [Health Place 34 (2015) 207–214]

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Lisa Cacari Stone ◽  
Blake Boursaw ◽  
Sonia P. Bettez ◽  
Tennille Larzelere Marley ◽  
Howard Waitzkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States
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