Migrant Social Networks and Health Care: Exploring the Relationship between Women's Social Networks and Migrant Health Care Access in the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hollie Hendrikson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Care Access ◽  
The Relationship

State-Level Sexism and Women’s Health Care Access in the United States: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, 2014–2019

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e10
Author(s):  
Kristen Schorpp Rapp ◽  
Vanessa V. Volpe ◽  
Hannah Neukrug
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Hispanic Women ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barriers To Health Care ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Barriers To Health

Objectives. To quantify racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between state-level sexism and barriers to health care access among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic women in the United States. Methods. We merged a multidimensional state-level sexism index compiled from administrative data with the national Consumer Survey of Health Care Access (2014–2019; n = 10 898) to test associations between exposure to state-level sexism and barriers to access, availability, and affordability of health care. Results. Greater exposure to state-level sexism was associated with more barriers to health care access among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic women, but not non-Hispanic White women. Affordability barriers (cost of medical bills, health insurance, prescriptions, and tests) appeared to drive these associations. More frequent need for care exacerbated the relationship between state-level sexism and barriers to care for Hispanic women. Conclusions. The relationship between state-level sexism and women’s barriers to health care access differs by race/ethnicity and frequency of needing care. Public Health Implications. State-level policies may be used strategically to promote health care equity at the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print September 2, 2021: e1–e10. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306455 )

The Role of State Regulation in Consumer-Driven Health Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Jost ◽  
Mark A. Hall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Drug Benefit ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Prescription Drug Benefit ◽  
Tax Subsidy ◽  
Care Access

In December of 2003 the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) added section 223 to the Internal Revenue Code, creating a federal tax subsidy for money contributed to (and earnings accumulated on) health savings accounts, or HSAs. Though public attention was largely focused at that time on the provisions of the MMA creating the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, the MMA was also a major victory for advocates of “consumer-driven health care” who believe that HSAs have the potential to control the cost and improve the quality of health care in the United States, and perhaps even to increase health care access.Consumer-driven health care advocates believe that the key reason health care costs are out of control in the United States is that most Americans are too generously insured. They believe the solution is to increase consumer sensitivity to cost and effectiveness by making people spend their own money for health care.

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