Medicaid coverage for the working uninsured: the role of state policy.
Low-income workers face the highest gap in health coverage; 37.3 percent were uninsured in 1999. Although employer-sponsored insurance covered many more low-income workers, state programs are very important to those without private insurance. We examined the wide variations across thirteen representative states in public insurance coverage of low-income workers to develop insights into the reasons for the variations and to suggest strategies for encouraging states to expand public insurance coverage. The analysis suggests that expanded and better-targeted federal assistance coupled with greater state flexibility would be needed to achieve this goal.
Bovbjerg
Randall R
RR
Urban Instituteś Health Policy Center, USA.
Hadley
Jack
J
Pohl
Mary Beth
MB
Rockmore
Marc
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D000328:Adult; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D004651:Employment; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States