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Feb 07 2018

The Uninsured and Emergency Room Use

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Research published in Health Affairs examines patterns of care use by the uninsured population.

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Mar 25 2013

CMS Research on the Uninsured

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Supposedly the reform act will be fully implemented next January and millions of Americans will be getting health insurance for the first time. A brief from CMS discusses who the…

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Sep 25 2012

HealthAffairs

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The number of uninsured Americans declined by about 3 percent, or 1.34 million, to 48.6 million in 2011. The search for policy fingerprints on these findings points directly to Medicaid.

Sep 21 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Insurance Coverage Improves In 20 States, Census Shows

Sep 21 2012

New York Times

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Nearly six million Americans, most of them middle-income workers, will face a tax penalty under President Obama’s health overhaul for not getting insurance, Congressional analysts said Wednesday.

Sep 19 2012

Bloomberg

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CBO Says 6 Million in U.S. to Face Penalty for Lacking Insurance

Sep 10 2012

Kaiser Health News

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After the monthly jobs report on Friday, the next big federal report with implications for the presidential race comes Wednesday morning when the Census Bureau releases its annual study on the number of people without health insurance.

Jun 20 2012

Washington Post

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U.S. health officials say the number of young adults with medical coverage grew by more than 3 million since the new health care overhaul took effect.

Jun 06 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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One of hospitals’ most vexing problems is absorbing the cost of care from the uninsured. For years, these patients have been called self-pay, but that term is a misnomer.

May 21 2012

Wall Street Journal

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If the Supreme Court strikes down the law as unconstitutional, according to Kaiser, the roughly 16 million low-income adults that the Medicaid expansion would help would likely remain uninsured.

May 18 2012

Washington Post

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Nearly 62,000 ‘uninsurable’ patients could lose coverage if the health care law is overturned

Apr 19 2012

Wall Street Journal

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A quarter of working-age adults had a gap in their health-insurance coverage last year, mainly because they lost or changed their jobs, a new think-tank study says.

Jan 31 2012

Kaiser Health News

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The 2010 health-care overhaul creates state-based health plans for those who have medical conditions that make them uninsurable in the private market. As of November, about 45,000 people had signed up for those plans, far fewer than the up to 400,000 that was originally projected – why?

Nov 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Uninsured patients spend less time in the hospital than insured patients, according to a study that suggests that ability to pay plays a greater role than medical need when determining length of stay.

Nov 16 2011

Reuters

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Uninsured Americans tend to be discharged from the hospital somewhat sooner than those with health coverage, regardless of the medical condition itself, a new study finds.

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