Research Findings on the Economy and Health Insurance Coverage: Summaries of Studies by the Urban Institute and The Center for Studying Health System Change

Publication Date: April 2004

Publisher: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

New studies by researchers at the Urban Institute and the Center for Studying Health System Change focus on the causes of the recent decline in employer-sponsored health insurance. Contributing factors include: reductions in employment, shifts from full-time to part-time work, and declines in the take-up of employer-sponsored insurance when offered. Uninsurance rates would have risen much more than they did if public programs - primarily Medicaid and SCHIP - had not taken up the slack.