The percentage of non-Hispanic Whites without health insurance has fallen slightly since the early 1980's, and the rate for other racial groups has remained stable. Meanwhile, the uninsured rate among Hispanics has increased dramatically. In this paper, we estimate how differences between the two groups in citizenship, education, public coverage eligibility, income, and labor market participati...

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We use the increases in health insurance coverage at age 65 generated by the rules of the Medicare program to evaluate the effects of health insurance coverage on health related behaviors and outcomes. The rise in overall coverage at age 65 is accompanied by a narrowing of disparities across race and education groups. Groups with bigger increases in coverage at 65 experience bigger reductions i...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether chronically ill patients have gaps in knowledge about their prescription drug coverage and establish the relationship between gaps and medication cost problems. DESIGN Nationwide, cross-sectional survey. SETTING Nationwide survey conducted via the Internet. PARTICIPANTS Three thousand one hundred nineteen adults aged 50 and older (1,400 of whom were aged > ...

INTRODUCTION Shingles (herpes zoster) causes substantial morbidity, especially among older adults. The shingles vaccine has been recommended for people aged ≥60 years since 2006. This study assessed recent shingles vaccination at national and state levels among adults aged ≥60 years. METHODS The 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data were analyzed in 2015 to assess shingles vacc...

We examine whether the decline in the availability of employer-provided health insurance is a phenomenon common to all jobs or is concentrated only on certain jobs. We find that declines in own-employer insurance coverage over the 1988-1997 period are driven primarily by declines in take-up for long-term full-time workers and declines in eligibility for new and part-time workers. We also look a...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have shown high potential to extend the coverage of high bandwidth infrastructure networks. We propose a deployment of a WMN for the needs of higher education institutes. In order to provide extended coverage to campus networks, several open issues such as authentication and authorisation of connected nodes, accounting of network usage and auditing of the network, ...

In this article, we use the Survey of Income and Program Participation to identify patterns of non-Medicare insurance coverage among disabled Medicare enrollees. Compared with the aged, the disabled are less likely to have private insurance coverage and more likely to have Medicaid. Probit analysis of the determinants of private insurance for disabled Medicare enrollees shows that income, educa...