On March 4, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell. The case involves the availability of tax credits in federally-run, as opposed to state-run, health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If the Court eliminates the credits, premiums will rise and millions of Americans will be left uninsured. One study estimates that each year, 9,800 of them will die as a ...

SN SOME of its public statements in recent years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has stressed the objective of promoting market discipline of the risks assumed by banks through the influence of uninsured depositors.’ The FDIC has attempted to accomplish this by allowing the uninsured depositors of some failed banks to suffer losses. In practice, the cases in which uninsured de...

To conduct the literature review, OTA’s contractors searched several scientific literature databases for articles published since 1980 on the relationships among the sources of health insurance; the utilization, process, and quality of medical services; and outcomes of care (178). OTA focused the review on multivariate studies that statistically adjusted, or otherwise attempted to correct for, ...

Results: Crude analysis revealed a higher mortality for uninsured patients (odds ratio [OR], 1.39; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.36-1.42; P .001). Controlling for sex, race, age, Injury Severity Score, Revised Trauma Score, and injury mechanism (adjusted for clustering on hospital), uninsured patients had the highest mortality (OR, 1.80; 95% CI, 1.61-2.02; P .001). Subgroup analysis of young ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether Medicare enrollment at age 65 has an effect on the health trajectory of the near-elderly uninsured. DATA SOURCES Eight biennial waves (1992-2006) of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of noninstitutionalized 51-61 year olds and their spouses. STUDY DESIGN We use a quasi-experimental approach to compare the health effects ...

OBJECTIVES Medicaid and Uninsured populations are a significant focus of current healthcare reform. We hypothesized that outcomes following major surgical operations in the United States is dependent on primary payer status. METHODS From 2003 to 2007, 893,658 major surgical operations were evaluated using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database: lung resection, esophagectomy, colectomy...

Despite major efforts to expand public program eligibility to uninsured children, many low-income children remain unenrolled. Some have argued that we should not be as concerned about these eligible, uninsured children because they can and will be become enrolled with they get sick and present for a health care visit. This study addresses the question of whether uninsured low-income children do...

Introduction Illinois hospitals have experienced a marked decrease in the number of uninsured patients after implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). However, the full impact of health insurance expansion on trauma mortality is still unknown. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of ACA insurance expansion on trauma patients hospitalized in Illinois. Methods We perfo...

More than two-thirds of uninsured U.S. children are eligible for public coverage, and most current policy debate assumes that this is largely attributable to poor take-up. This paper explores the contribution of poor retention in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to this phenomenon. The results indicate that one-third of all uninsured children in 2006 had been e...

BACKGROUND Medicaid and uninsured populations are a significant focus of current healthcare reform. We hypothesized that outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in the United States is dependent on primary payer status. METHODS AND RESULTS From 2003 to 2007, 1,250,619 isolated CABG operations were evaluated using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database. Patients were stra...