Students may extend their Graduate UC Student Health Insurance Plan for up to two quarters if on an approved leave of absence. You must have been covered by UC SHIP in the term immediately preceding the term for which you want to purchase coverage or, if you waived enrollment in the prior coverage period, show proof of loss of the plan used to waive. Proof of loss means an official letter of te...

.IT THE ENI> OF 1968, private health insurance organizations gave some protection against hospital costs to an estimated 152 million persons in the ITnited States, or 77 percent, of the civilian population. Some protect,ion against surgical costs was given to 74 percent, of t,lie population and some coverage of in-hospital physician visits to 6.5 percent of the population. For services or t,ype...

This paper examines the role of price in health insurance coverage decisions within the family to guide policy in promoting whole family coverage. We analyze the factors that affect individual health insurance coverage among families, and explore family decisions about whom to cover and whom to leave uninsured. The analysis uses household data from California combined with abstracted individual...

The research question we address is whether state laws that require health insurance policies to provide coverage for specified benefits have affected the size of the population without any private sector health insurance coverage. The laws are often alleged to increase the cost of insurance premiums and thus reduce incentives for smaller employers to offer and for individuals to purchase healt...