This article examines health insurance coverage among a group of newly entitled disability insurance beneficiaries. Although only 50 percent of the beneficiaries had been entitled to disability benefits long enough to be eligible for Medicare coverage, a full 86 percent of them had some type of health coverage. Excluding coverage by Medicare, nearly 75 percent of the sample had coverage under o...

Previous research has demonstrated that Latino young adults are uninsured at higher rates relative to other ethnoracial groups. Recent implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased access to health insurance for young adults, in part by maintaining health coverage through their parents until age 26. This paper examines patterns of Latino young adults' insurance coverage dur...

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the proportion of non-elderly Americans with employment-based health insurance declined. Roughly 80% of this decline was due to the loss of coverage by dependent family members. During this period, workers became increasingly responsible for the costs of family coverage, while expanded Medicaid coverage provided low-income working families with an alternativ...

background: who suggest that family physician is the core in the world efforts for quality improvement, cost ef­fectiveness, and equity in the health care systems. this study evaluates the impact of the program on accessibility of the services, case finding, patient referral, feedback process and insurance coverage in the rural health units. methods: this study was quasi experimental. it compar...

OBJECTIVE To examine the levels, inequalities and factors associated with health insurance coverage in Kenya. METHODS We analysed secondary data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) conducted in 2009 and 2014. We examined the level of health insurance coverage overall, and by type, using an asset index to categorise households into five socio-economic quintiles with quintile 5 ...

We use the April 1993 Current Population Survey to examine the health insurance coverage decisions of the unemployed and to simulate the potential effects of the new Kassebaum-Kennedy legislation. After controlling for demographic characteristics, COBRA eligibility raises the probability of health insurance coverage by 0.095, while eligibility for spouse employer insurance increases the likelih...

In Chile, workers are mandated to choose either public or private health insurance coverage. Although private insurance premiums depend on health risk, public insurance premiums are solely linked to income. This structure implies that individuals with higher health risks may tend to avoid private insurance, leaving the public insurance system responsible for their care. This article attempts to...