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How Will the Uninsured Be Affected by Health Reform?
Briefs look at the number of uninsured who could be covered under a reformed health care system.
Published: August 27, 2009
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Americans are truly unable to access affordable health insurance, and how they might fare under health reform scenarios. In a four-part series released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, authors Lisa Dubay and Allison Cook calculate how many uninsured people could gain coverage through a health reform scenario that draws on proposals being discussed on Capitol Hill.
The analysis examines a health reform scenario that would expand Medicaid to individualswith incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line (FPL), provide subsidies for individuals with incomes between 133 and 399 percent of the FPL, and require individuals to obtain coverage through an individual mandate.
The four groups the authors cover are:
- the non-elderly uninsured ;
- uninsured parents, who compose a quarter of the uninsured;
- childless adults who make up 57 percent of uninsured Americans; and
- uninsured children.
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Urban Institute Real Time Policy Analysis
Publication date:
September 20, 2007
Summary:
The Urban Institute has issued several reports on key issues related to health insurance coverage in the United States. These issue briefs are designed to educate policy-makers considering reforms at the federal level to respond to the dynamic policy-making...
