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January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
The Affordable Care Act enables young adults to remain as dependents on their parents’ health insurance until age 26, and recent evidence suggests that as many as three million young adults have gained coverage as a result.
February 1, 2012 | Report
This report analyzes coverage trends among children, parents and adults without dependent children as a guide to changes in coverage that could be expected in the coming years without ACA.
April 20, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefit design has similar effects on health care use for low- and high-risk patients.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Veterans Health Administration (VA) is a test case for the effect of appointment wait times on the use of health services and health outcomes.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
U.S. Latinos of Mexican ancestry are less likely to have health insurance than are non-Mexican Latinos. Insured Mexican Americans are more likely to be married, to have been born in the U.S. and speak English. They are also more likely to have finished high school, to be older than 35 years of age, and to have income above the federal poverty line.
August 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Screening rates for cervical cancer vary between more developed and less developed countries.
May 6, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examines two factors that might account for slower health spending: job loss and benefit changes that shifted more costs to insured people.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
There is little question that the ACA will improve the nongroup and small group insurance markets for everyone in them, including the high-risk population. Yet insurance market reforms, guided by requirements for EHBs, AVs, and other tools provided by the ACA, are and will remain a work in progress.
January 24, 2013 | Story
Ruth Murphey Parker's research has focused predominantly in two areas: medical education and health services for under-served populations.
October 1, 2011 | Report
A new issue brief says the ACA will not displace employer-sponsored insurance (ESI).