Insurance Coverage & Costs

HSC analyses focus on private and public insurance coverage, the uninsured and the cost of health care. HSC research provides insight into a range of topics, including how health care costs are changing, why the nation's number of uninsured continues to rise and how employer-sponsored coverage is changing.

Title	Date	Document Info
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise and PerformanceJames C. Robinson, Paul B. Ginsburg	Jan. 27, 2009	Journal Article Health Affairs
Consumers Face Higher Costs As Health Plans Seek to Control Drug SpendingGlen P. Mays, Robert E. Hurley, Joy M. Grossman	November 2001	Issue Brief No. 45
Containing Health Care Costs: Market Forces and RegulationPaul B. Ginsburg	June 30, 2011	Testimony
Contrary to Cost-Shift Theory, Lower Medicare Hospital Payment Rates for Inpatient Care Lead to Lower Private Payment RatesChapin White	May 2013	Journal Article Health Affairs
Controlling Health Care CostsPaul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 14, 2004	Commentary
Declining Employer-Sponsored CoveragePeter J. Cunningham	March 2002	Journal Article Medical Care Research and Review
Defined Contributions: The Search for a New VisionSally Trude	April 2001	Issue Brief No. 37
Defining "Defined Contributions":	October 10, 2000	Conference Transcript
Despite Fears, Costs Rise Only Modestly in 1998	Fall 1998	Data Bulletin No. 13
Despite Rapid Growth, Retail Clinic Use Remains ModestHa T. Tu, Ellyn R. Boukus	November 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 29
Do Consumers Know How Their Health Plan Works?Peter J. Cunningham, Charles Denk, Michael Sinclair	March/April 2001	Health Affairs
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians?Peter J. Cunningham, Ann S. O'Malley	Nov. 18, 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs
Don't Break Out the Champagne: Continued Slowing of Health Care Spending Growth Unlikely to LastPaul B. Ginsburg	January/February 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs
Efficiency and Quality: The Role of Controlling Health Care Cost Growth in Health Care ReformPaul B. Ginsburg	June 3, 2009	Commentary
Employer Health Insurance Premium Subsidies Unlikely to Enhance Coverage SignificantlyJames D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley	December 2001	Issue Brief No. 46
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance:Sally Trude, Jon B. Christianson, Cara S. Lesser, Carolyn A. Watts, Andrea Staiti	January/February 2002	Health Affairs
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Down but Not OutJon B. Christianson, Ha T. Tu, Divya R. Samuel	October 2011	Issue Brief No. 137
Employer-Sponsored Insurance and Health Reform: Doing the MathJean M. Abraham, Peter Graven, Roger Feldman	December 2012	NIHCR Research Brief No. 11
Employers' Views on Incremental Measures to Expand Health CoverageHeidi H. Whitmore, Sara R. Collins, Jon R. Gabel, Jeremy D. Pickreign	November/December 2006	Journal Article Health Affairs
Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Univeral CoveragePaul B. Ginsburg	May/June 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs