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
Massachusetts Health Reform: Employers, Lower-Wage Workers and Universal CoverageLaurie E. Felland, Debra A. Draper, Allison Liebhaber	July 2007	Issue Brief No. 113
Massachusetts Health Reform: High Costs and Expanding Expectations May Weaken Employer SupportDebra A. Draper, Laurie E. Felland, Allison Liebhaber, Johanna Lauer	October 2008	Issue Brief No. 124
Medicaid Eligibility Policy and the Crowding-Out Effect:	October 1996	Issue Brief No. 03
Medical Bill Problems Steady for U.S. Families, 2007-2010Anna Sommers, Peter J. Cunningham	December 2011	Tracking Report No. 28
Medicare Seniors Much Less Willing to Limit Physician-Hospital Choice for Lower CostsHa T. Tu	June 2005	Issue Brief No. 96
Mixed Signals: Trends in Americans' Access to Medical Care, 2007-2010Ellyn R. Boukus, Peter J. Cunningham	August 2011	Tracking Report No. 25
More Americans Willing to Limit Physician-Hospital Choice for Lower Medical CostsHa T. Tu	March 2005	Issue Brief No. 94
More Nonelderly Americans Face Problems Affording Prescription DrugsLaurie E. Felland, James D. Reschovsky	January 2009	Tracking Report No. 22
More Small Firms Offer Health Insurance but Fewer Employees Enroll	Winter 1998	Data Bulletin No. 10
Next Steps in Incremental Health Insurance Expansions:Peter J. Cunningham	April 1998	Issue Brief No. 12
Options for Expanding Health Insurance for People with Chronic ConditionsHa T. Tu, Marie C. Reed	February 2002	Issue Brief No. 50
Patient Cost Sharing: How Much is Too Much?Sally Trude	December 2003	Issue Brief No. 72
Patient Cost Sharing: Promises and Pitfalls	Dec. 3, 2003	Conference Transcript
Patients, Profits and Health System Change:	May 1997	Issue Brief No. 09
Physician Acceptance of New Medicare Patients Stabilizes in 2004-05Peter J. Cunningham, Andrea Staiti, Paul B. Ginsburg	January 2006	Tracking Report No. 12
Physician Visits After Hospital Discharge: Implications for Reducing ReadmissionsAnna Sommers, Peter J. Cunningham, Deborah Alvarez	December 2011	NIHCR Research Brief No. 6
Policy Implications of Risk Selection in Medicare HMOs:Heidi H. Whitmore	November 1996	Issue Brief No. 04
Preferred Provider Organizations and Medicare: Is There an Advantage?Robert E. Hurley, Bradley C. Strunk, Joy M. Grossman	April 2004	Issue Brief No. 81
Premium Subsidies for Employer-Sponsored Health CoverageLeslie Jackson Conwell, Ashley C. Short	December 2001	Issue Brief No. 47
Promoting Healthy Competition in Health Insurance Exchanges: Options and Trade-offsChapin White	November 2011	NIHCR Policy Analysis No. 6