D. Health Insurance Coverage

 VI. Key Issues: Financing and Delivery >> D.  Health Insurance Coverage (last updated July 19, 2014)

Topic Outline

• Determinants of coverage

  • Demographic factors
  • Socioeconomic factors
  • Health status

• Private health insurance

  • Group coverage

    • ERISA plans

    • Medium-size groups

    • Small group market

  • Non-group coverage

  • Long-term-care insurance

• Public Health Insurance

  • Public Health Plans

    • Medicare
    • Medicaid
    • SCHIP

  • Public Employee Plans

    • Federal Employees

    • Military Health

    • VA Health

    • State/Local Employees

    • Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

• Uninsured

• Underinsured

Analysis

• Insurance Market (Health Affairs topic page)
• Insurance Coverage (Health Affairs topic page)
• Health Insurance Web Links (Policy.com)
• Health Insurance Profile: Race/Ethnicity and Sex-1996
• Health Insurance Coverage 1996 (from March 1997 Current Population Survey: U.S. Census Bureau). Information on number and characteristics of uninsured.
• Trends in Insurance Coverage (Green Book 1996)
• Children’s Health Insurance (Bureau of the Census)
  Site includes a) facts about children’s health insurance; b) information on coverage status of children and type of coverage for 1995 (based on March 1996 CPS); and c) coverage over a 28-month period, 1992-1994 (based on SIPP).
• Council of State Governments, Knowledge Center.  Insurance Coverage and Managed Care.

News

• Kaiser Health News. Insurance.