How uninsured adults access health care
Uninsured adults don’t use emergency rooms more than insured adults. But they use other forms of health care much less, new research finds. Another study considers a strategy to change this.
Uninsured adults don’t use emergency rooms more than insured adults. But they use other forms of health care much less, new research finds. Another study considers a strategy to change this.
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The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) currently provides low-cost insurance coverage to 9 million children. In September 2017, Congress failed to pass legislation reauthorizing the program, which now faces an uncertain future. We’ve collected the latest scholarship on the program to highlight the stakes in this legislative battle.
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This compilation of the latest research on women’s sexual health will help journalists understand changes to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Studies highlight how contraceptive use and cost has changed in recent years, changes in insurance coverage and outcomes related to contraceptive use.
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By mandating that health insurance plans cover dependents until age 26, Obamacare may have saved a dramatic number of young Americans’ lives.
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After the Affordable Care Act made some cancer screenings routine, doctors began finding colorectal cancers earlier, when they are easier to treat.
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2016 study in Health Affairs that looks at the effectiveness of Medicaid programs in getting enrollees, who are twice as likely to smoke as the general population, to stop using tobacco.
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2016 highlights from the spring semester speaker series at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
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A 2016 recorded talk by Sarah Kliff, deputy managing editor for visuals at Vox, about media coverage of the Affordable Care Act and what’s next for health care policy.
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2011 analysis by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College on the Commonwealth’s insurance-requirement law.
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2009 study by the Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance on the relationship between health insurance and death rates.
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