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Who Has Insurance and Who Does Not in the District of Columbia? (Policy Briefs/Health Policy Briefs)Author(s): Allison Cook,
Barbara A. OrmondDC fares better than the nation as a whole in the share of its population that is uninsured. Lower rates of employer-sponsored coverage are more than offset by higher rates of public coverage. The District's relatively generous Medicaid eligibility standards, and the DC HealthCare Alliance, a locally funded coverage program, contribute to the high share of publicly insured residents. Although all low-income individuals are eligible for either Medicaid or the Alliance, some 66,000 residents remain uninsured. These are among the findings of this data brief on insurance status in DC by age, employment, income, family status, and health status.
| Posted: December 14, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
The Experiences of SCHIP Enrollees and Disenrollees in 10 States: Findings from the Congressionally Mandated SCHIP Evaluation (Research Report)Author(s): Genevieve M. Kenney,
Christopher Trenholm,
Lisa Dubay,
Myoung Kim,
Lorenzo Moreno,
Jamie Rubenstein,
Anna S. Sommers,
Stephen Zuckerman,
William Black,
Fredric Blavin,
Grace KoCongress mandated in the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (BBRA) that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conduct an independent comprehensive study of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This report presents the findings from the mandated surveys of SCHIP enrollees and disenrollees in 10 states (conducted during 2002). SCHIP programs were found to provide health coverage to the population SCHIP was intended to serve, primarily children who would otherwise have been uninsured. The programs availed enrollees of needed primary and other health care services, and were found to have a positive impact on enrollees' access to health care services, leaving enrollees with fewer unmet needs than they would have had in the absence of SCHIP. Families were satisfied with the ease of enrolling children, many of whom remained enrolled for 12 months, depending on the state.
| Posted: December 05, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Housing in the Nation's Capital 2007 (Research Report)Author(s): Margery Austin Turner,
G. Thomas Kingsley,
Kathryn L.S. Pettit,
Mary Kopczynski Winkler,
Barika X. WilliamsThis is the sixth in a series of annual reports about housing in the Washington metropolitan region. It assembles and analyzes the most current data on housing conditions and trends in the District of Columbia and the surrounding suburbs. Last year's report focused on linkages between housing and schools in the District of Columbia and the metropolitan region.
This year's report takes a regional perspective, examining how the region addresses housing for special needs populations. More specifically, the report assesses the housing options and services available to the elderly, disabled, and homeless and explores the consequences and opportunities for housing policy across the region.
| Posted: November 29, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
High Prices and Demographic Shifts Will Test Metro D.C.'s Ability to House Residents with Special Needs (Press Release)Author(s): The Urban InstituteDespite the recent housing market slowdown, home prices and rents remain out of reach for many Washington-area residents, especially those with physical and mental disabilities, elderly people who can no longer live independently, and the homeless, a new study by the Urban Institute concludes.
| Posted: November 29, 2007 | Availability: HTML |
Can California's Proposed Coverage Reform Be a Model for the District of Columbia? (Policy Briefs/Health Policy Briefs)Author(s): Stephen Zuckerman,
Barbara A. OrmondThe ongoing debate in California over two competing 2007 proposals for universal health coverage highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the current insurance system in the District of Columbia as a platform for coverage expansion. The District's advantages include its relatively small uninsured population and existing mechanisms for administering a public coverage program tied to income. But its fiscal base is relatively small compared with California's, its largely unregulated insurance market could lead to severe adverse selection problems for new programs, and it is at much greater risk for border-crossing by both individuals and businesses in response to reform.
| Posted: November 29, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
