Challenges and Options for Increasing the Number of Americans with Health Insurance

This paper provides an overview of the issues confronting policymakers who want to develop programs to help working Americans obtain health insurance. It sets the stage for the following 10 articles, which detail a variety of proposals to offer subsidies and financial incentives to people so they wi...

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Published in:Inquiry (Chicago) 2001-07, Vol.38 (2), p.90-105
Main Author: Glied, Sherry A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conference Papers: Overview
Credit insurance
Employer provided health insurance
Employment
Financing, Government - legislation & jurisprudence
Financing, Government - organization & administration
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health Policy
Humans
Indigent care
Insurance coverage
Insurance Coverage - economics
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medical Assistance - legislation & jurisprudence
Medical Assistance - organization & administration
Medically Uninsured - statistics & numerical data
Medicare
Models, Organizational
Polls & surveys
Purchasing
Statistical data
Subsidies
Tax credits
Uninsured people
United States
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Summary:This paper provides an overview of the issues confronting policymakers who want to develop programs to help working Americans obtain health insurance. It sets the stage for the following 10 articles, which detail a variety of proposals to offer subsidies and financial incentives to people so they will purchase health coverage. This paper examines challenges to covering the uninsured, describes principles that should be used in assessing policy proposals aimed at this purpose, and evaluates the main strategies for coverage expansions. The evaluation of proposal categories also provides estimates of the costs and consequences of specific proposals described in the other papers.
ISSN:0046-9580
1945-7243
DOI:10.5034/inquiryjrnl_38.2.90