The percentage of Americans under age 65 with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage has dropped to 59.5 percent in 2011, continuing a decade-long decline, finds a new study. The analysis, led by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reports that the share of people with employer-based [...]
In the first empirical study of the role supplemental insurance coverage might play in Medicare spending growth, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School found that employer-sponsored and self-purchased supplemental coverage were associated with annual spending growth rates of 7.17 percent and 7.18 percent, respectively, compared to 6.08 [...]
“I loved walking across the Mississippi from the Law School to the School of Public Health and taking on a whole new set of challenges,” says Elizabeth Karan (aka Issie) of her years in graduate school earning an MPH in Public Health Administration and Policy and a JD through the University’s Joint Degree Program in [...]
The scramble is on to prepare for January 1, 2014—the day that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes fully into effect. Many of its benefits have been realized already in the three years since President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010, but states are still making decisions whether [...]
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the mandate that all individuals must have health insurance coverage. But the court ruled that the ACA Medicaid expansion was optional and that governors and state leaders could choose whether or not to increase their [...]
There are nearly 6 million businesses in the United States with 50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) definition of a “small” business. This group represents most firms in the United States and employs nearly 34 million workers. In 2012, 98 percent of firms with 200+ workers provided [...]
Next fall, most Americans and many small business people will sit at their computers searching for the right health care insurance policy. If all goes well, they should be getting more choices in an easy-to-understand format called a health insurance exchange. “We are planning for [health insurance selection] to be a process that takes [...]
New research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health has found lower cesarean birth rates among Medicaid beneficiaries with access to support from a birth doula than among Medicaid patients nationally. A doula is not a medical provider, but rather a trained professional who provides information, physical assistance, and support to a woman [...]
Despite evidence demonstrating that the environment around us can drive the obesity trend – our schools, workplaces, communities, the food and beverage industry and even the media – most Americans believe that the solution to the obesity epidemic continues to rest with obese individuals themselves.
The Food Policy Research Center (FPRC), comprised of five schools and colleges at the University of Minnesota, has released a fact sheet on genetically engineered (GE) and genetically modified (GM) foods. Designed to inform policymakers through a comprehensive scientific approach, this fact sheet is the first in a series of food policy topics. Led by [...]
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