Rural uninsured and rural underinsured resources related to rural health and human services, with information provided by the Rural Assistance Center Copyright 2010 Rural Assistance Center http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/insurance/uninsured.php A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation documents how the two recessions Americans have weathered in the first decade of the 21st century have taken a tremendous toll on peoples ability to afford health insuranceand employers capacity to offer it, its Americas middle class that has been hardest hit. http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/product.jsp?id=58049 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:33:38 CST http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/product.jsp?id=58049 Kaiser Health News article tells of the "three-share" program, a modest attempt financially strapped states and communities are pursuing to help the uninsured. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/March/16/Novel-health-plans-try-to-help-uninsured.aspx Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:10:54 CST http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/March/16/Novel-health-plans-try-to-help-uninsured.aspx Associated Press article via WCAX News, (VT) discusses how it took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill, but if it finally passes Congress, it will take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies. http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=12140775 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:27:36 CST http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=12140775 Without significant reform to the current health care system, the number of uninsured Americans could grow by 10 million people in just five years, and spending on government health care programs for the poor could more than double by 2020, according to a new report released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/product.jsp?id=57468 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:12:36 CST http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/product.jsp?id=57468 Kaiser Health News reports that President Obama is delivering his "closing argument" for health care reform in St. Louis today as Democratic leaders strategize on moving the bill through the House and Senate. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/March/10/health-Reform-Big-Picture.aspx Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:23:33 CST http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/March/10/health-Reform-Big-Picture.aspx In a letter to the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corporation and CIGNA HealthCare Inc., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on the executives to publicly justify proposed health insurance premium increases. Sebelius letter comes after a meeting last week with these executives at the White House. http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=13241 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:31:47 CST http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=13241 According to a recently released Center for Rural Affairs' report, approximately one in three rural Americans living in communities with fewer than 2,500 residents will be uninsured by 2019. http://www.cfra.org/newsrelease/2010/03/02/one-three-small-town-residents-without-health-coverage-2019 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:39:25 CST http://www.cfra.org/newsrelease/2010/03/02/one-three-small-town-residents-without-health-coverage-2019 Kaiser Health News reports that the House passed legislation Wednesday (406-19) to strip health insurers of their federal antitrust exemption. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/February/25/Antitrust-Vote.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailyreport+%28Kaiser+Health+News+-+Daily+Health+Policy+Report%29 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:09:08 CST http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/February/25/Antitrust-Vote.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailyreport+%28Kaiser+Health+News+-+Daily+Health+Policy+Report%29 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today unveiled a new report that highlights health insurance premium increases in states across the country and comes shortly after Anthem Blue Cross announced plans to raise rates on its California customers by as much as 39 percent, even after its parent company took in a profit of $2.7 billion in the previous quarter. http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=13122 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:13:43 CST http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=13122 Medicare Update article reports that in a recent post, The White House Blog includes a letter from Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius outlining the agenda for the upcoming February 25, 2010 health care summit. http://medicareupdate.typepad.com/medicare_update/2010/02/whitehousehealthcaresummit.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:54:04 CST http://medicareupdate.typepad.com/medicare_update/2010/02/whitehousehealthcaresummit.html An analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Coverage Act (as amended on December 19, 2009 by the Senate Majority Leaders Managers Amendment) using statistics and data to identify how it would reduce the number of uninsured in non-metropolitan areas. -- RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis http://www.rupri.org/Forms/McBride_Insurance_Amended_Dec09.pdf Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:07:39 CST http://www.rupri.org/Forms/McBride_Insurance_Amended_Dec09.pdf Reviews the full range of individual state activity on health reform during 2008 and provides facts about the number and percent of uninsured Americans. -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation http://www.academyhealth.org/files/publications/SCI_SoS09.pdf Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:30:39 CST http://www.academyhealth.org/files/publications/SCI_SoS09.pdf Demonstrates that uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance. Details the results of a Harvard University study. -- American Medical Association http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/144/11/1006?home Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:50:44 CST http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/144/11/1006?home Provides publications, information, resources, and referrals about health care services for medically underserved individuals and populations. -- Health Resources and Services Administration http://ask.hrsa.gov/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:53:37 CST http://ask.hrsa.gov/ Describes the characteristics of the uninsured population, the difference health insurance makes, and why there is a large uninsured population. -- Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/1420-11-2.pdf Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:33:52 CST http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/1420-11-2.pdf Comprised of eight sites across the country, and launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this is a group of national, community-based demonstration projects which seek to develop programs to improve people's accessibility to quality health care. Includes work in the areas of health insurance, workforce development, plus children's, men's, women's, prison, oral, mental, and general health. http://www.communityvoices.org Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:53:11 CST http://www.communityvoices.org Provides the latest income, poverty, and health insurance data from the Current Population Survey. -- U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:22:42 CST http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf A North Carolina 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides financial assistance, resources, and support to underinsured/uninsured people diagnosed with breast cancer who reside in North Carolina. http://www.prettyinpinkfoundation.org/index.aspx Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:05 CST http://www.prettyinpinkfoundation.org/index.aspx Focuses on health insurance coverage among those with middle incomes its availability,affordability, and stability. -- Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7951.pdf Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:36:01 CST http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7951.pdf Examines arguments for a public health insurance plan, how the public health insurance plan would address the health care challenges that exist for rural areas, and how the choice of a public health insurance plan option is important to the viability of rural America. -- Center for Rural Affairs http://www.cfra.org/newsrelease/2009/07/23/why-rural-america-needs-public-health-insurance-plan Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:22:47 CST http://www.cfra.org/newsrelease/2009/07/23/why-rural-america-needs-public-health-insurance-plan Presents the results of state and county analysis of unemployment rates nationally in urban and rural (non-metropolitan) areas over the period 2007-February 2009 and discusses the impact of rising unemployment on uninsurance in rural areas and their combined impact on the need for health care reform. -- RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis http://www.unmc.edu/ruprihealth/Pubs/b2009-6%20Rising%20Unemployment%20Leading%20to%20More%20Uninsured.pdf Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:44:15 CST http://www.unmc.edu/ruprihealth/Pubs/b2009-6%20Rising%20Unemployment%20Leading%20to%20More%20Uninsured.pdf Uses a health insurance model to compare the effects of a building blocks approach on health insurance coverage and health spending, focusing on the geographic differences (by metropolitan and non-metropolitan) of this approach. -- RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis http://www.unmc.edu/ruprihealth/Pubs/b2009-5%20Building%20Blocks%20Approach%20to%20Covering%20the%20Uninsured.pdf Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:41:14 CST http://www.unmc.edu/ruprihealth/Pubs/b2009-5%20Building%20Blocks%20Approach%20to%20Covering%20the%20Uninsured.pdf Provides information on the health insurancestatus of rural Americans under the age of 65. Includes recent estimates and changes since 1997 in rural health insurance coverage; differences in the demographic, socio-economic, employment and other risk factors for uninsurance among rural and urban residents; demographic and economic characteristics and employment differences of the rural and urban uninsured; and policy implications for covering the rural uninsured. -- Maine Rural Health Research Center http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/Publications/rural/Rural-Health-Insurance-Chartbook-2009.pdf Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:19:50 CST http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/Publications/rural/Rural-Health-Insurance-Chartbook-2009.pdf Focuses on the low-income adult population, a group of over 50 million who are athigh risk of losing their health insurance coverage or are already uninsured. -- Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7914.pdf Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:14:34 CST http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7914.pdf Suggests that rural workers can benefit if states adjust their unemployment insurance plans to include part-time employees because, on average, there is a higher number of part-time employees in rural areas. -- Carsey Institute http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/IB-UI-09.pdf Tue, 26 May 2009 12:44:12 CST http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/IB-UI-09.pdf Examines the barriers to securing affordable coverage in the current marketplace for uninsured people ages 55 to 65, as well as the potential for a Medicare buy-in to improve the groups health insurance coverage rate. -- Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7904.pdf Mon, 18 May 2009 14:45:12 CST http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7904.pdf Details health insurance coverage in rural America. Includes how rural citizens get insurance coverage and how it differs from urban America, reviews research that explores obstacles in attaining health insurance, addresses the problem of underinsurance, and explores the impact of inadequate financing for health care and its effects on the community. Concludes that health care reform must address the employer-sponsored health insurance system. -- Center for Rural Affairs http://files.cfra.org/pdf/Causes-and-Consequences-of-Rural-Uninsured.pdf Tue, 05 May 2009 13:02:42 CST http://files.cfra.org/pdf/Causes-and-Consequences-of-Rural-Uninsured.pdf Offers a closer look at the number of Americans without health insurance and discusses the major underlying reasons for the growth in the number of uninsured. -- Families USA http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/americans-at-risk.pdf Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:04:42 CST http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/americans-at-risk.pdf Assesses how uninsured rates and sources of coverage have changed since the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was enacted. Compares the health insurance coverage of rural and urban residents in 1997 and 2005. Discusses implications for health insurance reform -- Maine Rural Health Research Center http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/Publications/rural/pb/Rural-Public-Health-Insurance.pdf Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:20:22 CST http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/Publications/rural/pb/Rural-Public-Health-Insurance.pdf Identifies how health care costs and medical debt affects family economic security. -- Families USA http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/the-hidden-link.pdf Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:37:11 CST http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/the-hidden-link.pdf