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America's Children in Poverty: A New Look at Who's Poor Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure. The “Lifted Out”

Children who are officially poor but are not classified as poor under the SPM differ from the core poor in three primary ways; their families: 1) have substantially more cash and other income resources (i.e., they are much closer to the official poverty threshold), 2) are more likely to be receiving assistance from safety net programs, and 3) rece

America's Children in Poverty: A New Look at Who's Poor Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure. The “Core Poor”

Looking only at differences between all OPM and all SPM poor children tends to mask important differences between subgroups of children. In particular, poor children can be categorized into one of three mutually exclusive groups when one moves from examining child poverty under the official measure to looking at it under the supplemental measure.

America's Children in Poverty: A New Look at Who's Poor Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure. Acknowledgements

I would like to thank David Betson, Ajay Chaudry, Susan Hauan, David Johnson, Don Oellerich, Trudi Renwick, Kathy Short, Kendall Swenson and Jane Waldfogel for their helpful comments and assistance in preparing this Research Brief.

Strategies for Measuring the Quality of Psychotherapy: A White Paper to Inform Measure Development and Implementation

Various types of psychotherapy can benefit people who experience depression, anxiety, and other common mental disorders. However, the extent to which these psychotherapies are available and delivered effectively is largely unknown. In the context of health care reforms that encourage performance measurement, a strong set of measures focused on psy

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Health Insurance Marketplace: Summary Enrollment Report For the Initial Annual Open Enrollment Period. Appendix D: Characteristics of Persons WHO Have Selected Marketplace Plans Through the Ffm – by Health Insurance Coverage Status at the Time of Application

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collects data on health insurance coverage at the time of application only from individuals seeking financial assistance for coverage through the Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM). CMS is not currently collecting data on whether individuals who have selected Marketplace plans through the

Variation and Trends in Medigap Premiums. Analysis of Medigap Policies with Large Premium Increases

While overall Medigap premium increases have been moderate over the past ten years, some policies have had much larger than average increases. These increases may cause concern among enrollees and policy makers. To examine potential factors that may be associated with high premium growth, we examined plans that appeared to be “outliers” in ter

Variation and Trends in Medigap Premiums. Trends in Medigap Enrollment

In 2010, according to data filed by insurers with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 9.6 million Medicare beneficiaries (about 20 percent of all beneficiaries) purchased supplemental coverage through Medigap. 12 As displayed in Figure 2, the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medigap plans declined over the past de

The Affordable Care Act and Latinos. Preventive Health Services

Compared with other Americans, Latinos are less likely to receive preventive care and more likely to have chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. 12,13 The Affordable Care Act helps to make prevention affordable and accessible by requiring most health insurance plans to cover prevention and wellness benefits with no cost-sharin

The Affordable Care Act and African Americans. Preventive Health Services

Compared with other Americans, African Americans are less likely to receive preventive care and more likely to have chronic diseases such as diabetes and certain cancers. 12,13 Heart disease and stroke account for the largest proportion of disparities in life expectancy between African Americans and non-Latino Whites, despite the existence of p

Informal Caregiving for Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Study of Caregiving. References

Beach S, R Schulz, J Yee, S Jackson. 2000. "Negative and positive health effects of caring for a disabled spouse: Longitudinal findings from the Caregiver Health Effects Study." Psychol Aging 15: 259-71.

Informal Caregiving for Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Study of Caregiving. Summary and Implications

This report profiles the role and experiences of informal caregivers for the older population, using a new resource that provides a more complete picture of informal caregiving than possible with surveys that rely solely on either care-recipient-reported or caregiver-reported information. NSOC, a supplement to the 2011 NHATS, is unique in intervie

Informal Caregiving for Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Study of Caregiving. Balance of Positive and Negative Aspects of Caregiving

Table 5 provides an overview of individual items measuring caregiver perceptions of positive and negative aspects of caregiving, as well as difficulties arising from caregiving, for all caregivers (top panel) and for caregivers helping with self-care or mobility (lower panel). Scales constructed by summing individual items also are shown for posit

Informal Caregiving for Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Study of Caregiving. Types of Assistance and Hours of CARE

Table 3 provides detail on breadth of assistance informal caregivers provide, grouped into five domains: more traditionally examined self-care or mobility (ADLs) and household activities (IADLs), transportation, assistance with medical system interactions, and health or medical care activities, ordered from most to least common. A somewhat larger

Informal Caregiving for Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Study of Caregiving. Profile of Informal Caregivers and Hours of CARE Provided

In 2011, about 18 million informal caregivers provided 1.3 billion hours of care on a monthly basis (Table 1) to more than 9 million recipients age 65 or older (Freedman & Spillman 2013). About one in five informal caregivers were spouses of care-recipients, 29.3% were daughters, 18.3% were sons, and 22.3% were other relatives, about half of w

Interstate Variation and Progress Toward Balance in Use of and Expenditure for Long-Term Services and Supports in 2009. References

AARP Public Policy Institute. "State Long-Term Care Reform in Louisiana." Washington, DC: AARP Public Policy Institute, 2008. Available at http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/il/2008_10_ltc_la.pdf . Alecxih, Lisa. "Nursing Home Use by the 'Oldest Old' Sharply Declines." Report to the National Press Club, November 21, 2006. Available at http://www.

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2009-2013. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program — originally named the Aid to Dependent Children program — was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 as a grant program to enable states to provide cash welfare payments for needy children who had been deprived of parental support or care because their fathers or mothers were

Establishing an Analytical Framework for Measuring the Role of Reinsurance in the Health Insurance Market. Attachment E

Additional Reinsurance Tabulations from KPMG

Establishing an Analytical Framework for Measuring the Role of Reinsurance in the Health Insurance Market. Attachment D

Published Reinsurance Tabulations Table D-1 Percentage of Employees in Plans with Various Funding and Risk Sharing Arrangements, by Firm Size, 1996

Establishing an Analytical Framework for Measuring the Role of Reinsurance in the Health Insurance Market. b. Provider Excess

Many HMOs capitate the hospitals and physician groups with whom they contract, effectively transferring the risk onto these providers. These provider groups in turn seek reinsurance, or "provider excess" coverage, to guard against inordinately high losses. This coverage is almost always specific coverage; aggregate coverage is extremely rare. Prov

Establishing an Analytical Framework for Measuring the Role of Reinsurance in the Health Insurance Market. a. HMO Reinsurance

Our informants suggested that HMO reinsurance is a product that is primarily used by smaller, less well capitalized HMOs, including start-up plans. HMO reinsurance is usually written on a specific stoploss basis and primarily is for hospital claims. 19 The stoploss retentions for start-up and smaller HMOs may be as low as $35,000 to $50,000 per e

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