Impact of a Children's Health Insurance Program on Newly Enrolled Children
JAMAPublished 10 June 1998
Judith R. Lave
Citations163
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score5.35
SNIP10.71
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
Extending health insurance to uninsured children had a major positive impact on children and their families in western Pennsylvania, and health insurance did not lead to excessive utilization but to more appropriate utilization.
Abstract
Extending health insurance to uninsured children had a major positive impact on children and their families. In western Pennsylvania, health insurance did not lead to excessive utilization but to more appropriate utilization.
Keywords
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceHealth Professions
Medical Entomology and ZoologyExperimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research
15,238 Citations1963Donald T. Campbell, Julian C. Stanley +1 more
Southern Economic JournalFree for All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
1,007 Citations1995Leland Gerson Neuberg, Joseph P. Newhouse +1 more
The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsDoes Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance?
786 Citations1996David Cutler, Jonathan Gruber
It is estimated that between 50 percent and 75 percent of the increase in Medicaid coverage was associated with a reduction in private insurance coverage, largely because employees took up employer-based insurance less frequently, although employers may have encouraged them to do so by contributing less for insurance.
New England Journal of MedicineDoes Free Care Improve Adults' Health?
668 Citations1983Robert H. Brook, John E. Ware +8 more
PEDIATRICSChildren's Access to Primary Care: Differences by Race, Income, and Insurance Status
377 Citations1996Paul W. Newacheck, Dana C. Hughes +1 more
The existence of substantial barriers to the access to and use of primary care for low-income, minority, and uninsured children is cause for significant concern, especially in an era of program cutbacks.
PubMedUse of medical care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Diagnosis- and service-specific analyses in a randomized controlled trial.
346 Citations1986Kathleen N Lohr, Robert H. Brook +6 more
This paper aims to provide a history of medical marijuana use in the United States and investigates its role in mortality and morbidity, as well as some of the risks and benefits to individuals and the healthcare system.
Harvard University Press eBooksFree for All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
246 Citations1993Joseph P. Newhouse, Insurance Experiment Group
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government)How to design a program evaluation
231 Citations1978Carol Taylor Fitz‐Gibbon, Lynn Lyons Morris
Journal of Health Politics Policy and LawDesigning and Conducting Health Surveys
228 Citations1990Marty Wyngaarden Krauss
JAMAEffects of Medicaid Eligibility Expansion on Prenatal Care and Pregnancy Outcome in Tennessee
162 Citations1990Joyce M. Piper
Analysis of the timing of enrollment relative to the beginning of pregnancy showed that more than two thirds of the women who enrolled did so after the first trimester, and there were no concomitant improvements in use of early prenatal care, birth weight, or neonatal mortality.
JAMAThe Effect of Gaps in Health Insurance on Continuity of a Regular Source of Care Among Preschool-aged Children in the United States
161 Citations1995Michael D. Kogan
Having a gap in health insurance coverage is an important determinant for not having a regular source of care for preschool-aged children, given the sizable percentage of children in the United States who lacked continuous health care coverage during a critical period of development.
New England Journal of MedicineHealth Insurance Status and Ambulatory Care for Children
157 Citations1994Jeffrey J. Stoddard, Robert F. St. Peter +1 more
Children who lack health insurance are less likely to receive medical care from a physician when it seems reasonably indicated and are therefore at risk for substantial avoidable morbidity.
PubMedThe effects of Medicaid expansions on insurance coverage of children.
99 Citations1996Lisa Dubay, Genevieve M. Kenney
RePEc: Research Papers in EconomicsSaving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women
90 Citations1994Jonathan Gruber, Janet Currie
The Future of ChildrenChildren without Health Insurance
84 Citations1992Alan C. Monheit, Peter Cunningham
The data demonstrate that children were more likely to lack health insurance in 1987 than in 1977, that in both years children without insurance were at a disadvantage in their use of health services relative to their insured counterparts, and that over time, health service use by uninsured children declined relative to that by children with private or public coverage.
American Journal of Public HealthHow free care improved vision in the health insurance experiment.
57 Citations1989Nicole Lurie, Caren Kamberg +3 more
Visual acuity outcomes of low income vs non-poor enrollees were more adversely affected by enrollment in cost-sharing plans, and free care resulted in improved vision by increasing the frequency of eye examinations and lens purchases.
National Bureau of Economic ResearchSaving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women
49 Citations1994Janet Currie, Jonathan Gruber
A detailed simulation model of each state's Medicaid policy during the 1979-1990 period is built, and it is found that targeted changes in Medicaid eligibility, such as through relaxations of the family structure requirements from the AFDC program, had much larger effects on birth outcomes than broader expansions of eligibility.
JAMAThe effect of gaps in health insurance on continuity of a regular source of care among preschool-aged children in the United States
44 Citations1995Michael D. Kogan
Journal of Health & Social PolicyThe Impact of Lack of Health Insurance on Children
42 Citations1998Judith R. Lave, Christopher R. Keane +4 more
Being without health insurance has broad consequences for America's children, and uninsured children had experienced considerable unmet need and delayed care that increased as the time without insurance increased.
PubMedHealth of our nation's children.
32 Citations1994Coiro Mj, Nicholas Zill +1 more
This report describes the health of children 17 years of age and under in the United States and discusses overall health status, prevalence of psychological disorders, access to health care and rates of health care utilization, characteristics of family-controlled health variables, and family structure as it relates to health.
The Future of ChildrenThe Role of Medicaid and Other Government Programs in Providing Medical Care for Children and Pregnant Women
22 Citations1992Ian Hill
The author concludes that creative efforts by a growing number of states give reason to be cautiously optimistic about the prospect of progress in the future and describes the rapid evolution of this country’s publicly subsidized systems of health care for pregnant women and children during the past 5 years.
The Effects of Cost Sharing on the Health of Children
12 Citations1986Robert Otto Burciaga Valdez
The Rand Health Insurance Experiment suggested that insurance plans can be designed to shield the poor from excessive cost-sharing and preserve demand-reducing incentives for a non-aged general population without producing unacceptable health effects.