State Health Lawmakers' Digest: New Uninsured (Vol. 1, No. 3), Digging Deeper

DIGGING DEEPER

The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured has information on the uninsured and major shifts in insurance coverage. Its web site is at http://www.kff.org. Of special interest is its chart book on Uninsured in America at http://www.kff.org/content/archive/1407/.

The Urban Institute web site includes the Survey of American Families, which contains state-level data from 13 states. The survey addresses the issues of access and coverage for both children and adults and examines uninsurance rates by race and ethnicity. The site can be found at http://newfederalism.urban.org/nsaf/index.htm.

The U.S. Census Bureau web site contains statistics on the uninsured, including data on the number of uninsured people by state, low income uninsured children by state and demographic data on the uninsured. Find this site at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins.html.

The Center for Studying Health Systems Change site includes information about uninsured children and recent trends in children's health insurance coverage. This site is located at http://www.hschange.com

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) web site (http://www.ebri.org) contains various articles about the working uninsured. Its issue brief on Small Employers and Health Benefits: Findings from the 2000 Small Employer Health Benefits Survey is a good source of data on the number of working uninsured individuals and demographic characteristics of the working uninsured.

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