Author: Blumberg, Linda ; Nichols, Len
Working Paper: Why Are So Many Americans Uninsured? A Conceptual Framework, Summary of the Evidence, and Delineation of the Gaps in Our Knowledge (PDF) ; July 2002
Research Highlight 3 (HTML) (PDF) ; September 2003
Q & A with Linda Blumberg, Ph.D. (HTML) ; September 2003
Abstract:
This paper provides a conceptual framework
for understanding why the uninsured go
without health insurance. We synthesize the existing
research
studying the factors influencing the supply and
demand sides of employer-sponsored insurance as
well as the research on the extent to which lack
of coverage is a market failure. This paper is
one of six papers commissioned at the outset of
ERIU to provide a critical synthesis of the existing
literature on who does not have health insurance,
why they do not have health insurance, and what
difference health insurance makes. The papers appeared
in final form in Health Policy and the Uninsured published by Urban Institute Press in 2004. |
