Access to Care

HSC closely monitors changes in access to and quality of health care from the viewpoint of consumers and physicians. Studies about access to care include the uninsured and those with low incomes, as well as racial and ethnic minorities and people with chronic conditions.

Title	Date	Document Info
More Americans Willing to Limit Physician-Hospital Choice for Lower Medical CostsHa T. Tu	March 2005	Issue Brief No. 94
More Nonelderly Americans Face Problems Affording Prescription DrugsLaurie E. Felland, James D. Reschovsky	January 2009	Tracking Report No. 22
Most Uninsured People Unaware of Health Care Safety Net ProvidersJessica H. May, Peter J. Cunningham, Jack Hadley	November 2004	Issue Brief No. 90
Mounting Pressures: Physicians Serving Medicaid Patients and the Uninsured, 1997-2001Peter J. Cunningham	December 2002	Tracking Report No. 6
Perception, Reality and Health Insurance: Uninsured as Likely as Insured to Perceive Need for Care but Half as Likely to Get CareJack Hadley, Peter J. Cunningham	October 2005	Issue Brief No. 100
Physicians Pulling Back from Charity CareMarie C. Reed, Peter J. Cunningham, Jeffrey Stoddard	August 2001	Issue Brief No. 42
Prescription Drug Access Disparities Among Working-Age AmericansMarie C. Reed, J. Lee Hargraves	December 2003	Issue Brief No. 73
Prescription Drug Access: Not Just a Medicare ProblemPeter J. Cunningham	April 2002	Issue Brief No. 51
Primary Care Physicians Concerned about Patients' Access to Mental Health ServicesMiriam Shuchman, Robert F. St. Peter	Fall 1997	Data Bulletin No. 06
Primary Care Workforce Shortages: Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Payment PoliciesTracy Yee, Ellyn R. Boukus, Dori A. Cross, Divya R. Samuel	February 2013	NIHCR Research Brief No. 13
Public Health Departments Adapt to Medicaid Managed CareRose Marie Martinez, Elizabeth Closter	November 1998	Issue Brief No. 16
Race, Ethnicity and Preventive Services:J. Lee Hargraves	January 2001	Issue Brief No. 34
Relief, Restoration and Reform: Economic Upturn Yields Modest and Uneven Health ReturnsRobert E. Hurley, Aaron Katz, Laurie E. Felland	January 2008	Issue Brief No. 117
Rising Health Costs, Medical Debt and Chronic ConditionsHa T. Tu	September 2004	Issue Brief No. 88
Rising Hospital Employment of Physicians: Better Quality, Higher Costs?Ann S. O'Malley, Amelia M. Bond, Robert A. Berenson	August 2011	Issue Brief No. 136
Safety Net Hospital Emergency Departments: Creating Safety Valves for Non-Urgent CareLaurie E. Felland, Robert E. Hurley, Nicole M. Kemper	May 2008	Issue Brief No. 120
Satisfaction and Quality:Marie C. Reed, Robert F. St. Peter	Fall 1997	Data Bulletin No. 03
So Much to Do, So Little Time: Physician Capacity Constraints, 1997-2001Sally Trude	May 2003	Tracking Report No. 8
Stretching the Safety Net to Serve Undocumented Immigrants: Community Responses to Health NeedsAndrea Staiti, Robert E. Hurley, Aaron Katz	February 2006	Issue Brief No. 104
Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety NetLaurie E. Felland, Johanna Lauer, Peter J. Cunningham	July 2009	HSC Research Brief No. 13