Insurance Coverage & Costs

HSC analyses focus on private and public insurance coverage, the uninsured and the cost of health care. HSC research provides insight into a range of topics, including how health care costs are changing, why the nation's number of uninsured continues to rise and how employer-sponsored coverage is changing.

Title	Date	Document Info
Wall Street Analysts Predict Several Years of Higher Health Plan Premiums	June 10, 1999	Conference Executive Summary
Defining "Defined Contributions":	October 10, 2000	Conference Transcript
How to Make Tax Credits for Health Insurance Work: The Role of Purchasing Pools	April 10, 2001	Conference Transcript
Fifth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington:	June 21, 2000	Conference Transcript
Update on the Nation's Health Care System:	November 16, 1999	Conference Transcript
Individual Health Insurance: Fact, Opinion and Policy	October 23, 2002	Conference Transcript
Fourth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington:	June 9, 1999	Conference Transcript
Patient Cost Sharing: Promises and Pitfalls	Dec. 3, 2003	Conference Transcript
Myths About The Uninsured	March 9, 2004	Congressional Testimony
Consumer Price Shopping in Health Care	March 15, 2006	Congressional Testimony
Price and Quality Transparency of Medical Services	April 2, 2009	Congressional Testimony
How Consumers Shop for Health Care When They Pay Out of Pocket: Evidence from the LASIK Self-Pay Market	July 18, 2006	Congressional Testimony
Association Health Plans and Alternative Ways to Increase Health Insurance Coverage Among Workers in Small FirmsLen M. Nichols	Feb. 5, 2003	Congressional Testimony
Uninsurance Rates Vary Widely Across Communities and RegionsPeter J. Cunningham, Jeremy D. Pickreign	Fall 1997	Data Bulletin No. 05
Trends in Managed Care Coverage in Small Firms	Winter 1998	Data Bulletin No. 09
More Small Firms Offer Health Insurance but Fewer Employees Enroll	Winter 1998	Data Bulletin No. 10
Growth of Medicaid-Dominated HMOs	Spring 1998	Data Bulletin No. 11
How Widespread Is Managed Competition?Stephen H. Long, M. Susan Marquis	Summer 1998	Data Bulletin No. 12
Despite Fears, Costs Rise Only Modestly in 1998	Fall 1998	Data Bulletin No. 13
Trends in the Cost of Employer-Sponsored CoverageM. Susan Marquis, Stephen H. Long	Fall 1998	Data Bulletin No. 14