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Genevieve M. Kenney
@kenneygm
Co-Director and Senior Fellow in the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center.
Washington, D.C.urbn.is/1d95uPNJoined December 2013
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@kenneygm
Access to affordable preventive care is at stake for millions due to Court Challenge emanating out of Texas
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Katherine Hempstead
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New from Urban: Huge health and financial consequences to ending access to free preventive care. Free Preventive Services Improve Access to Care urban.org/research/publi
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Genevieve M. Kenney
@kenneygm
In the unexpected good news department, health insurance coverage among kids seems to have increased over the course of the pandemic...
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Julia Long
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With all of the incredibly distressing news in the last week or so, here's something encouraging to highlight: between 2019 and 2021, uninsurance among children actually decreased. urban.org/research/publi
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Genevieve M. Kenney
@kenneygm
Based on these results, we highlight a few policy solutions now under consideration that may alleviate pressure on parents: -Expanding health ins coverage -Expanding paid leave/child care -Improving COVID vax rates -Pandemic-related $$ assistance 6/6
urban.org
Parents with Low Incomes Faced Greater Health Challenges and Problems Accessing and Affording...
In this report, we use data from the April 2021 Health Reform Monitoring Survey to assess health status, health insurance coverage, health care access and affordability, and worries about other basic...
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@kenneygm
Parents with family incomes <138%FPL were 3x as likely as parents >400%FPL to have delayed or forgone care in the last year for reasons besides COVID. Across all 3 income groups, about 1/4 of parents reported delaying/forgoing care in the last year due to COVID concerns. 5/6
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@kenneygm
Importantly, parents with incomes <138%FPL were 9x more likely to be uninsured than parents in the highest income bracket. 4/6
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Urban Institute
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From J. Haley, @julialong_, & @kenneygm: In April 2021, parents with incomes at or below 138% of federal poverty level were more than 9x more likely to be uninsured than those with incomes at or above 400% of FPL urbn.is/3G5RgkO
Bar graph showing health insurance coverage at the time of the survey among nonelderly parents, by family income, April 2021
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@kenneygm
Almost one-third (29.7%) of parents with incomes <138% FPL reported problems paying family medical bills. 15.5% of parents with incomes between 138%FPL and 400%FPL and only 4.2% of parents with incomes >400%FPL reported the same. 3/6
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Compared with parents >400%FPL, parents with family incomes <138% FPL were: - More likely to report they were in fair or poor health, - More likely to report at least one chronic condition, - 2x as likely to report having mental & behavioral health conditions. 2/6
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Genevieve M. Kenney
@kenneygm
Thank you
@KosaliSimon
&
@tradeoffspod
for highlighting this important working paper finding a link between greater Medicaid eligibility and lower incarceration rates for young adults with mental health issues; @JudyCBPP
@JoanAlker1
@haroldpollack
@BrianDSmedley
@BrendanSaloner
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Kosali Simon
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Thanks to @tradeoffspod for elevating research by @elisajacome showing Medicaid impacts on mental health care, racial equity @IUONeillSchool @Irsay_IU @IUImpact @kenneygm twitter.com/tradeoffspod/s…
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Alena Stern
@AlenaStern
✨Extremely cool #DataScience job alert ✨Come work
@urbaninstitute
with my amazing colleagues
@ClaireMKBowen
and
@awunderground
on fascinating and vitally important #DataPrivacy research. Apply at the link below 👇
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Claire McKay Bowen
@ClaireMKBowen
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Interested in #DataScience and #PublicPolicy work? Come work with us @urbaninstitute as a #DataScientist! #RStats #python #statistics #AcademicTwitter #WomenInComputing urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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Stephen Zuckerman
@zuckermans
Overall coverage remained steady during the pandemic not b/c no one lost employer coverage (5.5M adults did just that), but b/c almost 8M adults gained public coverage, many due to provisions established by the #ACA and other COVID-19 legislation. #publicpolicymatters
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Urban Institute
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New analysis from Michael Karpman & @zuckermans shows that, despite the pandemic's economic impact, the percentage of adults ages 18-64 in the US without health insurance held steady at approximately 11%: urbn.is/3zcGbLp
Chart showing sources of health insurance coverage among adults ages 18-64, March 2019 to April 2021
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Laudan Aron
@laudyaron
“Life expectancy across the country plummeted by nearly two years from 2018 to 2020, the largest decline since 1943, … But while white Americans lost 1.36 years, Black Americans lost 3.25 years and Hispanic Americans lost 3.88 years.”
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Black and Hispanic Americans Suffer Most in Biggest US Decline in Life Expectancy Since WWII
The pandemic will undermine Americans’ health for years. Even those not infected by the coronavirus could suffer health problems related to poverty, job loss, eviction — or all of the above.…
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Stephen Zuckerman
@zuckermans
New
@urbaninstitute
analysis shows that fixing the "family glitch" would save families with incomes below 200% FPL switching from ESI $580 per person. The fix achieves more affordable coverage. .urban.org/research/publi
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Galen Institute
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An administrative fix to the 'family glitch' would be illegal & harmful—New Brian Blase paper - mailchi.mp/galen/announce
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Stephen Zuckerman
@zuckermans
New work by
@Agangopadhyaya
shows racial inequities betw blacks and whites in quality of health care due, in part, to differences in the hospitals at which they are treated. full study at: urban.org/sites/default/
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Anuj Gangopadhyaya
@Agangopadhyaya
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White patients were significantly more likely to be admitted into high-quality hospitals for 9 of the 11 patient safety indicators (including 6 of the 7 surgery-related patient safety measures).
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