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Reforming Health Care: First Brief in New Series Looks at Link Between Coverage and Health
Media Advisory: April 26, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
Health care reform is a process. It will require ongoing, creative thinking and vigorous dialogue among all stakeholders on important issues. To support this dialogue, Mathematica is launching a series of briefs that highlight issues central to the process of health care reform. The series is intended to help policymakers understand the research base for the critical choices they will make in implementing the federal health reform law.
This brief, the first in the series, synthesizes the compelling research evidence linking health insurance coverage to good health outcomes. Forthcoming topics will include preventive services, evidence-based care, disease management, financial incentives, medical homes, and other topics.
“How Does Insurance Coverage Improve Health Outcomes?”
Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet, and Stephanie Peterson
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, international, disability, education, family support, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs.