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Research & Publications

The Health Policy area provides research and data on health system issues for Missouri policymakers, advocates, and the general public. With fact-based, non-partisan research, the MFH Health Policy area works to inform long-term positive health system change.

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Overview of Coverage and the Uninsured

Expanding Coverage to the Uninsured

Medicaid and SCHIP

Health Disparities

Surveys

Health Care Delivery and Payment Reform

Advocacy Trainings

MFH works to build the capacity of Missouri nonprofits to provide a voice for the uninsured, underinsured, and underserved in the policymaking process. Learn more about training opportunities here.

Links & Resources

The MFH Resource Directory contains links and resources to helpful information in more than 30 health-related categories.
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More Information

For more information on MFH Health Policy, contact:

Christine Raborn
Administrative Assistant
314.345.5576
craborn@mffh.org

Overview of Coverage and the Uninsured

Publications

Charity Care at Missouri Hospitals, 2004 - 2006

This report examines how the 2005 changes to Medicaid have affected 40 Missouri hospitals, using data on uncompensated care and emergency department use. An executive summary is also available.

Consequences of the Lack of Health Insurance on Health and Earnings

This paper represents the first in the series emerging under the Cover MissouriProject. It examines the serious health and financial consequences associated with being uninsured, as well as the importance of health insurance as it relates to people's access to care, use of services and ultimately to their health outcomes.

Health Insurance Coverage of Dual-Income Families: The Free-Rider Effect and the Cost to Employers

This paper shows that companies providing health insurance to the spouses of their employees are assuming additional health care costs of more than $46 billion nationally, including $891 million for companies in the state of Missouri. It examines the “free-rider effect,” and the distribution of costs associated with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) among dual-income families.

The Cost of Care for Missouri's Uninsured

This data book examines the cost of the uninsured borne by the state and its residents.

Geographic Variations in Health Insurance: A Profile of Missouri

This study examines trends in insurance coverage by geographic area and by subgroups such as age, ethnicity, income, and firm size. It also analyzes differences in the types of insurance that people have in large cities compared to rural communities and small cities throughout Missouri.

Health Care Expenditures and Insurance in Missouri

This paper presents an estimate of personal health care spending and the distribution of health insurance coverage in Missouri in the year 2003. Several data sources were used to develop estimates as no single repository for this varied information exists.

Health Insurance Coverage in Missouri, 2003 - 2004

This chart book profiles sources of health insurance coverage in Missouri.

The Missouri Economy and Changes in Health Insurance Coverage, 2000 - 2004

Summary: This paper provides a broad overview of how individual states areconfronting the nationwide challenge of constraining health care costs. It offers a timely and much-needed view to a range of policies, as well as their potentials and their costs.