Via: The Advisory Board Company The Fiscal Year (FY) begins every July 1 in every state, the Federal FY begins October 1. This year the legislature passed and the governor signed a $28.4 billion budget. The Republican controlled State Senate voted 40-10 to include Medicaid (sponsored by House Republican Dan Moul of Adams and FranklinContinue reading “Pennsylvania Medicaid Expansion and Legislature Polarization”
Tag Archives: Uninsured
Christus Medicus and Single Payer Healthcare (Cross Post with PUSH)
On Saturday, March 16, I went to a talk at the Newman Center in Pittsburgh titled: Wine, Cheese, and Catholic Response to Healthcare Reform It was given by pediatrician Brian Donnelly, MD. He spoke mostly of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraception and abortion mandate. He did not directly address the need for comprehensiveContinue reading “Christus Medicus and Single Payer Healthcare (Cross Post with PUSH)”
Texas and 5 Other States not participating in Medicaid Expansion So Far
Texas now added itself to the five other states above in dark red which will not participate in the ACA medicaid expansion even though it leads the nation in the percent uninsured at 26.3% and is correlated most strongly with income and the % Latino population at the county level. Here is Texas Gov. RickContinue reading “Texas and 5 Other States not participating in Medicaid Expansion So Far”
Latino rates in Pennsylvania’s Uninsured (Cross Post with PUSH)
In 2009 when President Obama was presenting the affordable care act to Congress, Rep. Joe Wilson famously called out “you lie” when he stated that illegal immigrants would not be covered. He wasn’t lying. On Feb 25 I did a presentation on census data for Pennsylvania’s and Texas’ uninsured as it relates to their respectiveContinue reading “Latino rates in Pennsylvania’s Uninsured (Cross Post with PUSH)”
Gender Differences in Pennsylvania’s Uninsured
The new SAHIE estimates use a new survey, The American Community Survey, to derive it’s estimates of the uninsured for each county for 2008 and 2009. Previously the Census Bureau used the current population survey. This may partly explain why the 2009 estimates look somewhat different for the new estimates (especially Centre County home ofContinue reading “Gender Differences in Pennsylvania’s Uninsured”
News Health Care for All Pennsylvania
My new guest post is up on the Health Care 4 All PA as the new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates or SAHIE are out for the years 2008 and 2009 for each county in the United States. I reported the county estimates for the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 in the 67 counties inContinue reading “News Health Care for All Pennsylvania”
A Statistical Profile of the Uninsured in Washington, DC, New Mexico, and Texas
In my most read post on income and life expectancy, I used this graph to show the relationship between income and life expectancy for the 50 states. The District of Columbia, while not technically a state, was an outlier with the highest income but the lowest life expectancy making the relationship borderline significant. I reanalyzedContinue reading “A Statistical Profile of the Uninsured in Washington, DC, New Mexico, and Texas”