Health insurance and health care access before and after SSDI entry
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Livermore, Gina. Stapleton, David. Claypool, Henry. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Services Accessibility -- economics Health Services Accessibility -- statistics & numerical data Health Services Needs and Demand -- economics Health Services Needs and Demand -- statistics & numerical data Insurance Coverage -- economics Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Insurance, Disability -- economics Insurance, Disability -- statistics & numerical data Medicare -- legislation & jurisprudence Social Security -- economics Social Security -- statistics & numerical data Disability Evaluation Disabled Persons -- statistics & numerical data Employment -- statistics & numerical data Health Care Costs -- statistics & numerical data Health Care Surveys Health Status Logistic Models Medically Uninsured Poverty Time Factors Humans United States United States. Social Security Administration.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This report uses National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data linked to data from the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Medicare programs to create profiles of SSDI beneficiaries during the three years before and after SSDI entry to illustrate changes in insurance status, health care access, and utilization. It finds that SSDI beneficiaries are less likely to be insured, even three years prior to SSDI entry, and that utilization and access problems peak right before and after entry. At the time their SSDI applications were allowed, 11 percent of beneficiaries had completed the entire 24-month Medicare waiting period and about one-third had completed 12 months or more. This implies that eliminating the Medicare waiting period would help many beneficiaries who lack health insurance. However, this policy alone would not be of help to beneficiaries who are uninsured before entry and whose allowances are made at long intervals after SSDI entitlement.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101529528 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101529528