Findings from University of Minnesota Update Understanding of Public Health (Insurance-based Discrimination Reports and Access To Care Among Nonelderly Us Adults, 2011-2019): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2023 APR 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- New research on Health and Medicine - Public Health is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “To report insurance-based discrimination rates for nonelderly adults with private, public, or no insurance between 2011 and 2019, a period marked by passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and threats to it. We used 2011-2019 data from the biennial Minnesota Health Access Survey.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Minnesota, “Each year, about 4000 adults aged 18 to 64 years report experiences with insurance-based discrimination. Using logistic regressions, we examined associations between insurance-based discrimination and (1) sociodemographic factors and (2) indicators of access. Insurance-based discrimination was stable over time and consistently related to insurance type: approximately 4% for adults with private insurance compared with adults with public insurance (21%) and no insurance (27%). Insurance-based discrimination persistently interfered with confidence in getting needed care and forgoing care.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Policy changes from 2011 to 2019 affected access to health insurance, but high rates of insurance-based discrimination among adults with public insurance or no insurance were impervious to such changes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Insurance-based Discrimination Reports and Access To Care Among Nonelderly Us Adults, 2011-2019. American Journal of Public Health, 2023;113(2):213-223. American Journal of Public Health can be contacted at: Amer Public Health Assoc Inc, 800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3710, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kathleen Thiede Call, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States. Additional authors for this research include Giovann Alarcon -Espinoza, Natalie Schwer Mac Arthur and Rhonda Jones -Webb.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2022.307126. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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