Comments
"As officials and analysts think about how best to reverse the erosion of health insurance coverage, they should give thanks to the editor and authors of Health Policy and the Uninsured for informative and accessible essays that deepen understanding of why people lack health insurance coverage, which groups are most seriously affected, and how the lack of insurance influences health, employment, and other behavior. Such analyses are vital to formulating sensible policies."
—Henry J. Aaron
The Brookings Institution
"Health Policy and the Uninsured is full of very rigorous and thoughtful analyses. Let's use them as a call for action, not an excuse for inaction. Dr. McLaughlin and her colleagues note that social scientists should always search for better answers. But they also note that 'Social scientists can wait; policy makers cannot.' Because the uninsured cannot wait, and a great nation should not."
—Jack Ebeler
President and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans
"Health Policy and the Uninsured illuminates what we know-and, more importantly, what we don't know-about the uninsured. The studies in this collection address the fundamental questions: Who are the uninsured? Why don't they have health insurance? How does health insurance affect health, labor markets, and society in general? Each study offers a critical review of the literature, giving the reader a perspective on how far research has taken an issue and how much further we must go."
—Joseph R. Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
"Health Policy and the Uninsured is an important book for consumers, policymakers, and researchers. The contributors are respected experts on health and labor markets who offer valuable insights on this major problem confronting the national economy."
—Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance & Risk Management, Wharton School
"The problem of an unacceptably high number of uninsured people in the United States has persisted and gotten worse. Despite decades of bemoaning this situation, little has happened. It is clear that outrage is not enough, nor is fragmentary data. What is needed is a set of facts on what causes some people, especially the majority of uninsured who are not poor, to end up without insurance. The research reported in this book provides those facts, in a way that can convince skeptics and encourage advocates."
—Mark Pauly
Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance and Risk Management, and Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
