Underlying Causes and Policy Solutions
Submitted Nancy Chockley
President and CEO
NIHCM Foundation www.nihcm.org
Policymakers working to reduce the number of persons without health insurance sometimes note the significant number of uninsured who are already eligible for public coverage but not enrolled. In this essay, Dr. Genevieve Kenney of the Urban Institute explores reasons behind this phenomenon and describes steps that can be taken to facilitate and encourage enrollment among eligible individuals. She stresses the importance of multi-faceted approaches that promote program awareness, simplify eligibility determination, and automate enrollment and renewal processes. As our country considers expansions in publicly funded coverage, these lessons should be top of mind in order to maximize program enrollment and reach as many uninsured people as possible.
Expert Voices
Other recent Expert Voices essays on health reform include:
- Eric Jensen, Consultant, and Lenny Mendonca, McKinsey & Company, “Why America Spends More on Health Care” (November 2009)
- Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Role of Individual Mandates in Health Reform” (January 2009).
- Paul N. Van de Water, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “Scoring Health Legislation” (April 2009).
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