Report

Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care

Released:: October 11, 2001
Type:: Consensus Report
Topics:: Health Services, Coverage, and Access, Public Health
Activity:: Consequences of Uninsurance
Board:: Board on Health Care Services

Coverage Matters is the first report of the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance. This report is based on a consensus of the Committee, which was appointed by the National Academies in response to a request from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

It is the first of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United States and address the extent to which Americans are without coverage, identifies social, economic, and policy factors that contribute to the situation, and reports the relative probability of being uninsured for various groups.

Report at a Glance

Report Brief: Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care (PDF)

Report Brief: Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care (Spanish) (PDF)

Reports of Interest

Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations Released: January 13, 2004
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America Released: June 18, 2003
Uninsurance in America Released: April 16, 2003

A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance Released: April 2, 2003
Health Insurance is a Family Matter Released: September 18, 2002
Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late Released: May 21, 2002

America's Children: Health Insurance and Access to Care Released: January 1, 1998
Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Health Action Released: January 31, 2012
Barriers to Integrating Crisis Standards of Care Principles into... Released: January 23, 2012

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Other Reports by this Activity

Displaying: 3 of 6 Reports

Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations The report is the culmination of a series that offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the consequences of lack of health insurance on individuals, their families, communities and the whole society. The principles to guide health finance reform that are recommended in this sixth and final report of the series are based on the evidence reviewed in the Committee's previous five reports and on new analyses of past and present federal, state, and local efforts to reduce uninsurance.
Released: January 13, 2004
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America, the fifth of a series of six reports on the consequences of uninsurance in the United States, illustrates some of the economic and social losses to the country of maintaining so many people without health insurance. The report explores the potential economic and societal benefits that could be realized if everyone had health insurance on a continuous basis, as people over age 65 currently do with Medicare.
Released: June 18, 2003
Uninsurance in America The report, Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations was released to the public on Wednesday, January 14, 2004.
Released: April 16, 2003