Consumer Assets and Patient Cost Sharing

Consumer Assets and Patient Cost Sharing – Issue Brief – 8699
  1. The survey asks whether anyone in the household has health insurance and if so, what types of insurance people have. The survey also ascertains whether everyone in the household is covered by the same type of health insurance, whether everyone is uninsured, and who in the household is uninsured.

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  2. Jacobs, Paul, and Gary Claxton. "Comparing the Assets of Uninsured Households to Cost Sharing Under High-Deductible Health Plans." Health Affairs 27.3 (2008): W214-221. Web. 14 Jan. 2013. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/27/3/w214.full.pdf html.

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  3. Kaiser Family Foundation. "Employer Health Benefits Survey". Sept 2015. https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2014-section-seven-employee-cost-sharing/

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  4. Averages and distributions are not weighted by enrollment. For more information see: Claxton, Gary; Cox, Cynthia and Rae, Matthew. "The Cost of Care with Marketplace coverage". Kaiser Family Foundation. February 11, 2015. https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/the-cost-of-care-with-marketplace-coverage/

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  5. Averages and distributions are not weighted by enrollment. For more information see: Claxton, Gary; Cox, Cynthia and Rae, Matthew. "The Cost of Care with Marketplace coverage". Kaiser Family Foundation. February 11, 2015. https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/the-cost-of-care-with-marketplace-coverage/

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  6. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. "2015 Poverty Guidelines." http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15poverty.cfm

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  7. The exact question wording is: "In an emergency could you (or your {husband/wife/partner}) get financial assistance of $3,000 or more from any friends or relatives who do not live with you?". "Codebook for the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances." Federal Reserve. http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scfindex.htm

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  8. Kennickell, Arthur B. “Wealth Measurement in the Survey of Consumer Finances: Methodology and Directions for Future Research”.  May 2000. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/files/measurement.pdf

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  9. Kennickell, Arthur. “Codebook for the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances.” Division of Research and Statistics Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/files/codebk2013.txt

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  10. Brian K. Bucks, Arthur B. Kennickell, Traci L. Mach and Kevin B. Moore. “Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2004 to 2007: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances.” Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 95 (February 2009), pp. A53.

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