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Covering the Uninsured: Costs,
Benefits, and Policy Alternatives for New England
How can government ensure that its citizens have access
to adequate health care? According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, an increasing share of Americans does not have
health insurance, leaving 46 million people in the U.S.
without health care coverage as of 2004. This increase
has occurred despite expansions in public health care
coverage and greater employment among the uninsured.
On December 5, 2006, the New England Public Policy
Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston hosted
a day-long conference on providing health care coverage
to the uninsured in New England. Currently, each of
the six New England states is grappling with this issue,
with legislatures either proposing or pursuing policy
changes aimed at addressing the rising rate of uninsured.
The conference convened a select group of key stakeholders
including policymakers, insurers, hospital administrators,
employers, public health advocates, and health policy
researchers from across all six New England states and
the nation.
We are pleased to release the conference report that
summarizes the proceedings of the event.
NEPPC CR No. 06-1 (February
2007)
“Covering
the Uninsured: Costs, Benefits, and Policy Alternatives
for New England” 
by Matthew Nagowski
Presentations from the conference are available here
in portable document format (PDF).
Defining the Problem:
Who Are the Uninsured and Why Are They Uninsured?
Katherine Swartz, Professor of Health Policy and
Management
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
Health Reform in the
New England States: Massachusetts as a Possible Model
John Holahan, Director
Health Policy Research Center
The Urban Institute
Reaching the Goal: Evaluating
Policy Alternatives for Expanding Coverage
Alicia Sasser, Economist
New England Public Policy Center
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Additional Information
Conference Agenda
Speaker Biographies
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