Dr. Blewett was quoted in Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial: "Time to operate/The quiet toll of health-care cuts."
December 26, 2004
Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial, 12/26/04, reprinted with permission.
Press release: SHADAC researchers find disparities in how states cover uninsured children. The results, published their research in the November/December 2004 issue of Health Affairs.
December 1, 2004:
Drs. Lynn Blewett and Michael Davern found that between the pre- and post-SCHIP time periods (1996-1998 and 2001-2002), for example, only 27 of the 51 states and the District of Columbia had significant declines in the percent of uninsured children after controlling for individual socio-demographic, employment, and other characteristics. Twenty-nine states saw significant increases in the percent of children enrolled in public health care programs, while only five states saw a significant increase in the percent of children with private health insurance coverage.