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- Title
Health policy and ethics forum. What other programs can teach us: increasing participation in health insurance programs.
- Authors
Remler DK; Glied SA
- Abstract
Many uninsured Americans are already eligible for free or low-cost public coverage through Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but do not 'take up' that coverage. However, several other public programs, such as food stamps and unemployment insurance, also have less-than-complete take-up rates, and take-up rates vary considerably among programs. This article examines the take-up literature across a variety of programs to learn what effects nonfinancial features, such as administrative complexity, have on take-up. We find that making benefit receipt automatic is the most effective means of ensuring high take-up, while there is little evidence that stigma is important.
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2003, Vol 93, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.93.1.67