Browsing by Author "Kathleen Call"

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    Disparities in health insurance
    (2009-05-20) Finnegan, John; Kathleen Call
    Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Overall, Minnesota ranks highly for the percentage of residents with health insurance. But Kathleen Call, a professor and health policy expert at the University of Minnesota, says that when one looks closer, you see great disparity. Call says that providing health care access to the uninsured will actually save money in the long term. With another Public Health Moment, I’m John Finnegan.
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    The economy is recovering, but the percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance remains as high now as it did two years ago
    (2012-03-06) Engebretson, Mark; Kathleen Call
    Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. The economy is recovering, but the percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance remains as high now as it did two years ago at the official end of the great recession. In 2011, 9.1 percent of Minnesotans were without health insurance, which is unchanged from 2009. That’s according to findings from the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Minnesota. That’s the average. But Minnesotans of color continue to have dramatically higher rates of uninsurance. Kathleen Call, associate professor of health policy at the University of Minnesota, explains. On the bright side, a greater percentage of young adults had health insurance coverage in 2011 than in 2009. Call believes this is a result of state policy changes and federal health reform that extended the age under which young adults could continue to be covered by their parents’ health insurance.