Expanding Health Care Coverage

By

Public Health Solutions

Funding Area

Expanding Health Care Coverage

Date

May 1, 2011

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This NYHealth-supported brief by Public Health Solutions examines how moving from a paper-based system to electronic applications can simplify the health insurance enrollment process for uninsured low-income individuals and families.

Research in public insurance enrollment continues to demonstrate that a complex and burdensome public health insurance enrollment process is one of the primary reasons why eligible New Yorkers remain uninsured. The brief finds that replacing paper and manual processes with automated ones can make it significantly easier for families to apply for and enroll in health insurance coverage and allows more efficiency for agencies to provide facilitated enrollment services.