Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT): Publications by Staff

Alan Monheit

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Health insurance enrollment decisions: preferences for coverage, worker sorting, and insurance take-up
Publication: Inquiry 45(2):153-67
Date: Summer 2008
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: The demand for dependent health insurance: How important is the cost of family coverage?
Publication: J Health Econ 24:1108-31
Date: Nov. 2005
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Monheit A, Schone B
Title: How has small group market reform affected employee health insurance coverage?
Publication: J Public Econ 88:237-54. AHRQ Pub. No.04-R030
Date: 2003

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J, Zuvekas S
Title: Stability and change in health insurance status: New estimates from the 1996 MEPS
Publication: MEPS Research Findings No. 18. AHRQ Pub. No. 02-0006. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 2001
Abstract: Initiatives to expand health insurance coverage have focused not only on the size of the uninsured population but also on the stability and continuity of coverage. This report from AHRQ describes the health insurance experience of the U.S. population during 1996, using data from the 1996 MEPS. It provides alternative estimates of the uninsured population and the prevalence of full-year and part-year coverage. It also examines the extent to which people insured at the beginning of a calendar year become uninsured and the likelihood that those uninsured at the beginning of the year will acquire coverage.

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J, Eisenberg J
Title: Moving to Medicare: trends in the health insurance status of near elderly workers, 1987-1996
Publication: Health Aff 20(2):204-13. AHRQ Pub. No. 01-R047
Date: 2001
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Monheit A, Selden T
Title: Cross-subsidization in the market for employment-related health insurance
Publication: Health Econ 9:699-714. AHRQ Pub. No. 01-R034
Date: 2000
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Race/ethnicity and health insurance status: 1987 and 1996
Publication: Med Care Res Rev 57(Suppl 1):11-35. AHRQ Pub. No. 01-R009
Date: 2000
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Kass B, Weinick R, Monheit A
Title: Racial and ethnic differences in health, 1996
Publication: MEPS Chartbook, No. 2. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: February 1999
Abstract: This report presents estimates of health insurance coverage, access to health care, and health status for Hispanic, black, and white Americans.

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Health insurance availability at the workplace—How important are worker preferences?
Publication: J Human Res 34(4):770-85. AHRQ Pub. No. 00-R013
Date: 1999
Abstract: Analysts have frequently interpreted the uneven distribution of health insurance across firms of varying size as evidence of insurance market failure in the small-group market. The authors explored an additional explanation by considering the relationship between employee preferences for health insurance and its availability at the workplace. The authors applied a simple model of job choice to data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) to examine whether workers with weak preferences for health insurance sort themselves into jobs without coverage. The results for a sample of single workers are consistent with such sorting behavior.

Authors: Monheit A, Schone B, Taylor A
Title: Health insurance choices in two-worker households: Determinants of double coverage
Publication: Inquiry 36:12-29. AHCPR Pub. No. 99-R072
Date: 1999
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Uninsured workers—job characteristics, 1996
Publication: MEPS Highlights No. 8. AHCPR Pub. No. 99-0008. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1998
Abstract: Summary of uninsured status by self-employed and wage-earner status, size of business, hourly wage, and number of hours worked.

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Uninsured workers—demographic characteristics, 1996
Publication: MEPS Highlights No. 7. AHCPR Pub. No. 99-0007. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1998
Abstract: Summary of uninsured status by race/ethnicity, age, sex, and health status.

Authors: Vistnes J, Monheit A
Title: Health insurance profile: Race/ethnicity and sex—1996
Publication: MEPS Highlights No. 6. AHCPR Pub. No. 98-0052. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1998
Abstract: Summary of health insurance status by race/ethnicity and sex for Americans under 65.

Authors: Vistnes J, Monheit A
Title: Health insurance coverage in America—1996
Publication: MEPS Highlights No. 4. AHCPR Pub. No. 98-0031. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1998
Abstract: Summary of coverage status of Americans in 1996.

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Health insurance status of workers and their families: 1996
Publication: MEPS Research Findings No. 2. AHCPR Pub. No. 97-0065. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1997
Abstract: This report uses data from the first round of the 1996 MEPS to describe the health insurance status of working Americans and their families.

Authors: Vistnes J, Monheit A
Title: Health insurance status of the civilian noninstitutionalized population: 1996
Publication: MEPS Research Findings No. 1. AHCPR Pub. No. 97-0030. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1997
Abstract: This report from the 1996 MEPS provides preliminary estimates of the health insurance status of the civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. population during the first half of 1996, including the size and characteristics of the population with private health insurance, with public insurance, and without any health care coverage.

Authors: Cohen J, Monheit A, Beauregard K, et al
Title: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: A national health information resource
Publication: Inquiry 33:373-89. AHCPR Pub. No. 97-R043
Date: 1996/97
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Monheit A, Nichols L, Selden T
Title: How are net health insurance benefits distributed in the employment-related insurance market?
Publication: Inquiry 32:379-91. AHCPR Pub. No. 96-R054
Date: 1995/96
Abstract: The recent health care reform debate has questioned whether the health insurance market effectively pools risks and transfers income across states of health. The authors used data from the 1987 NMES to examine how net health insurance benefits are distributed in the employment-related insurance market. The authors found this market to transfer income from those in good health to those with health problems and the tax subsidy from employer health insurance contributions to be a crucial determinant of the net benefit distribution. To the extent society views these transfers as meritorious, the findings suggest caution regarding initiatives to limit or eliminate the tax subsidy.

Authors: Monheit A, Vistnes J
Title: Implicit pooling of workers from large and small firms
Publication: Health Aff 13(1):301-14
Date: Spring 1994
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

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