Comments on: More Faulty Research from Families USA http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/more-faulty-research-from-families-usa/ Insights on Health Care Reform | NCPA Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:08:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ken http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/more-faulty-research-from-families-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-42109 Ken Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:53:52 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=3026#comment-42109 Thanks for th graph. Always good to remind everyone about the facts. Thanks for th graph. Always good to remind everyone about the facts.

]]> By: John R. Graham http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/more-faulty-research-from-families-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-42107 John R. Graham Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:07:35 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=3026#comment-42107 Because employer-based coverage results in gaps (which HIPAA and COBRA fail to solve", frictional uninsurance is unnecessarily high. I figure that 2 million or so of the uninsured are newly employed and in a waiting period at their new job (http://tinyurl.com/cmqnbv, pp. 12-13). It would be fun to ridicule Families USA's method by estimating how many years to lengthen out the period of observation before you could conclude that 100 percent of the population was uninsured. If the average person changes jobs every five years, and working live lasts 45 years, I suppose a very rough estimate would be 9 years. Because employer-based coverage results in gaps (which HIPAA and COBRA fail to solve”, frictional uninsurance is unnecessarily high. I figure that 2 million or so of the uninsured are newly employed and in a waiting period at their new job (http://tinyurl.com/cmqnbv, pp. 12-13).

It would be fun to ridicule Families USA’s method by estimating how many years to lengthen out the period of observation before you could conclude that 100 percent of the population was uninsured. If the average person changes jobs every five years, and working live lasts 45 years, I suppose a very rough estimate would be 9 years.

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