- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
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1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -
2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality -
3 Measuring Poverty -
4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty -
5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States -
6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America -
7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring -
8 The Demise of a Dinosaur -
9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts -
10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s -
11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration -
12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty -
13 U.S. Education and Training Policy -
14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination -
15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills” -
16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty -
17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility -
18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It? -
19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States -
20 How Much More Can They Work? -
21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal -
22 Fighting Poverty -
23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship -
24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code -
25 Minority Business Development Programs -
26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven - Contributors
- Index
Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
- Chapter:
- (p.117) 4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
- Source:
- Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy
- Author(s):
Gary Burtless
Sarah Siegel
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses health care expenditures, particularly on the effects of three basic methods of including household spending on health care in the measurement of poverty. The first is the method embodied in the official poverty statistics. The other two are based on the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance. The chapter begins with the definition of poverty, followed by alternative approaches to treating household medical spending in an assessment of family needs and resources. It also describes the theoretical approach proposed by the NAS poverty statistics panel and then outlines the alternative methods suggested for this approach. The treatment of health insurance and health care expenses in the definition of poverty are then discussed. The chapter ends with an analysis of statistical results and a brief conclusion.
Keywords: healthcare expenditures, poverty, statistical results, NAS, medical spending, health insurance
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
-
1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality -
2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality -
3 Measuring Poverty -
4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty -
5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States -
6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America -
7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring -
8 The Demise of a Dinosaur -
9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts -
10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s -
11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration -
12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty -
13 U.S. Education and Training Policy -
14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination -
15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills” -
16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty -
17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility -
18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It? -
19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States -
20 How Much More Can They Work? -
21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal -
22 Fighting Poverty -
23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship -
24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code -
25 Minority Business Development Programs -
26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven - Contributors
- Index
