Health insurance and poverty of the older population in the United States: The importance of a health inclusive poverty measure

Korenman, Sanders; Remler, Dahlia K.; Hyson, Rosemary

doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2020.100297

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“…Poverty is linked to a variety of negative outcomes. For example, extreme poverty is the strongest predictor of homelessness (Glynn, Byrne, and Culhane 2021; Timmer, Eitzen, and Talley 2019) and low‐income communities have higher rates of health issues, often combined with limited access to health care systems (Clarke and Erreygers 2020; Korenman, Remler, and Hyson 2021; Sverdlik 2011). Extreme weather events can amplify these inequalities by instantaneously displacing previously housed individuals.…”

Section: Background and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions*

Whitley

Bowers

2023

Sociological Inquiry

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Although researchers have broadly addressed how race, party identification, political ideology, and binary gender categories influence climate change opinions, little attention has been paid to the relationship between sexuality and gender variance (LGBTQ+ identity broadly) and climate change perceptions. Using a quota‐based survey from 2022 that approximates the US population on key demographic characteristics and oversamples LGBTQ+ individuals, we assess the degree to which LGBTQ+ individuals' climate change beliefs and risk perceptions are comparable to cisgender, heterosexual (cishet) individuals, specifically examining climate change beliefs, the perceived threat climate change poses, and worry about climate change. We argue that LGBTQ+ individuals' views are likely to be distinct from their cisgender heterosexual (cishet) counterparts for three reasons: climate change is likely to exacerbate existing structural inequalities, create disaster responses that reinforce heteronormative and discriminatory patterns, and activate LGBTQ+ political culture. We find evidence that LGBTQ+ individuals express higher agreement with climate change beliefs, identify climate change as a greater threat, and worry more about climate change when compared to their cishet counterparts.

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Section: Background and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions*

Whitley

Bowers

2023

Sociological Inquiry

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“…Park, et al [62] further divided and compared MA users and found that the rapid increase of MA users is due to the influx of new entrants of the elderly rather than the existing ones. In another study, Korenman, et al [63] found that Health Inclusive Poverty Measures, including medical insurance, can effectively reduce the poverty rate of the elderly and provide more accurate guidance for social policies.…”

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Exploring the Intention of Middle-Aged and Elderly Consumers to Participate in Inclusive Medical Insurance

Liu

Jing

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IEEE Access

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With the sudden and heavy consequences of diseases, medical insurance has become a vital part of the medical system. Inclusive medical insurance (IMI) aims to help people manage personal health risks from an economic perspective under the cooperation of government and private enterprises. With the worsening aging phenomenon in China, middle-aged and elderly consumers inevitably need to choose insurance services. However, the diversification of service forms and contents implies potential loopholes that may affect their intention to participate in insurance. In this study, we establish a trust mechanism model combining finance, technology, and institutions; collect and organize data using questionnaires; and explore the link between trust and intention to participate in IMI. Our results show that new service concepts under digital channels can increase financial trust, perceived ease of use affects technical trust, and reputation and security mechanisms positively affect institutional trust. Furthermore, trust transfer occurs among the three types of trust. At the same time, financial trust and institutional trust positively affect middle-aged and elderly consumers' intention to participate in insurance. The findings of our study have theoretical value and practical implications for IMI research.

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“…Treating MOOP expenditures as a nondiscretionary drain on household resources results in a significant increase in the poverty rate of the elderly (Chavez et al 2018). From another perspective, Korenman et al (2021) advocate using a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure (HIPM), which incorporates health needs and benefits as part of the poverty threshold, and counting health insurance benefits as a resource that can be used to meet those needs. They show that the HIPM poverty rate is nearly 2 percentage points lower than the SPM rate for the elderly.…”

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Elderly Poverty and its Measurement

Niimi

Horioka

2021

SSRN Journal

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This paper examines various aspects of elderly poverty and its measurement. It first discusses some of the most important issues relating to measuring elderly poverty.It then reviews recent trends in elderly poverty, which show considerable heterogeneity in the extent of elderly poverty even among developed countries. Such cross-country differences are due at least partly to differences in the generosity of public old-age pensions and other social safety nets for the elderly. Empirical evidence also corroborates that the expansion of public pension programs has often played a key role in reducing elderly poverty.

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Health insurance and poverty of the older population in the United States: The importance of a health inclusive poverty measure

Cited by 11 publications

References 27 publications

Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions*

Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions*

Exploring the Intention of Middle-Aged and Elderly Consumers to Participate in Inclusive Medical Insurance

Elderly Poverty and its Measurement

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