Access to Health Care
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's topic is a good one, and hopefully it'll be informative for you, the listening audience. It's about access to healthcare and insurance, which kind of go hand in hand. We've got a great guest with us. We'll get to her in a minute. We've got a great crew that always keeps us hopping, Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell, Sheridan Nygaard, all do great, great work for us. They do background research. They do the marketing. They do the production for this show. So thank you to all of you guys. You're second to none and greatly, greatly appreciate the work that you do. My co-host for the show is Clarence Jones. Great colleague. He's got great questions.
He comes at it from a different angle than I do. which is always, it's a nice complimentary way of doing a show like this.
But I'm nice when I ask those questions, Stan, right?
Yeah, I know.
Okay, I'm a nice guy. He's always nice. I want our guests to know that I do try to be a very nice guy when I ask these probing questions.
Yeah, yeah, he's good. But from a different angle than I do. We also have a great sponsor, Human Partnership Community Health Organization. in the, actually, is it statewide, Clarence? I forgot if it's statewide. It is statewide.
Yeah, yeah. We've done some work in it as well.
Yeah, you could check them out at humanpartnership.org. We want to thank them for sponsoring us. And also, you can check us out at healthchatterpodcast. All our shows are on there. All our background research is on there if you want to read about it. And also, many of the shows are transcribed as well. So if you're more into reading the show or listening to the show, you have a choice. So there you go. Today we have a great guest. I've known her for a long, long time. And we were just chatting probably. I've known her about as long as I've known Clarence. Dr. Lynn Blewett. whose research really focuses on healthcare policies. He's at the University of Minnesota in the School of Public Health, focusing on healthcare policy and access.
and she directs the State Health Access Data Assistance Center. And do you call that Shadack? Shadack? Shadack. Shadack, okay. Shadack. Shadack, okay. Her expertise is in healthcare policy, access to care, which we're gonna get into some of these definitions, by the way, so everybody's clear. Looking at disparities, She's also, I remember we worked together at the State Health Department before she went to the University of Minnesota. Wonderful person, wonderful colleague, and many, many thanks for being on our show today, Glenn. Nice to have you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, so let's get this thing going here. We're talking about access to healthcare slash health. insurance. So let's maybe start this out by what the heck do we mean by access specifically to health care?
Well, a lot of times people start with health insurance coverage and that this is like the mechanism to get you in to see a doctor if you have health insurance coverage. And then you, so sometimes when people talk about access to care, they're talking about access to health insurance coverage. And that's where we spend a lot of time in terms of using survey data and information to understand who's covered and by what type of health insurance and then who's not covered. And that's kind of the vehicle to get access. What you really care about is that people have access to a healthcare provider to get the care that they need. But usually, you know, I would say most people will start like, do you have health insurance coverage and what kind of health insurance coverage? And then who's in your network and who can you, you know, who do you have access to see when you need care?
So the insurance then, if I'm reading you right, is kind of the entree to the whole idea of access itself, correct?
Yes.
All right. And then there are issues. around access but we'll get we'll get to that in a second so can you you know that to be honest with you even for those of us who've been in the industry it can be even confusing for us okay because it's like oh my god there's private insurance there's public coverage it's um
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