caa a22 4500 475841743 CHVBK 20180406123902.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009425908098 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009425908098 Davis John Economics, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI, USA aut Conceptualising the Lack of Health Insurance Coverage [Elektronische Daten] [John Davis] This paper examines the lack of health insurancecoverage in the US as a public policy issue. It first comparesthe problem of health insurance coverage to theproblem of unemployment to show that in terms of thenumbers of individuals affected lack of healthinsurance is a problem comparable in importance to theproblem of unemployment. Secondly, the paperdiscusses the methodology involved in measuring healthinsurance coverage, and argues that the current methodof estimation of the uninsured underestimates theextent that individuals go without health insurance. Third, the paper briefly introduces Amartya Sen'sfunctionings and capabilities framework to suggest away of representing the extent to which individualsare uninsured. Fourth, the paper sketches a means ofoperationalizing the Sen representation of theuninsured in terms of the disability-adjusted lifeyear (DALY) measure. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 health insurance coverage nationallicence unemployment nationallicence public policy nationallicence measurement of uninsurance nationallicence Sen nationallicence functionings and capabilities nationallicence DALYs nationallicence Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2000-03-01), 55-64 1065-3058 8:1<55 2000 8 10728 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009425908098 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009425908098 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Davis John Economics, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2000-03-01), 55-64 1065-3058 8:1<55 2000 8 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer