Dr. Lynn A. Blewett This is Me

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1. 1. klmn269.exchangestudentblog.com

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   Published on: 8/29/2008   Last Visited: 8/30/2008

   "Programs like SCHIP and Medicaid are lifelines for providing Americans with the health care they need, especially during times when the economy is soft and more people feel vulnerable to losing employer-sponsored health insurance," said Lynn Blewett, of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota.

2. 2. SHADAC Staff Bios

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   Published on: 10/13/2005   Last Visited: 10/13/2005

   Led by principal investigators Lynn Blewett and Kathleen Call, SHADAC is staffed by a unique combination of experienced professionals in health care access research, survey design and state health policy.
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   Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D., Principal InvestigatorDr. Blewett is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health, at the University of Minnesota.Dr. Blewett has more than 15 years of research and health policy experience at both the state and national levels.She is the founding Director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC), a research and policy center that provides technical assistance to state analysts and policy makers across the country in the areas of survey design, data collection and policy development, as well as research on factors contributing to health care coverage and access in the United States.
   
   Blewett holds a Ph.D. in health services research, and her expertise is in health care access and applied policy research.She has been successful in the application of research in a policy analysis framework.From 1992-1998, she was the state Health Economist and Director of the Health Economics Program for the Minnesota Department of Health.During this period of health reform, she oversaw data collection, research, and applied policy analysis of changing trends in Minnesota's health care market and helped developed Minnesota's approach to monitoring the uninsured.

3. 3. Florida Forum for Progressive Policy

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   Published on: 8/14/2006   Last Visited: 4/28/2008

   It's fun to do one where there's a decrease, especially since it's dealing with kids," said Lynn Blewett, director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center in Minneapolis, which conducted the foundation's study.
   
   The percentage of uninsured children dropped 20.5 percent nationally and 13.3 percent in Florida, according to the study.The nation still has about 8 million uninsured children, however, including more than 600,000 in Florida.
   
   Blewett credited two government programs -- Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, authorized by Congress in 1997 -- for the improvement.
   
   During the same period in which Florida children covered by private insurance plans dropped 9 percent, the percentage of the state's children covered by public insurance increased 42 percent.
   
   "We're seeing a drop in employer-sponsored [health] insurance," Blewett said.