Context
The healthcare tab currently focuses on ACA, Medicaid/CHIP, and Medicare program targets. It does not yet include the broader health coverage universe that explains what people have when they are not in those programs.
Missing coverage-universe targets include uninsured, employer-sponsored insurance, direct-purchase/private coverage, and related mutually-exclusive or overlapping coverage categories.
Goal
Add coverage-universe targets/diagnostics so healthcare release comparisons can distinguish program-specific misses from overall health insurance coverage composition misses.
Suggested implementation
- Inventory available source support, likely from CPS/ACS/Census or other health insurance coverage tables already flowing through Ledger/Populace.
- Decide whether targets should be person-level annual coverage, interview/current coverage, or both, matching PolicyEngine-US variable semantics.
- Add target roles for feasible concepts, such as:
- uninsured
- employer-sponsored insurance
- direct-purchase/private coverage
- Marketplace vs non-Marketplace direct purchase where source support allows
- Add diagnostics for category overlap/mutual-exclusivity so totals are interpretable.
Acceptance criteria
- Release artifacts expose coverage-universe target availability and source semantics.
- Tests cover mapping to the intended PolicyEngine-US variables or explicitly document formula/source ownership boundaries.
- Healthcare diagnostics can show whether program-target errors are accompanied by broad coverage-composition errors.
- Missing categories are recorded as unavailable or deferred rather than silently absent.
Context
The healthcare tab currently focuses on ACA, Medicaid/CHIP, and Medicare program targets. It does not yet include the broader health coverage universe that explains what people have when they are not in those programs.
Missing coverage-universe targets include uninsured, employer-sponsored insurance, direct-purchase/private coverage, and related mutually-exclusive or overlapping coverage categories.
Goal
Add coverage-universe targets/diagnostics so healthcare release comparisons can distinguish program-specific misses from overall health insurance coverage composition misses.
Suggested implementation
Acceptance criteria