Publications
Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured and What Government Can Do, New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, June 2006.
Reinsurance: How States Can Make Health Coverage More Affordable for Employers and Workers. Publication Number 820, New York: The Commonwealth Fund, July 2005.
“Insurance Market Reform: When, How, and Why?” in Alan Monheit and Joel Cantor (editors): State Health Insurance Market Reform: A Dialogue Between Policymakers and Researchers, New York: Routledge Press, September 2004.
“Covering the Uninsured,” Harvard Magazine, May/June 2004, pp. 36-38.
“Sharing High Risks: How Government Can Make Health Insurance Markets More Efficient and More Affordable,” Chapter 5 in The Economics of Risk, edited by D. J. Meyer, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, December 2003.
“Reinsuring Risk to Increase Access to Health Insurance,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2003, pp.283-287.
“Government as Reinsurer for Very-High-Cost Persons in Nongroup Health Insurance Markets,” Health Affairs – Web Exclusive, 23 October 2002, pp. W380-382, available at: www.healthaffairs.org/WebExclusives/Swartz_Perspective_Web_Excl_102302.htm .
“Justifying Government as the Backstop in Health Insurance Markets,” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol.2, No.1 (Fall 2001), pp.89-108.
Healthy New York: Making Insurance More Affordable for Low-Income Workers, Commonwealth Fund Report 484, November 2001.
"Family Income and Crowd Out Among Children Enrolled in Massachuetts' Children's Medical Security Plan," E. Feinberg, K. Swartz, A. Zaslavsky, J. Gardner, and D.K. Walker, Health Services Research (forthcoming).
"Markets for Individual Health Insurance: Can We Make Them Work with Incentives to Purchase Insurance?", Inquiry, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 133-145.
"Health Insurance Coverage of People in the Ten Years Before Medicare Eligibility," K. Swartz and B. Stevenson, in P.P. Budetti, R.V. Burkhauser, J.M. Gregory, and H.A. Hunt (editors) Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2001.
"Adverse Selection and Price Sensitivity When Low-Income People Have Subsidies to Purchase Health Insurance in the Private Market," K. Swartz and D.W. Garnick, Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 45-60.
"Lessons from New Jersey's Creation of a Market for Individual Health Insurance," K. Swartz and D.W. Garnick, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February 2000), pp. 45-70.
"Meeting Information Needs: Lessons Learned from New Jersey's Individual Health Insurance Reform Program," D.W. Garnick and K. Swartz, Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 56, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 456-470.
"The Death of Managed Care As We Know It," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 24, No. 5 (October 1999), pp. 1201-1205.
"Can Adverse Selection Be Avoided in a Market for Individual Health Insurance?" K. Swartz and D.W. Garnick, Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 56, No. 3 (September 1999), pp. 373-388.
"Hidden Assets: New Jersey's Reform of the Market for Individual Health Insurance," K. Swartz and D.W. Garnick, Health Affairs, Vol 18, No. 4 (July/August 1999), pp. 180-187.