The Urban Institute produces a series of quick-strike issue briefs on health care coverage and quality issues in the United States. Browse the series below.
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May 31, 2013 | Issue Brief
A new study from the Urban Institute and Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute - Center on Health Insurance Reforms looks at how the ACA might affect the number of people self-employed in the U.S.
May 7, 2013 | Issue Brief
A modest reduction in the tax exclusion of employer sponsored health benefits can reduce the deficit and create a more equitable distribution of this tax subsidy.
March 25, 2013 | Issue Brief
Under the ACA many uninsured veterans and their spouses would be eligible for insurance coverage.
March 19, 2013 | Issue Brief
This report looks at whether hospitals stand to gain more revenue under the ACA's Medicaid expansion compared with if no states expand Medicaid eligibility.
March 7, 2013 | Issue Brief
This report concludes that a package of reasonable policy changes can save Medicare and produce budget savings.
March 4, 2013 | Issue Brief
The impact of a much-discussed Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that aims to limit variation in the amount of health care premiums charged to older adults compared to younger ones is explored in this brief.
January 16, 2013 | Issue Brief
The analysis focuses in on medically inappropriate and unnecessary services that drive up spending without making making patients better.
December 3, 2012 | Report
The report presents the most up-to-date estimates available on Medicaid/CHIP participation rates, and examines how participation, eligibility, and rates of being insured have changed among children between 2008 and 2010 and examines participation rates among parents.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
There is little question that the ACA will improve the nongroup and small group insurance markets for everyone in them, including the high-risk population. Yet insurance market reforms, guided by requirements for EHBs, AVs, and other tools provided by the ACA, are and will remain a work in progress.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
To lessen the damage done by churning, it will be important for states to provide consumers with intensive assistance to help them navigate through the involuntary coverage transitions.