Implementing the Affordable Care Act is posing complex challenges for some states, while others view the ACA as providing a timeline for changes they were already planning. Learn how Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon, and Maryland are making progress, and view other resources for states.
Although ACA implementation efforts are already under way, many Americans are still unclear about what the individual reforms mean—and more importantly, how the reforms will impact them. RWJF's video series clarifies some common terms of ACA implementation.
In 2014, it’s estimated that 12 million Americans—most with federal subsidies—will access their health coverage through exchanges. By 2019, that number is expected to grow to 28 million. This report explores three ways that states can comply with the Affordable Care Act requirement of establishing health insurance exchanges.
A number of provisions in 2010’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) directly address the goal of reducing disparities in health and health care among minority populations. Increasing access to health coverage will have a significant effect. More than half of the 46 million people who are currently uninsured are minorities.
How will the reforms of the Affordable Care Act affect the health care safety net? As the ACA takes shape, it will place new and different pressures on health care institutions that provide free or low-cost care. RWJF Scholars chart opportunities and problems, and pose solutions for protecting the health care institutions that serve the most vulnerable.
The ACA requires nonprofit hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments and create implementation strategies to address those needs. This issue brief describes how several hospitals have collaborated with local community or health agencies to improve health in their communities.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), when fully implemented, will expand the number of people with health coverage, introduce strategies for improving the quality of health care, and support plans to make our communities healthier places.
For those reasons, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has committed significant resources to help nonprofit organizations, states, communities, and the private sector realize the full potential of the law.
Stay up to date on progress with reports from the Urban Institute, which is undertaking a comprehensive monitoring and tracking project to examine the implementation process and effects of the ACA in 10 states.
States are facing difficult implementation decisions regarding the Medicaid expansion under the ACA. This report serves as a guide for states considering their own expansion analysis.
Visit the reportFind the latest developments, implementation briefs, and a glossary of terms at the Health Reform GPS site, a project of the George Washington University Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program and RWJF.
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To successfully implement health reform, states will need to develop information technology (IT) systems that securely provide consumers with answers about their eligibility for public health insurance benefits or tax subsidies, and enhance their ability to enroll in health insurance coverage.
Read the reportThese issue briefs examine how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is likely to affect different groups of Americans.
The approximately 15.1 million uninsured adults who could gain coverage under the ACA Medicaid expansion are a diverse group in terms of their age and race/ethnicity.
This report is the first-ever to provide estimates of uninsurance among veterans and their families both nationally and at the state level, and to assess the potential for the ACA to reduce their uninsurance rates.
Implementation of the ACA would result in the greatest gains of coverage among residents in regions with the lowest coverage rates in 2010—the South and the West of the United States.
Some physicians will benefit financially as coverage expands, and some will be unaffected, but virtually none will be disadvantaged.
Researchers examined whether health reform in Massachusetts led to job loss, and found no indication of negative economic consequences relative to other states.