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March 11, 2013 | Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act's consumer operated and oriented plans, CO-OPs, are supposed to increase competition in the health insurance market. However, they face major challenges as they prepare for open enrollment in October, 2013.
July 9, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
Health insurance exchanges offer states a number of options to drive quality improvement and delivery system reform.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
This brief, prepared by the Urban Institute on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines employment trends in Massachusetts as the state implemented health reform between 2006 and 2010.
April 30, 2013 | Program Result
Social Interest Solutions created a tool to help states complete a "gap analysis" revealing which existing software and hardware they could use to create a new health insurance exchange and which resources they lacked.
February 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Transparency about benefits and cost sharing, and uniform definitions and descriptions of design attributes—in plain English—will be necessary to support informed consumer decision-making.
January 9, 2013 | Program Result
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation analyzed the state's health insurance market to inform development of its health insurance exchange. The Vermont legislature adopted all of the recommendations in the law to establish the exchange.
December 18, 2012 | Program Result
The National Academy of Social Insurance assembled a panel of experts to develop model legislative language and issue briefs to help state policy-makers implement health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
February 19, 2013 | Story
Some states are declining to expand Medicaid and leaving insurance exchanges to the federal government.
January 1, 2013 | Toolkit
This checklist provides an outline for insurance regulators to ensure that issuers who seek to become quality health plan issuers are in compliance with Affordable Care Act requirements.
June 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Providing evidence of the possible gains under national health reform, Massachusetts' 2006 health reform initiative has improved health care access, use, affordability and quality.