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May 2, 2013 | Issue Brief
States are allowed under the Affordable Care Act to customize their own health insurance plans to meet a required 10 categories of “essential health benefits.” While states like the flexible approach, patient advocates prefer a national standard.
May 1, 2012 | Report
This paper funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and authored by a joint team from Georgetown University's Health Policy institute and the National Academy of Social Insurance, provides insight for state and federal officials considering how they will assume responsibility for managing health plans once health insurance exchanges are established.
February 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
In this report, researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examined Massachusetts' CommCare program—a program serving low-income adults, much like the ACA's BHP is designed to do.
October 5, 2012 | Presentation Material
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides subsidized coverage options for individuals up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). States are responsible in large part for implementing the coverage expansions, and the ACA provides states the o ...
November 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Researchers evaluate New Mexico’s State Coverage Insurance (SCI) program, a public/private partnership that provides access to subsidized health insurance for adults living below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
February 1, 2011 | Report
Report highlights early achievements in implementing the Affordable Care Act.
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
An expert panel expressed divergent opinions about what constitutes affordability of health insurance premiums under the ACA.
May 1, 2012 | Program Result
In 1997, researchers surveyed more than 22,000 public and private employers nationwide about the cost and benefits of the health insurance coverage they offered to workers and published findings in some 20 peer-reviewed articles.
April 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
This issue brief investigates existing state-level dependent coverage expansion programs and explores how the impact of measures undertaken by states might differ from the impact of the federal dependent coverage expansion.
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
This issue brief from Urban Institute examines various pathways through which individuals could gain coverage because of the health reform proposals that have passed the Senate and the House of Representatives.