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May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.
May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
Consumers Union report explores responses to a new tax credit brochure in an effort to help consumers understand premium tax credits.
May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
A safe and healthy recess has the potential to drive better student behavior, health, and learning, according to a new study from Mathematica Policy Research and the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University.
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.
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, 2013 | Issue Brief
This brief offers promising tactics for community alliances to attract and retain employers as partners, both as purchasers and as channels for communicating with employees and their families.
April 18, 2013 | Issue Brief
A proposal to limit the ballooning costs of Medicaid would put a cap on the amount of federal spending per beneficiary. Critics contend that a per capita cap would shift costs to the states and thereby limit access to care.
April 4, 2013 | Issue Brief
Will employers move to self-funded health insurance because of provisions in the Affordable Care Act?
April 3, 2013 | Issue Brief
To spur more consumer choice in the insurance market, the Affordable Care Act created the Multi-State Plan Program to certify health insurance issuers to offer at least two plans in every state insurance exchange.
April 2, 2013 | Issue Brief
The 2014 Medicaid expansion will lessen the burden of medical expenses for many people, but the impact will vary by state.