Insurance Market Reform
- 08/19/2011
According to a findings brief by Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization (HCFO), in 2008, approximately 7.4 million children in the United States received health insurance coverage through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
- 08/16/2011
This Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that monthly premiums per person ranged from $136 in Alabama to more than $400 in Vermont and Massachusetts, for a national average of $215.
- 08/16/2011
This report by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors states that more than one-tenth of health insurance agents reported that they have stopped selling and servicing health care policies for individuals, and nearly 30 percent foresee doing so in the future due to the medical loss ratio requirement in the health care reform law that limits how much insurance companies can spend on administrative expenses.
- 08/09/2011
In this brief sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the authors examine premium-contribution requirements for children's and family health insurance coverage through a combination of Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and employer-sponsored insurance in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Washington.
- 08/09/2011
The Georgia Health Policy Center released results from the 2011 Georgia Employer Survey showing that less than half of small firms (2 to 500 employees) in Georgia offer employer-sponsored coverage.