Federal Reform

This brief discusses the issues that states will face in making decisions about how to structure health insurance exchanges and health insurance markets.
 

The report outlines both the potential benefits of BHP and possible pitfalls—it is a must-read for states considering a BHP.

The National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) has created a new state legislators' check list for health reform implementation.

The KFF report outlines how advanced payment for health insurance subsidies will work under the ACA and examines issues related to potential tax liability for individuals whose income might change during the year.

A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis on the potential costs and savings that the ACA could generate for state budgets that are currently in a shortfall after the recession.

Alain Enthoven writes in an article for Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy about the state health insurance exchanges.

This issue brief provides an overview of strategies used to identify uninsured children who are eligible for public insurance programs.

This report estimates how the Affordable Care Act would affect employer-sponsored insurance and employer health care costs.

This package of tables considers interactions between four different provisions of government support for health care that exist under the new health reform law: Medicare, Medicaid, Insurance Subsidies offered through the Exchange, and Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI).