Reports & Analysis

This brief describes RAND's preliminary analysis of the impact of the ACA on Montana.

This brief describes RAND's preliminary analysis of the impact of the ACA on Illinois.

This brief describes RAND's preliminary analysis of the impact of the ACA on Connecticut.

This brief describes RAND's preliminary analysis of the impact of the ACA on California.

This brief highlights the importance of making health insurance choices understandable for consumers into a list of barriers, actionable solutions, and evidence gaps.

RAND researchers analyzed the possible impact the coverage provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) could have on health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Montana and Texas.

Georgetown University Health Policy Institute researchers examined three key areas of the Massachusetts and Utah exhanges: the quality and choice of plans, the affordabiltiy of coverage, and the ease of enrollment. The researchers gathered selected "lessons learned" from both exchanges.

The Hilltop Institute developed a financial modeling tool that was used to help the Maryland Health Care Reform Coordinating Council predict the costs and savings of implementing health reform. Hilltop utilized this tool to predict that implementing health reform will save the state $829 million.

In August 2010, a team of researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), as part of the Community Tracking Study (CTS), visited the Lansing metropolitan area to study how health care is organized, financed and delivered in that community.