Posts Tagged ‘Affordability’
How Choices In Exchange Design For States Could Affect Insurance Premiums And Levels Of Coverage [Small Business Insurance Exchanges]
The Affordable Care Act gives states the option to create health insurance exchanges from which individuals and small employers can purchase health insurance. States have considerable flexibility in how they design and implement these exchanges. We analyze several key design options being considered, using the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model: creating separate versus ...
The Financial Burden From Prescription Drugs Has Declined Recently For The Nonelderly, Although It Is Still High For Many [Prescription Drugs]
Prescription drug spending and pharmacy benefit design have changed greatly over the past decade. However, little is known about the financial impact these changes have had on consumers. We examined ten years of nationally representative data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and describe trends in two measures of financial burden for prescription drugs: out-of-pocket ...
Massachusetts Health Reforms: Uninsurance Remains Low, Self-Reported Health Status Improves As State Prepares To Tackle Costs [Web First]
The Massachusetts health reform initiative enacted into law in 2006 continued to fare well in 2010, with uninsurance rates remaining quite low and employer-sponsored insurance still strong. Access to health care also remained strong, and first-time reductions in emergency department visits and hospital inpatient stays suggested improvements in the effectiveness of health care delivery in ...
Massachusetts Health Reforms: Uninsurance Remains Low, Self-Reported Health Status Improves As State Prepares To Tackle Costs [Web First]
The Massachusetts health reform initiative enacted into law in 2006 continued to fare well in 2010, with uninsurance rates remaining quite low and employer-sponsored insurance still strong. Access to health care also remained strong, and first-time reductions in emergency department visits and hospital inpatient stays suggested improvements in the effectiveness of health care delivery in ...
Massachusetts and Hawaii Offer the Most Cost-Effective Health Insurance Coverage
By Al Lewis What makes a state’s health insurance successful for its citizens? It should be affordable, it should cover a lot of people, and it should manage its members well, keeping people healthy as measured both by preventive care as well as actual health outcomes. It turns out that, using those criteria, the ...
Massachusetts and Hawaii Offer the Most Cost-Effective Health Insurance Coverage
By Al Lewis What makes a state’s health insurance successful for its citizens? It should be affordable, it should cover a lot of people, and it should manage its members well, keeping people healthy as measured both by preventive care as well as actual health outcomes. It turns out that, using those criteria, the ...
Affordable Care Act Reforms Could Reduce The Number Of Underinsured US Adults By 70 Percent [Health Reform Impact]
To provide a baseline and assess the potential of changes brought about under the Affordable Care Act, this study estimates the number of US adults who were underinsured or uninsured in 2010. Using indicators of medical cost exposure relative to income, we find that 44 percent (81 million) of adults ages 19–64 were either uninsured or underinsured ...
