Affordable Care Act
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Buying Health Insurance in Illinois: The Other Item on Your New Year Wish List
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The Executive Director of GetCoveredIllinois, the state-federal partnership health insurance marketplace in Illinois, discusses the marketplace’s recent launch and what is next.
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Left Out: Women’s Life Changes Put Their Access to Health Insurance at Risk
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Instability in low-income women’s life events corresponds to an increased reliance on public health insurance systems.
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Sewing Up the Hole in the Safety Net: Hope for the Hard-To-Reach Homeless Through Medicaid Expansion
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A study of Massachusetts’ Medicaid expansion shows a significant increase in Medicaid enrollment among the homeless seeking substance abuse treatment.
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Death by Insurance: Disparities in Healthcare Outcomes Based on Payment Methods
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Researchers find a link between health outcomes and the type of insurance used by patients being treated for similar medical conditions at the same hospitals.
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Churning through Children’s Health: Improving Continuity of Medicaid Coverage
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Researchers evaluate how implementation of continuous-eligibility enrollment policies affects the average length of children’s enrollment in the Medicaid program.
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No Longer Locked In
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The ACA weakens the link between employers and access to health insurance. What will the labor market implications be?
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A Flood of Newly Insured Patients: How Will States, Providers, and Health Systems Respond?
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The Urban Institute investigates the ability of health care providers to manage changes from the Affordable Care Act.
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Suicide Prevention: A Policy Solution?
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An examination of state insurance laws shows that mental health insurance coverage has a significant impact on suicide rates.
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Will Pay-for-Performance Pay for Itself?
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New study evaluates the effect of state implementation of Pay-For-Performance on nursing home care.
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Poverty, Depression, and Motherhood: An Unhealthy Combination
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Recent analysis of national survey data highlights important statistics concerning prevalence of and treatment for major depression among low-income mothers with young children.
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor… But Tell Them to get Healthcare in Canada
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There are disparities in healthcare utilization rates between the US and Canada for disadvantaged subgroups.