Strategic Planning & Timelines

The ACA provides for additional means of expanding coverage beyond expanding Medicaid and establishing exchanges, including allowing states to run a so-called Basic Health Program beginning in 2014. This policy brief explores the issues surrounding the Basic Health Program and outlines options for states.

New data show states’ tax collections grew for the 10th straight quarter through mid-2012. However, growth rates in state tax revenues have slowed, and state revenues are still lower in nominal and real terms than they were in 2008.

The U.S. Census Bureau announced that in 2011 the number of people without health insurance coverage declined from 50.0 million in 2010 to 48.6 million in 2011, as did the percentage without coverage - from 16.3 percent in 2010 to 15.7 percent in 2011.

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health coverage, including premiums, employee contributions, cost-sharing provisions, and other relevant information.

This is the sixth state-specific report, in a series of ten, from the Urban Institute to track and monitor the implementation process and effects of the ACA. This reports look at the progress underway in Minnesota.