Insurance Market Reform

This chart pack pulls together many of the major findings and analyses from recent state and national research efforts on Massachusetts health care spending.

In this paper, Georgetown University researchers discuss the phenomenon of employers increasingly turning to workplace wellness initiatives to curb rising health care costs and the growing prevalence of chronic conditions.

This fact sheet summarizes key provisions in the Affordable Care Act that may affect small businesses and their employees, and explains the law’s small business tax credits and the Small Business Health Options Program exchanges to be established in each state by 2014.

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Health Program compiled a report that presents state-level data on state and employee share of premiums for two common types of health insurance coverage (one low-cost plan and one comprehensive plan), to reflect the current diverse insurance market.

This ConsumersUnion brief discusses how actuarial value will be employed under the health reform law, the definitional and measurement issues associated with its use, and how to craft a measure that is usable by consumers.