Insurance Market Reform

This brief provides a summary of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) Initiative's meeting discussion among expert researchers, policymakers, insurers, actuaries, and analysts focused on insurance pricing in the individual and small group markets once the health reform law is fully implemented.

A longitudinal study of heath care consumers that aims to  provide a comprehensive view of health care consumerism that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of what health and health care are commonly thought to encompass.

According to the State Health Access Data Assitance Center at the University of Minnesota, employer sponsored coverage has significantly declined over the last ten years.

According to the Urban Institute report, the ACA has the potential to reverse the significant decline in employer sponsored coverage that has occured over the last ten years

Senate Bill 89 would require health plans to cover preventive services without charging co-payments, co-insurance or deductibles.