SCI -- State Implementation of National Health Reform: Harnessing Federal Resources to Meet State Policy Goals

The report identifies and documents policy options in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and synthesizes the details of federal reform into several broad themes:

• Maximizing residents’ health coverage and access to care;
• Helping health care and coverage function more like a traditional, healthy market;
• Holding insurers accountable for providing high-quality coverage at reasonable cost to the consumer;
• Reforming the health care delivery system to slow cost growth while improving quality; and
• Limiting state general fund spending on health care.