Insurance Market Reform

The report highlights the effects that that the economic recession has had on employee health benefits.

The NAIFA survey found that 75 percent of insurance brokers have seen their fees decrease since the medical loss ratio took effect, more than half (57 percent) facing decreases over 25 percent.

Data from the Center for Studying Health Spending indicates that health care prices in March 2011 were 1.9 percent higher than in March 2010.

This issue brief explores whether the subsidies available through the Affordable Care Act are enough to make health insurance affordable for low-income families.

The law will allow the state's 48 nondesignated public hospitals (NDPHs) to raise $33 million in funds for the state's Medicaid program (MediCal) through intergovernmental transfers (IGTs).

The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight's draft report that will be sent to the Department of Health and Human Services making recommendations on how loans and grants should be made under the Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan program.

Two recent reports from the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown Health Policy Institute are questioning whether the pilot project on which Florida Medicaid reforms are based have produced the necessary efficiencies or cost reductions.   

The Florida House approved two Medicaid reform bills that would create three state-wide, managed-care programs.

North Carolina governor has signed legislation instituting taxes on providers that would bring in additional federal Medicaid funds.

A House Energy and Commerce Committee staff analysis on Early Retirement Reinsurance Program.