This brief summarizes key findings of the Narrative Communications Project sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This communications capacity-building grant project aimed to help state-based advocates build consensus more effectively and promote children's health insurance...

Local communities tend to find it easier to expand care than to extend coverage. To study this issue, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded projects in 14 communities to expand health coverage and improve care for their uninsured residents. This study of seven Communities in Charge sites...

Examines the relationship between rising Medicare risk and Medicare+Choice enrollment and the claims experience reported by Medigap insurers between 1996 and 1999. Concludes that adverse selection into Medicare HMOs has probably reduced average medical claims in standard Medigap plans, with a...

Describes the Medigap market in 1999, both nationally and by state, and compares the national profile in 1999 with that in 1997 to show how the market is changing. Notes that one third of all Medigap policies were pre-standard in 1999, and standard forms F, C, and B accounted for 48 percent of...

This issue brief describes the Healthy Indiana Plan, an affordable health care coverage expansion for low-income, working-age adults. It compares the program to similar efforts in other states and assesses early experiences with enrollment and cost-sharing.

This issue brief summarizes findings from a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), on behalf of the National Institute for Health Care Reform, to evaluate how health care is organized, financed, and delivered in the Detroit metropolitan area.

This report provides state-level data on annual and quarterly enrollment in SCHIP and Medicaid, from fiscal years 1998 through 2001. It augments the 39;47 annual reports on SCHIP enrollment trends by (1) using information on program characteristics to analyze differences in state enrollment...

Mathematica evaluated five health care reform proposals for the state of Washington in 2008. The proposals featured, respectively: reduced regulation in the current market; Massachusetts-style insurance reforms with a health insurance connector; a health partnership program similar to the...

This article considers the effect of changing household wealth on changes in utilization.