State strategies to expand health insurance coverage: trends and lessons for policymakers
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Burton, Alice, author Friedenzohn, Isabel, author Martinez-Vidal, Enrique, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body. Commonwealth Fund. Commission on a High Performance Health System, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, January 2007
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Reform -- economics Insurance Coverage -- economics Insurance, Health -- economics United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The latest round of state-level reforms, most of them enacted or proposed in 2006, has presented a variety of approaches to covering the uninsured, including new mechanisms to subsidize coverage for low-income families, new variations on employer and personal responsibility for health insurance coverage, and new strategies to facilitate the purchase of insurance for small businesses and for individuals without access to employer-sponsored insurance. The boldest state-level efforts aim at comprehensive (near-universal) coverage, while others focus on incremental approaches such as providing coverage for children or public-private partnerships to insure low income workers. National solutions are unlikely to emerge in the foreseeable future, but the concept of federally supported state experimentation is being seen as a promising way to make progress.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vii, 27 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101309684 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101309684