The health insurance plan of California: The first five years

Health Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 158-165

  Yegian, Jill Mathews ^a   Buchmueller, Thomas C ^b   Smith, Mark D ^a   Monroe, Ann F ^c  

^a California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Foundation's Quality Initiative ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INSURANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE POOLS; PRIVATIZATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0008033536     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.19.5.158     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. S. Russell, "New Health Plan for Small Firms," San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 1993.
2. For more on these components of A.B. 1672, see T.C. Buchmueller and G.A. Jensen, "Small Group Reform in a Competitive Managed Care Market: The Case of California, 1993 to 1995," Inquiry (Fall 1997): 249-263.
3. D. Lipson and J. de Sa, The Health Insurance Plan of California: First Year Results of a Purchasing Cooperative (Washington: Alpha Center, January 1995).
4. Details on this calculation can be found in J. Yegian et al., "Health Insurance Purchasing Alliances for Small Firms: Lessons from the California Experience" (Oakland: California Health-Care Foundation, May 1998), online at www.chcf.org.
5. S. Russell, "State Co-op for Insurance Is Proposed," San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1993.