A progress report on state health access reform

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  McDonough, John E ^a   Miller, Michael ^a   Barber, Christine ^a  

^a Health Care for All ^*

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; POLITICS; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41749101114     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.w105     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. J.E. McDonough et al., "The Third Wave of Massachusetts Health Care Access Reform," Health Affairs 25 (2006): w420-w431 (published online 14 September 2006; 10.1377/hlthaff.25.w420);
2. and Vermont Agency of Administration, "Vermont's Health Care Reform of 2006," http:// hcr.vermont.gov (accessed 7 October 2007).
3. D.M. Fox and J.K. Iglehart, eds., Five States That Could Not Wait: Lessons for Health Reform from Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, and Vermont (New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 1994);
4. and P.A. Paul-Shaheen, "The States and Health Care Reform: The Road Traveled and Lessons Learned from Seven That Took the Lead," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23, no. 2 (1998): 319-361.
5. National sources: (1) Families USA, State Expansions Resource Center: Families USA, a national health care advocacy organization, has numerous reports on recent state activity in health care reform. (2) Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Kaiser Network: the Kaiser Family Foundation develops reports on state Medicaid activity. In addition, the Kaiser Network (http://kaisernetwork. org) tracks news of health care across the states. (3) Georgetown Center on Children and Families: as part of the Georgetown Health Policy Institute, the Center on Children and Families has numerous reports on children's coverage through Medicaid and SCHIP. Especially useful to this paper were Center on Children and Families, "Children's Health Coverage: States Moving Forward," May 2007, https://gushare.georgetown.edu/HealthPolicyInstitute/ CCF/Web%20Site/SCHIP%20Site%20Documents%20%28Public%29/StatesMovingForward.pdf (accessed 8 January 2008);
6. and "Children's Health Coverage: States Moving Forward Update," 20 July 2007, https://gushare.georgetown.edu/HealthPolicyInstitute/CCF/ Web%20Site/SCHIP%20Site%20Documents%20%28Public%29/Research/smfupdate%20final. pdf (accessed 8 January 2008).
7. MedicaidWatch: as part of the Title II Community AIDS National Network (TIICANN) in Washington, D.C., MedicaidWatch tracks changes in state Medicaid policies in a newsletter each month to advocates. (5) National Governors Association: the NGA Center for Best Practices collects information on health reform initiatives across the states. Most helpful in our data collection was a recent report: NGA Center for Best Practices, "Leading the Way: State Health Reform Initiatives," Issue Brief, July 2007, http://www.nga.org/ Files/pdf/0707HEALTHREFORM.PDF (accessed 20 September 2007). (6) State Coverage Initiatives: a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SCI works with state governments to enact health reformand compiles information on health reforms in each state.
8. New York's expansion was denied a federal waiver. As of this writing, the issue of using SCHIP funding to cover children in families higher up the income scale remains unresolved.
9. See letter from Dennis Smith, Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to State Health Officials (SHO #07-001), (17 August 2007), http://www.cms.hhs.gov/smdl/ downloads/SHO081707.pdf (accessed 2 January 2008).
10. Kaiser Network State Watch, "Pennsylvania Governor's Health Care Cost-Containment Strategies Face Resistance From Hospitals, Physicians, Health Insurers, Small Businesses," Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 10 July 2007, http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=3&DR_ID= 46118 (accessed 15 October 2007).
11. Kaiser Network State Watch, "Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas Consider Health Care Proposals," Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 27 August 2007, http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint= 3&DR_ID=47134 (accessed 15 October 2007).
12. McDonough et al., "The Third Wave of Massachusetts Health Care Access Reform."
13. See A.S. Yelowitz, "Pay-or-Play Health Insurance Mandates: Lessons from California," October 2006, http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/cep/ EP_1006AYEP.pdf (accessed 10 December 2007).
14. See the Kaiser Family Foundation's Health08.org, http://www.health08.org, for an overview of each of the presidential candidates' health platforms.
15. R.E. Moffit, "The Rationale for a Statewide Health Insurance Exchange," WebMemo no. 1230, 5 October 2006, http://www.heritage.org/ Research/HealthCare/wm1230.cfm (accessed 30 October 2007).