The Urban Institute produces a series of quick-strike issue briefs on health care coverage and quality issues in the United States. Browse the series below.
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March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
A new analysis from the Urban Institute concludes that these provisions are likely to achieve only partial success.
June 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
An Urban Institute analysis looks at why young adults, accounting for 28 percent of America's uninsured population, are disproportionately uninsured and what policies could address their coverage gaps.
May 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Urban Institute offers five-part strategy for reaching the eligible uninsured.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Report provides state-by-state look at those who will still be without health coverage.
December 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Report studies what health reform might look like without the individual mandate.
June 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
The health reform law would mean a small increase in state spending on Medicaid through 2019 but would allow states to reduce current spending in several areas.
August 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
How elements of the nation's largest employer-sponsored health plan might serve as a model for reform.
January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Only 440,000 kids who are currently eligible for public insurance might be covered privately if their parents received government support to pay a share of their employer-sponsored insurance premiums.
August 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This report provides a preliminary look at prospects for the ACA’s Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs)—nonprofit, member-governed insurance plans. The Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed rules for this loan program an ...
June 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Report finds that ACA will likely help reverse these trends due largely to the introduction of the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) and reforms to health insurance markets.