Age Rating Under Comprehensive Health Care Reform
October 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief quantifies the impact of age rating and implications for coverage, costs and household financial burdens.
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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Beyond the $1.6 Trillion Sticker Shock
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Latest brief analyzes the 10-Year health reform plan.
Changes to the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Researchers from the Urban Institute explore possible changes to the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums as a potential source of financing for health reform.
Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs)
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 ...
Does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Permit the Purchase of Health Insurance Across State Lines?
August 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief examines new rules for allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines.
Emergency Department Visits in Massachusetts
September 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Survey shows users of emergency rooms have trouble accessing care in other settings, and frequent users of emergency rooms are a sicker, more disabled, and more chronically ill population than other adults in the state.
Employer-Sponsored Insurance Under Health Reform
January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Brief studies how health reform might affect employer-sponsored insurance.
Health Care Reform for Children with Public Coverage
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Analysis looks at implications of reform concepts for children and considers the potential risks of shifting children who currently have public coverage into plans sold in a new exchange.
Health Insurance Coverage of Young Adults
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.
Health Insurance Exchanges
April 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Researchers from the Urban Institute review some of the key problems facing purchasers of insurance—whether they be individuals or employers—and outline whether and how a public health insurance exchange might address them.