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January 7, 2013 | Journal Article
In 2008 San Francisco implemented a pay-or-play employer mandate requiring city firms to provide health insurance coverage to employees. Their experience shows that such a mandate is feasible, increases access, and is acceptable to many employers.
March 19, 2012 | Program Result
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
February 23, 2012 | Journal Article
By measuring increased driving time to the nearest emergency department (ED), this study examines ED access and adverse patient outcomes or changes in patient health profiles. Using acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, the study looks at whet ...
November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Federally qualified health centers, community variation and prospects under reform.
October 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The great recession and passage of national health reform are together altering the calculus of employer approaches to offering health benefits, according to recent findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) visits to 12 nationally representative metropolitan communities.
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Closures of hospital trauma centers have accelerated since 2001 and may disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities.
September 1, 2011 | Report
Study examines how Massachusetts' 2006 health reform law has affected the health care arena in Boston.
July 6, 2011 | Issue Brief
In this paper, researchers address this question using a pay-or-play policy implemented in San Francisco in 2008 that requires employers to either provide health benefits or contribute to a public option health plan.
June 15, 2011 | Journal Article
Patients with time-sensitive conditions are adversely affected when the nearest emergency department is temporarily not available.
May 18, 2011 | Journal Article
This nationwide study analyzed market and hospital characteristics associated with the closure of emergency departments from 1990 to 2009. Emergency departments in safety-net and for-profit hospitals were less likely to remain open.