Health Reform Analysis
Around the country, efforts are underway to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Yet, many Americans are unclear about what the individual reforms mean, and more importantly, how the new benefits and provisions of reform will impact them. RWJF's new series of animated educational videos tackle five common terms of ACA implementation:
Prepared by Health Affairs, this series provides clear, accessible overviews of timely and important health policy topics. The briefs are geared to policy-makers, congressional staffers, and others who need short, jargon-free explanations of health policy basics.
The Urban Institute produces a series of "quick strike" issue briefs analyzing health reform implementation issues relating to health insurance coverage and cost in the United States.
The Urban Institute is undertaking a comprehensive monitoring and tracking project to analyze trends across 10 diverse states, providing insight into key health reform implementation issues that states nationwide are facing. The case study states analyzed in these reports are Alabama, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Virginia.
State Refor(u)m is a user-generated online resource to assist states as they tackle the implementation challenges and opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Join the community of nearly 7,000 health reform stakeholders, ask questions, access health reform implementation documents, and follow implementation progress state-by-state nationwide.
This Health Reform Toolkit Series provides an in-depth look at Massachusetts’ experience implementing state-based health reform and provides timely insight for others nationwide. The five-part series includes toolkits on: building an effective exchange website, implementing a public education campaign, determining health benefit designs to be offered, mitigating risk, and outreach and enrollment to those newly eligible.
Health Reform GPS is a comprehensive Web portal providing analysis of ACA implementation, including:
(1) Health Reform Implementation Briefs;
(2) Ongoing, daily scans of all developments related to the ACA, including a chronicle of its key implementation milestones, as well as congressional developments; and
(3) Links to third-party resource documents.