April 25, 2013
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Program Result
From 2009 to 2011, the Rural Policy Research Institute examined the impact of health reform proposals and the Affordable Care Act on rural people, places, and providers, and gave policy-makers unbiased, nonpartisan analysis.
March 14, 2013
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Program Result
Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
January 9, 2013
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Program Result
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation analyzed the state's health insurance market to inform development of its health insurance exchange. The Vermont legislature adopted all of the recommendations in the law to establish the exchange.
December 18, 2012
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Program Result
The National Academy of Social Insurance assembled a panel of experts to develop model legislative language and issue briefs to help state policy-makers implement health insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
December 14, 2012
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Program Result
Researchers analyzed state legislation on childhood obesity for factors that predict enactment and to understand the relationship between enacted policies and obesity rates. They developed tools to help others analyze legislation.
October 29, 2012
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Program Result
From 2006 to 2010, AcademyHealth hosted health policy conferences, research meetings, and sessions on state-level research and policy to build and support the field of health services research and its application to health policy.
May 1, 2012
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Program Result
In 1997, researchers surveyed more than 22,000 public and private employers nationwide about the cost and benefits of the health insurance coverage they offered to workers and published findings in some 20 peer-reviewed articles.
February 1, 2012
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Program Result
RWJF has supported Health Affairs, a health policy journal, for 20 years.
October 4, 2011
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Program Result
The Center for Health Care Strategies helped states create long-term-care insurance partnership programs that provide affordable coverage and financial protection for beneficiaries, generate business for insurers, and protect Medicaid budgets.
July 7, 2011
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Program Result
The World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health met in New Orleans from November 18-20, 2007 to discuss how social factors - such as access to money, education and safe housing - impact people's overall health and longevity.
