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September 17, 2012
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Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
April 30, 2013
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RWJF solicited projects that focused on addressing specific aspects of the Affordable Care Act that present significant opportunities to expand coverage.
April 30, 2013
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Social Interest Solutions created a tool to help states complete a "gap analysis" revealing which existing software and hardware they could use to create a new health insurance exchange and which resources they lacked.
April 25, 2013
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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 25, 2013
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Researchers at the Hilltop Institute evaluated the implementation of Maryland’s tax-based outreach initiative, the Kids First Act, and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or CHIP.
March 14, 2013
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The California Center for Public Health Advocacy studied data on childhood obesity in the state to determine whether incidence of the condition had declined from 2005 to 2010, and whether any decline could be attributed to changes in policy.
January 9, 2013
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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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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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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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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.
September 17, 2012
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The FRESH-Thinking project at Stanford University, directed by Victor Fuchs and Ezekiel Emanuel, sponsored a series of meetings in 2007–10 that addressed policy options essential to all health reform proposals.
