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Using Payroll Deduction to Shelter Individual Health Insurance from Income Tax

February 1, 2011 | Journal Article

This article examines the use of "Section 125" cafeteria plans offered by employers to shelter individual health insurance premiums from income tax.

Comparing Errors in Medicaid Reporting across Surveys

April 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Surveys of Medicaid insurance coverage vary in design and accuracy

Regulating the Medical Loss Ratio

March 1, 2011 | Journal Article

The impact of medical loss ratio regulations on the individual health insurance market could be large and vary dramatically across states.

State Insurance Exchanges Face Challenges In Offering Standardized Choices Alongside Innovative Value-Based Insurance

February 4, 2013 | Journal Article

Transparency about benefits and cost sharing, and uniform definitions and descriptions of design attributes—in plain English—will be necessary to support informed consumer decision-making.

Consequences of SCHIP Expansions for Household Well-Being

August 1, 2010 | Journal Article

SCHIP improves the material well-being of the low-income families it intends to assist.

Choice, Numeracy and Physicians-in-Training Performance

July 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Most Medicare Part D markets offer more than 50 prescription plans. This study investigated whether physicians have numeracy skills adequate to choose the most beneficial plans.

Health Care Cost Growth Among the Privately Insured

September 1, 2009 | Journal Article

In this study, the authors examined spending growth among the privately insured between 2001 and 2006, separating the contributions of price changes from those driven by consumption.

Measuring Adequacy of Coverage for the Privately Insured

April 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article examines the adequacy of private insurance for adults and children. In response to increasing costs, private insurance programs have increased cost-sharing for their members, but little is known about changes to out-of-pocket spending at the national level.

Expanding Dependent Coverage for Young Adults

February 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The experience that states have had with pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance expansion to young adults shows the process is non-problematic, but there are undetermined implications for risk pooling, cost distribution, and prolonging the parental ...

Model Safety-Net Programs Could Care for the Uninsured at One-Half the Cost of Medicaid or Private Insurance

September 8, 2011 | Journal Article

Because the reforms under the Affordable Care Act of 2010 will leave an estimated 20 million or more people still uninsured, some Americans will continue to seek care at low or no cost through existing safety-net systems.