How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Affect Small, Medium, and Large Businesses?

Outlines how the 2010 healthcare reform's insurance mandates, state exchanges, and tax credits will affect businesses in each category and according to whether they currently offer insurance, including new options and financial obligations or assistance

How Will the PPACA Impact Individual and Small Group Premiums in the Short and Long Term?

Outlines the changes to non- and small group premiums to be implemented in 2010 and 2014 and their potential effects on out-of-pocket costs, pre-existing condition exclusions, and premiums, as well as determining factors such as provider payment rates

Multi-State Health Insurance Exchanges

Considers possible advantages of creating multi-state exchanges: administrative economies of scale, ability to serve multi-state metropolitan areas, pooling across state lines, and a critical mass of insured persons to establish stable risk pools

Massachusetts Health Reform: Solving the Long-Run Cost Problem

Outlines options for controlling the long-term costs of the state's universal health insurance, including managed competition, a new public insurance option, a semi-public agency to coordinate programs negotiating rates, and all-payer rate-setting

Targeting Subsidies: Employers Versus Individuals

Provides an overview of the debate over whether subsidies to employers or to individuals would increase health coverage more efficiently. Argues for targeting low-income individuals but with reforms to limit financial exposure to a percentage of income

Do Individual Mandates Matter?

Outlines the reasons why achieving universal health insurance coverage requires an individual mandate, and why individual mandate proposals must address the affordability of adequate coverage and develop fair and effective ways to enforce the mandate

Health Insurance Exchanges: Organizing Health Insurance Marketplaces to Promote Health Reform Goals

Examines whether and how the proposed health insurance exchange to organize an efficient marketplace would address problems individuals and employers face in buying insurance and thereby increase coverage. Considers lessons learned from earlier efforts

How Would States Be Affected By Health Reform?

Estimates for each state the number of uninsured who would become eligible for Medicaid under reform, those currently eligible who would enroll, those who would receive subsidies in insurance exchanges, and those who would be ineligible for assistance