Implementing National Health Reform: A Five-Part Strategy for Reaching the Eligible Uninsured

Recommends outreach strategies for Medicaid and subsidies, including identifying the eligible through tax forms, partnering with states to give hands-on assistance, designing consumer-friendly enrollment systems, and maximizing interagency coordination

Capping the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Is Equity Feasible?

Explores the feasibility of capping tax exemptions on premiums paid for employer-sponsored insurance without creating inequities by firm size, employees' age, and type of coverage -- by taxing benefits based on actuarial value or adjusting premiums

The Basic Health Program Option Under Federal Health Reform: Issues for Consumers and States

Outlines states' option to cover adults with incomes of 133-200 percent of the federal poverty level and legal immigrants ineligible for Medicaid by contracting with health plans or providers. Examines federal payments depending on premiums in exchanges

Towards Incremental Progress: Key Facts About Groups of Uninsured

Provides key statistics and identifies crucial policy design questions for eight distinct groups of uninsured who could potentially become the subject of incremental health reform

Uninsured and Dying Because of It: Updating the Institute of Medicine Analysis on the Impact of Uninsurance on Mortality

The absence of health insurance creates a range of consequences, including lower quality of life, increased morbidity and mortality, and higher financial burdens. This paper focuses on just one aspect of this harm-namely, greater risk of death-and seeks to illustrate its general order of magnitude. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated that 18,000 Americans died in 2000 because they were uninsured. Since then, the number of uninsured has grown. Based on the IOM's methodology and subsequent Census Bureau estimates of insurance coverage, 137,000 people died from 2000 through 2006 because they lacked health insurance, including 22,000 people in 2006

Express Lane Eligibility and Beyond: How Automated Enrollment Can Help Eligible Children Receive Medicaid and CHIP

Explores how new options for automated strategies could help identify uninsured children, determine their eligibility for Children's Health Insurance Programs or Medicaid, and enroll and retain them to increase enrollment while lowering operating costs