Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform, Implementation, and Post-Reform Priorities

Presents survey results on healthcare experts' views on the comprehensive health reform law enacted in March 2010, including premium subsidies, new insurance market rules, and alternative payment methods; implementation challenges; and long-term issues

Setting a National Minimum Standard for Health Benefits: How Do State Benefit Mandates Compare With Benefits in Large-Group Plans?

Based on a comparison between states' minimum health benefit mandates and those for federal employees, considers whether a proposed federal standard would require more or less generous coverage than is state-mandated

Realizing Health Reform's Potential: How the Affordable Care Act Will Strengthen Primary Care and Benefit Patients, Providers, and Payers

Examines issues in primary care and outlines the 2010 healthcare reform law's provisions to strengthen it, including temporary hikes in Medicare and Medicaid payments and support for innovations in care delivery and primary care workforce development

Finding Resources for Health Reform and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve

Examines policy options for slowing healthcare spending growth, improving outcomes, and financing comprehensive reform, including changes to Medicare Advantage and hospital pay-for-performance. Compares their estimated budget impact over ten years

Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform and the Role of States

Presents findings of a survey of experts about the relative authority of states and the federal government over the individual mandate, health insurance exchanges, provider payment methods, and other reform provisions and barriers to implementation

The North Dakota Experience: Achieving High-Performance Health Care Through Rural Innovation and Cooperation

Explores how North Dakota has met the healthcare challenges of rural communities with support for primary care and the idea of a medical home, organization of care through coordination and cooperation networks, and the innovative use of technology

The Health Insurance Provisions of the 2009 Congressional Health Reform Bills: Implications for Coverage, Affordability, and Costs

Analyzes the House and Senate healthcare reform bills for the number of people likely to gain coverage and the implications for federal financing, families' insurance premium and out-of-pocket costs, employers, and the potential for price competition

Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance

Analyzes the fragmentation of the healthcare delivery system and makes policy recommendations -- including payment reform, regulatory changes, and infrastructure -- for creating mechanisms to coordinate care across providers and settings

Starting on the Path to a High Performance Health System: Analysis of Health System Reform Provisions of Reform Bills in the House of Representatives and Senate

Compares the reform bills' reform provisions, with a focus on closing the coverage gap by creating an insurance exchange of public and private plans, strengthening Medicare, and expanding Medicaid. Examines implications for the budget and coverage rates

How Health Care Reform Can Lower the Costs of Insurance Administration

Examines the sources of U.S. insurance administration costs and estimates potential cost savings from the creation of a national insurance exchange to replace the individual and small-group markets as part of a public-private approach to reform