VISIT STATE HEALTH COMPARE
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Tracking Reform at the State Level
Jul. 15, 2011 : July 15, 2011: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have far-reaching effects on health insurance coverage, health care financing, and delivery in the United States. Understanding the state-level implications of the ACA allows for better understanding of the national impact of the law and provides information to shape ongoing state implementation activities. This week... Read moreWest Virginia Expands CHIP Eligibility
Jul. 07, 2011 : July 7, 2011: Under new guidelines that took effect on July 1, 2011, children in families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) are now eligible for health insurance coverage through West Virginia’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This means that families earning up to $67,050 can enroll children for coverage. The previous CHIP income cap in... Read moreLynn Blewett: Minnesota State Government - Out of Service
Jul. 06, 2011 : From the desk of SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett Minnesota’s Republican-led Legislature and Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Governor Mark Dayton are still at an impasse, unable to come up with $1 billion to finance the state’s biennial budget. We are now in the sixth day of the government shutdown, and no one appears to be budging. The University of Minnesota’s operations have not... Read moreMACPAC Reports Publish State-level Data
Jun. 30, 2011 : June 30, 2011: Two newly released reports by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) feature state level data. Included are 21 data items such as CHIP spending, optional Medicaid benefits, enrollees, benefit spending, among others. SHADAC compiled a summary of state-level data and information released by MACPAC in the Medicaid and CHIP Program Statistics (... Read moreSHADAC Report: Significant Erosion in Employer-Sponsored Coverage
Jun. 28, 2011 : June 28, 2011: A new SHADAC report analyzes state-level trends in employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI). The report finds that the majority of non-elderly Americans continue to have health insurance coverage through an employer (whether as the policyholder or as a dependent), but the percentage of the population covered by ESI from 69 percent in 1999/2000 to 61 percent in 2008/... Read moreWhat is MAGI and Why Does It Matter?
Jun. 23, 2011 : June 23, 2011: The federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduces a new income definition—Modified Adjusted Gross Income or “MAGI”—for determining Medicaid income eligibility across the country. Today, rules for counting income for Medicaid vary from state to state, with some states allowing disregards and deductions that are not allowed in others. The... Read moreLynn Blewett: Missing the Point - More on the McKinsey Report
Jun. 21, 2011 : June 21, 2011: From the desk of SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett Facing mounting criticism of its recent findings about the future of employer-sponsored insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), McKinsey & Company has released the methods used in its survey of employers. Looking at the survey instrument and results, it's quickly clear that McKinsey skirted... Read morePages
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