Presentation by Stan Dorn to Maryland's Health Care Reform Coordinating Council at August 31, 2010, "Entry to Coverage" workshop.  Mr. Dorn cites lessons learned from enrollment initiatives in Massachusetts and Louisiana, including the importance of prioritizing affordability and reducing administrative requirements for enrollment.

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Johnson PJ, Blewett LA, Davern M. 2010. "Disparities in Public Use Data Availability for Race, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups: National Surveys for Healthcare Disparities Research."  Medical Care 48(12):1122-1127.

SHADAC Issue Brief #23 presents key implementation and data considerations for states as they contemplate the creation and role of health insurance exchanges.  Establishing health insurance exchanges is integral to implementing reforms under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Exchanges are government-regulated insurance marketplaces designed to increase access to and facilitate purchase of affordable health insurance for certain subpopulations, including individuals (non-group market) and small businesses (small group market)

This brief also profiles four state exchanges launched under state health reform efforts that predated the ACA: Massachusetts Health Connector, Utah Health Exchange, Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) Health Connections, and Washington Health Insurance Partnership (HIP).

Presentation by Lynn Blewett at the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) Annual State Health Policy Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 5, 2010.  This work includes preliminary estimates of the number of low-income non-elderly adults who will be excluded from Medicaid because of their immigration status and describes characteristics of these excluded immigrant adults.
 

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This report uses data from the 2008 American Community Survey to showcase significant variations in health insurance status, both within and across states by age, race/ethnicity and family income. Nationally, older children were more likely to be uninsured, white children were much more likely than non-white or Hispanic children to be insured, and children in the lowest income group were significantly more likely to be uninsured. Yet these patterns did not hold true for all states, even after controlling for employment status, industry and education level of parents.