State and Federal Health Policy
According to an article released today in Health Affairs, adults with incomes between 100 and 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL)—i.e., “near-poor” adults—saw lower out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and a reduced likelihood of being uninsured in states that expanded Medicaid than in non-… Read more
Congress has still not fully reauthorized the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and states are working to figure out how to keep their kids covered. CHIP provides essential coverage for millions of our nation’s poorest children and should not be used as a bargaining tool in federal budget… Read more
SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett discusses Minnesota’s 1332 reinsurance waiver request and the federal response in a new post on the Health Affairs Blog.
The Highlights
Minnesota’s 1332 Waiver Request
Minnesota submitted a 1332 reinsurance waiver request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid… Read more
SHADAC will host a coffee-break webinar on December 5th at 12:00 p.m. Central featuring Urban Institute's Dr. Fred Blavin, whose SHARE-funded research asks how medical spending burdens for near-poor families in non-expansion states would change if the states were to expand… Read more
Dr. Sara McMenamin of University of California, San Diego, will present results from her SHARE-funded research at the 10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health.
Presentation At-a-Glance
Dr. McMenamin’s SHARE research examined state progress in implementing… Read more
Update September 15, 2017: On August 31, Oregon submitted a 1332 Waiver Application to seek pass-through funding for its reinsurance proposal. $90 million in annual state funding for reinsurance plan is paid for through a 0.3% assessment levied on major medical premiums and through excess… Read more
From the Desk of Lynn Blewett
Minnesota insurance companies filed their preliminary premium rates for plans sold on the individual health insurance market. The rate increases for 2018 are much lower than the rate increases seen last year when premiums increases were as high as 50 to 67 percent.… Read more
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On July 7, 2017, the U.S. Department of Human Services, along with the Department of the Treasury, approved Alaska's 1332 Waiver proposal seeking federal funding of its state-based reinsurance proposal. The state was awarded $48.3 million in… Read more
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A new brief from SHADAC examines Google Trends as a source of internet search data and provides an example of how researchers are using these data to study health policy under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) SHARE… Read more
This brief describes a rich source of internet search data--Google Trends--and provides an example of how researchers are using these data to study health policy.
Download a PDF of the brief.
Access additional content from the SHARE-funded research project led by Dr. Sarah Gollust and Dr.… Read more