August 29, 2008
State Health Care Reform:
Retargeting Medicaid Hospital Payments to Expand Health Insurance Coverage
By Christopher J. Meyer
(Backgrounder #2177)
State officials must decide whether to use existing government health care funding to help individuals and families buy health insurance or continue funneling taxpayer dollars ...
July 28, 2008
State Health Care Reform: A Brief Guide to Risk Adjustment in Consumer-Driven Health Insurance Markets
By Edmund F. Haislmaier
(Backgrounder #2166)
Risk adjustment addresses the concern that health plans that do a better job of managing care for sicker patients would be disadvantaged because they would ...
July 2, 2008
Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Medicaid Waiver Renewal Will Set a Precedent
By Greg D’Angelo and Edmund F. Haislmaier
(WebMemo #1979)
As the Medicaid waiver for Massachusetts's health care reform is up for debate again, federal and state officials should remember the intent of the original ...
April 23, 2008
State Health Reform: Six Key Tests
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1900)
State legislators are increasingly focused on health care reform. Escalating health care costs, state deficits, rising numbers of uninsured, and federal inaction have forced them ...
April 23, 2008
Health Care Reform: Design Principles for a Patient-Centered, Consumer-Based Market
By Edmund F. Haislmaier
(Backgrounder #2128)
The foundational insight behind consumer-centered health care reform is that the only way to achieve better value is to make the consumer (and patient) the ...
September 21, 2007
The Massachusetts Health Reform: Assessing Its Significance and Progress
By Edmund F. Haislmaier
(Heritage Lecture #1044)
Massachusetts has committed to restructuring its health system around the principle that individual consumers, not employers or government, should be the key decision-makers and owners ...
July 30, 2007
State Health Reform: How to Fund a Statewide Health Insurance Exchange
By Greg D'Angelo and Edmund F. Haislmaier
(WebMemo #1573)
The five core financial components of a state health insurance exchange.
July 23, 2007
State Health Reform: How Pooling Arrangements Can Increase Small-Business Coverage
By Edmund F. Haislmaier
(WebMemo #1563)
By combining sound program design with other market-based reforms, state policymakers can create pooling arrangements that increase the number of insured workers and improve the ...
June 20, 2007
State-Based Health Reform: A Comparison of Health Insurance Exchanges and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1515)
State officials should take the best features of the FEHBP and apply them to their own health insurance markets. A health insurance exchange accomplishes this. ...
April 4, 2007
The Massachusetts Health Plan: An Update and Lessons for Other States
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1414)
New estimates show that competition will help Massachusetts residents save on health coverage. Other states would do well to learn from Massachusetts's experience.
March 1, 2007
The Health Insurance Exchange: Enabling Freedom of Conscience in Health Care
By Connie Marshner
(WebMemo #1377)
State-level health insurance exchanges present a promising opportunity to offer greater freedom of choice and freedom of conscience.
January 22, 2007
The Schwarzenegger Health Plan: A Great Leap Forward for Bigger Government
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., and Nina Owcharenko
(WebMemo #1317)
The Governor's proposed health plan is a mélange of bad health policy, unwise tax increases, and missed opportunities.
July 18, 2006
The Massachusetts Health Plan: Lessons for the States
By Nina Owcharenko and Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1953)
Several features of the Massachusetts health plan could empower individuals to buy and own their own health insurance policies and take these policies with them ...
May 15, 2006
Doing It Right: The District of Columbia Health Insurance Market Reform
By Lawrence H. Mirel and Edmund F. Haislmaier
(Heritage Lecture #936)
Under the proposed D.C. Equal Access to Health Insurance Act, all of the incentives in the system would be aligned to put the needs of ...
April 20, 2006
Understanding Key Parts of the Massachusetts Health Plan
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., and Nina Owcharenko
(WebMemo #1045)
Clear explanation answers many criticisms of the Massachusetts plan.
April 13, 2006
Health Policy in Maryland and Massachusetts: A Study in Contrasts
By Regina E. Herzlinger
(WebMemo #1037)
"Fair Share" is not the right way to address the problem of the uninsured.
April 11, 2006
The Significance of Massachusetts Health Reform
By Edmund F. Haislmaier
(WebMemo #1035)
Last week the Massachusetts legislature passed comprehensive health care reform legislation almost a year after Governor Romney first proposed the key elements of a reform ...
September 19, 2005
Command and Control: Maine's Dirigo Health Care Program
By Tarren Bragdon
(Backgrounder #1878)
Effective health care reform should be based on the principle that personal decisions are best left up to individuals and their doctors, not government officials, ...
December 16, 2002
How States Can Expand Private Coverage with HIFA Waivers
By Nina Owcharenko
(Executive Memorandum #846)
The Administration's HIFA initiative gives states the flexibility to expand coverage to the uninsured by integrating private coverage with traditional Medicaid and SCHIP. Building on ...
March 6, 2002
Maryland's Health Care Mandate Policy
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(Testimony )
The question is how Maryland can do better; how specifically to expand coverage, open up the markets, allow more genuine competition, how to promote more ...
April 7, 2000
Lessons From Tennessee's Failed Health Care Reform
By Merrill Matthews, Jr.
(Backgrounder #1357)
Instead of reducing the number of uninsured, the state-level "reform" efforts have increased costs, and these cost increases have contributed to rising numbers of uninsured. ...
March 3, 2000
Why the Texas HMO Liability Law Is Not a Proven Model for Congress
By James Frogue
(Executive Memorandum #658)
Because the Texas law is so young, it is still too early for any determination to be made about its success or failure.
April 16, 1998
Building Bureaucracy and Invading Patient Privacy: Maryland's Health Care Regulations
By Dale Snyder
(Backgrounder #1168)
Building Bureaucracy and Invading Patient Privacy: Maryland's Health Care Regulations
June 11, 1997
The Rise and Repeal of the Washington State Health Plan: Lessons For America's State Legislators
By Robert Cihak, M.D., Bob Williams, and Peter J. Ferrara
(Backgrounder #1121)
BG1121: The Rise and Repeal of the Washington State Health Plan: Lessons For America's State Legislators
June 6, 1997
The Kentucky Health Care Experiment: How "Managed Competition" Clamps Down on Choice and Competition
By Rachel McCubbin
(Backgrounder #1119)
BG1119/S: The Kentucky Healthcare Experiment: How "Managed Competition" Clamps Down on Choice and Competition
June 13, 1995
Lessons on Reforming Health Care at the State Level: Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington State
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Charles Baker, Dr. Ken Heithoff, and Phil Dyer
(Heritage Lecture #548)
HL548: Lessons on Reforming Health Care at the State Level: Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Washington State
January 26, 1994
California's Single-Payer Health Care Initiative: A Costly Bait and Switch
By John C. Liu and David H. Winston
(Backgrounder #1007)
BG1007: California's Single-Payer Health Care Initiative: A Costly Bait and Switch
June 17, 1992
Why the Maryland Consumer Choice Health Plan Could Be a Model for Health Care Reform
By Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #902)
BG902: Why the Maryland Consumer Choice Health Plan Could Be a Model for Health Care Reform
May 27, 1992
How the Maryland Health Plan is a Model for the Nation
By Carl J. Sardegna
(Heritage Lecture #392)
HL392: How the Maryland Health Plan is a Model for the Nation
