New on the Web 76 (January 2011)
From the Bipartisan Policy Center: “Reforming the Health Policy Debate”
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “Debunking False Claims about Health Reform, Jobs, and the Deficit,” “Medicaid Block Grant or Funding Caps Would Shift Costs to States, Beneficiaries, and Providers”
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “Health Disparities and Inequalities Report—United States, 2011”
From Health Affairs: “Preventive Services without Cost Sharing”
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: “Holding Steady, Looking Ahead: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and CHIP, 2010-2011”
From the Kaiser Family Foundation: “Implementation Timeline,” “The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress”
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute: “Why the Individual Mandate Matters”
From the Small Business Majority: “Opinion Survey: Small Business Owners’ Views on Key Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”
From the Urban Institute: “Net Effects of the Affordable Care Act on State Budgets”
From the Bipartisan Policy Center:
Reforming the Health Policy Debate discusses the launch of the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization that aims to work directly with states to successfully implement the Affordable Care Act. The center is led by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist and former Governor Ted Strickland. (January 2011)
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Debunking False Claims about Health Reform, Jobs, and the Deficit addresses false claims made by opponents of reform, including claims that the law will add to the deficit and hurt the economy. The brief provides evidence that contradicts these claims. (January 2011)
Medicaid Block Grant or Funding Caps Would Shift Costs to States, Beneficiaries, and Providers explains that if Congress converted Medicaid into a block grant program, the federal government would pay only a fixed share of states’ Medicaid costs, and any amount above that would be shifted to the states. Policymakers who are concerned about federal Medicaid spending can take other, less damaging steps without resorting to a block grant structure. (January 2011)
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
Health Disparities and Inequalities Report—United States, 2011 presents several key findings, including that rates of preventable hospitalizations increase as income decreases, that lower-income residents report fewer healthy days than higher-income people, and that African Americans are far more likely to die from heart disease than whites. (January 2011)
From Health Affairs:
Preventive Services without Cost Sharing examines the importance of preventive services, the expansion of access to those services that is required by the Affordable Care Act, and the pros and cons of expanding access to screenings and other tests. The law not only protects preventive services in private insurance, but it also gives state Medicaid programs financial incentives to cover preventive services, and it eliminates cost-sharing for preventive services in Medicare. (December 2010)
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured:
Holding Steady, Looking Ahead: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and CHIP, 2010-2011 provides an overview of state actions during 2010, as well as the status of coverage as of January 1, 2011. (January 2011)
From the Kaiser Family Foundation:
Implementation Timeline is an online, interactive tool that explains how and when provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years. The provisions covered in the timeline span all areas of the health care system, including the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicaid, Medicare, minority health, the private insurance market, and long-term supports and services. (December 2010)
The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress is a series of charts that illustrate the results of a survey that gauges what the public views as the top priorities for officials in the coming year. The survey found that 61 percent of respondents believe that, given our economic situation, it is more important than ever to reform health care. (January 2011)
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute:
Why the Individual Mandate Matters compares estimates of what the cost of coverage for the nonelderly would be under the Affordable Care Act with and without the individual mandate. The findings include that the number of uninsured would be cut by more than half with the mandate and by only 20 percent without it, and that government funds that are used to reduce the number of uninsured would be used more efficiently under the mandate. (December 2010)
From the Small Business Majority:
Opinion Survey: Small Business Owners’ Views on Key Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act looks at how small business owners view the small business tax credits and health insurance exchanges. Roughly one-third of employers who don’t currently offer insurance said they would be more likely to do so because of the tax credits. However, less than 50 percent of respondents were familiar with either provision. (January 2011)
From the Urban Institute:
Net Effects of the Affordable Care Act on State Budgets analyzes provisions in the new law that could potentially put strain on state budgets and looks at ways that states can balance these costs with potential savings. (December 2010)
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