Utah’s Exchange Shifts Cost to Families

Editor’s Note: Just over a year ago, CCF and our colleagues at Georgetown’s Center for Health Insurance Reforms released a paper examining the health insurance exchanges operating in Utah and Massachusetts.  We concluded that they should not be viewed as ideological “bookends” but rather as entities with different goals that had taken different steps to attract […]

Medicaid Coverage for Parents under the Affordable Care Act

This issue brief presents national estimates of the number and characteristics of uninsured parents who would be eligible for Medicaid in 2014 according to whether they have child who is currently enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP coverage or an uninsured child who is eligible for Medicaid/CHIP but not enrolled. State-specific data are also provided on the ten […]

A Focus on Children and Youth in the Nuts and Bolts of an Exchange

By Mike Odeh, Children Now School might be out for summer – but not for California’s Health Benefit Exchange board! The board has scheduled at least two full meetings in June, and is absorbing a small encyclopedia’s worth of reports. These extensive analyses touch on some of the many important “nuts and bolts” decisions that […]

New Study Finds Massachusetts Health Reform is Good for Kids

By Tara Mancini Massachusetts’ 2006 health reform law is frequently a topic of research and debate.  However, few studies have specifically focused on how children have fared as a result of the reform. That is until this recent study published in the American Economic Review that focuses solely on children under 18 and the impact that […]

IRS Releases Final Premium Tax Credit Rule

By Martha Heberlein The final premium tax credit rule was published in the Federal Register on May 23rd. The rule, which describes eligibility for the health insurance premium tax credits, pretty much finalized what was proposed back in August. (For a summary on the math behind the calculations, check out HealthReformGPS.) However, there are a few interesting things […]