... into the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment had grown to 75.5 million people (CMS 2020a ). Some of the factors that help explain Medicaid's astounding upward trajectory apply to health insurance generally: population growth, rising medical care costs, technology and practice advances, utilization changes...

...Jan M. Ambrose; Anne Carroll In response to recent and past medical malpractice insurance crises, most states have implemented reforms meant to stabilize premiums and coverage availability. The importance of understanding whether these reforms implicitly affect the behavior and incentives...

...Thomas Bodenheimer; Kevin Grumbach In a society with strong antitax sentiment and large government deficits, the enactment of universal health insurance is blocked by an impasse over financing. The two chief mechanisms for funding universal health insurance are taxes and insurance premiums. Taxes...

...Joseph White Abstract Conventional wisdom says that the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is “regressive and therefore unfair.” Yet, by the standard definition of regressive tax policy, the conventional view is almost certainly false. It confuses the absolute size...

...Kelsey N. Berry; Haiden A. Huskamp; Howard H. Goldman; Lainie Rutkow; Colleen L. Barry Abstract Over the past twenty-five years, thirty-seven states and the US Congress have passed mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) parity laws to secure nondiscriminatory insurance coverage for MH...

...Walter McClure Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Position Paper An Incentive Tax for Medicare, Medicaid and National Health Insurance Walter McClure, In terStudv . The present financing of Medicare and Medicaid...

...Dorothy Robyn; Jack Hadley This article considers a number of issues which might arise in formulating policy for new health occupations. Its particular focus is on nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants and their treatment under potential national health insurance arrangements...

...Robert Thomas Kudrle Although foreign experience with public medical insurance has played an important role in U.S. policy debates, little attention has been paid to foreign dental benefits. This article examines principally the experience of four countries: New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden...

...William E. Steslicke This article first reviews the history of Japanese social policy in the post-World War II period, and then focuses specifically on the policy and politics of national health insurance. It describes the roles and motivations of the primary participants in the formulation...

...Jacqueline Wallen; Sherman R. Williams Employer-based health insurance (insurance that is purchased by employers for their employees and financed through employer or joint employer-employee contributions) is currently subsidized in part by the federal government through tax exclusions for employer...

...Thomas G. McGuire; John T. Montgomery Eleven states mandate coverage of inpatient and outpatient mental health care in private health insurance. Health insurers have objected to these laws on the grounds that they interfere with consumer choice of health insurance benefits and are too costly...

.... Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Capital Cost Reimbursement to Community Hospitals under Federal Health Insurance Programs Eleanor D. Kinney, American Hospital Association, and Bonnie Lef kowitz, Department of Health and Human...

...Peter Temin Milton Silverman, Philip R. Lee, and Mia Lydecker, Pills and the Public Purse: The Routes to National Drug Insurance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 232 pp., $15.95 hardbound Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press...

... Administration, Duke University 1979 Rationales for Public Health Insurance Coverage of Geriatric Day Care: Issues, Options, and Impacts William G. Weissert, National Center for Health Services Research Abstract. America’s long-term care system has been widely criticized...

... will cripple the state and federal budgets and slow economic growth in other sectors in the years to come. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and insurer formation of narrow provider networks are two oft-discussed policies to reduce costs, with both having been implemented to some degree in practice...

...Glenn Beamer Sardell Alice . Insuring Children's Health: Contentious Politics and Public Policy . Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2014 . 183 pp. $52.50 cloth. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Sandwiched between the political debacle of President Bill Clinton's...

.../Publications/Issue%20Brief/2010/Sep/Small%20Business/1437_Collins_realizing_hlt_reform_potential_small_business_ACA_ib.pdf (accessed September 30, 2010) . Congressional Budget Office . 2009a . An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . November...

...Brendan Saloner; Norman Daniels In this essay we argue that the concept of affordable health insurance is rooted in a social obligation to protect fair equality of opportunity. Specifically, health insurance plays a limited but significant role in protecting opportunity in two ways: it helps keep...

...Peter Muennig; Bhaven Sampat; Nicholas Tilipman; Lawrence D. Brown; Sherry A. Glied The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), or ACA, requires that U.S. citizens either purchase health insurance or pay a fine. To offset the financial burden for lower-income households...

...Carole Roan Gresenz; Miriam J. Laugesen; Ambeshie Yesus; José J. Escarce Affordability is integral to the success of health care reforms aimed at ensuring universal access to health insurance coverage, and affordability determinations have major policy and practical consequences. This article...