Fact sheets, reports, and interactive maps describe state health reform initiatives aimed at expanding coverage, improving access and quality, and controlling costs and the potential impact of national health reform on the states.
Reports
State Medicaid Agencies Prepare for Health Care Reform While Continuing to Face Challenges from the Recession
This report, based on discussions with leading state Medicaid directors in May 2010, examines how Medicaid agencies are preparing for a lead role in implementing health reform while continuing to deal with the impact of the recession.
Optimizing Medicaid Enrollment: Spotlight on Technology
This series examines how selected states are using technology in innovative ways to streamline and simplify Medicaid enrollment.
Interactive Maps
States Moving Toward Comprehensive Health Care Reform
This interactive map tracks health care reform efforts in 15 states that have proposed or are implementing major health care reform initiatives.
New State Variation and Health Reform: A Chartbook
This chartbook and related interactive tables and maps present a variety of state-level economic and health care data that help illustrate the disparate impacts of potential health reform on the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
State Coverage Initiatives for Children
Over the past several years, many states have expanded coverage for children. This interactive map summarizes legislative activity in the states aimed at improving coverage for children.
Fact Sheets
Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus Program: Moving Forward on Health Reform Amid a Recession
This fact sheet provides an overview of Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus Program, which merged the state's three distinct Medicaid programs for children, parents and pregnant women into a single comprehensive health coverage program.
Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Three Years Later
This fact sheet provides a progress report two years since Massachusetts enacted landmark legislation to provide health care coverage to nearly all state residents.
Vermont Health Care Reform Plan
On May 25, 2006, Vermont Governor Jim Douglas signed into law comprehensive health care reform legislation. This fact sheet summarizes the key components of the legislation, including the coverage initiative, Catamount Health, and the Blueprint for Health, a plan for improving care for those with chronic conditions.
Healthy San Francisco
In 2007, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to begin implementation of a plan to provide health care services to all uninsured residents. This fact sheet describes the program and the legal issues raised by the employer pay or play requirement included in the plan.
