The Kaiser Project on Incremental Health Reform
In November 1996, the Kaiser Family Foundation initiated a project to examine different strategies for expanding health insurance coverage to America's growing uninsured population.
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The Difference Different Approaches Make: Comparing Proposals to Expand Health Insurance
ReportThe Difference Different Approaches Make: Comparing Proposals to Expand Health Insurance This paper estimates and compares the impacts of alternative mechanisms for expanding health insurance coverage. A variety of approaches-expansions of existing public programs, direct subsidies, and tax credits-and target populations-including children, poor adults, parents of Medicaid- or CHIP-covered children, and early retirees-are considered.
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Insurance Market Reforms and the Individual Insurance Marketplace: Implications for Coverage Expansions
ReportProposals that attempt to expand coverage in the private individual insurance market will only work if private insurance is available and affordable. This paper describes how the current individual marketplace will affect the ability of such proposals to assure equitable access to affordable coverage. This paper is part of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project.
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Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Report on a Policy Roundtable
ReportThis paper is a summary of a 1999 policy conference, The Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project, which highlighted both the policy and politics of incrementalism.
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Medicaid and Welfare Reform: States’ Use of the $500 Million Federal Fund
ReportThis report reviews how states have responded to the $500 million federal fund that was created by the federal welfare reform legislation in 1996 to help states maintain Medicaid coverage for individuals affected by welfare reform.
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The New Child Health Insurance Program: A Carefully Crafted Compromise
ReportThis paper explores the major policy compromises embodied in the CHIP program. It focuses on two areas: the relative control of the federal and state governments over the program, and the design of the program in relation to the private, employer-based health insurance market.This paper is part of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project.
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Extending Health Insurance Through Tax Credits
ReportPart of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project, this paper describes a generous tax credit approach to the expansion of health insurance coverage. The design features of refundable, publicly-financed tax credits for the purchase of health insurance are described for a range of sample plans.
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An Assessment of Strategies for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
ReportThis paper provides a conceptual analysis of alternative mechanisms (tax credits, public programs, and direct subsidies) for expanding health insurance coverage. The paper, which is part of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project, discusses the likely impacts alternative approaches on a variety of outcomes including efficiency in increasing coverage and integration with existing insurance systems.
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Subsidizing COBRA: An Option for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
ReportThis paper examines a method for making health insurance more affordable to people who may lose health insurance when they lose or change jobs.
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Expanding Health Insurance Through Tax Reform
ReportThis paper discusses the impacts of the Heritage Foundation proposal for expanding health insurance coverage. Under the proposed tax reform, the employer tax exclusion and all other deductions for health-related expenses would be repealed. A new refundable tax credit would be created for unreimbursed medical expenses.