AcademyHealth Stateside - 05/28/2008  (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
 Only One Month Left to Register for SCI’s Summer Workshop for State Officials in San Francisco
 SCI’s Reinsurance Institute Issues Final Report
 Recent State Updates
 Minnesota Legislature Passes Historic Health Care Reform Legislation
 Maine Passes Funding Package for DirigoChoice Health Plan
 Enrollment in Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Program Exceeds Expectations
 California Consumer Groups, Regulators, and Government Officials Focus on Health Coverage Rescissions
 Register Now For State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting
 GAO Reports Highlight CMS Directive, Health Savings Accounts, and State Budgets
 Reports of Interest


Reports of Interest

The Politics of Health Reform: A Collection of Perspectives
Health Affairs
May/June 2008

Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Universal Coverage
Health Affairs
May/June 2008

Safety Net Hospital Emergency Departments: Creating Safety Valves for Non-Urgent Care
Center for Studying Health System Change
May 2008

The Individual Insurance Market: A Building Block for Health Care Reform?  Insights from HCFO Research Results
Changes in Healthcare Financing and Organization
May 2008

The North Dakota Experience: Achieving High-Performance Health Care Through Rural Innovation and Cooperation
The Commonwealth Fund
May 15, 2008

Performance Measures Using Electronic Health Records: Five Case Studies
The Commonwealth Fund
May 12, 2008

Identifying and Evaluating Equity Provisions in State Health Care Reform
The Commonwealth Fund
April 23, 2008

Lessons Learned: The Health Reform Debate of 1993-94
Alliance
for Health Reform
April 2008

Supporting the Patient Centered Medical Home in Medicaid and SCHIP: Savings and Reimbursement
National
Academy
for State Health Policy
April 2008

Reinsurance: A Primer
Families USA
April 2008

New Analysis Shows Effect of Rising Unemployment on Health Coverage, Medicaid, and SCHIP Spending and Enrollment
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
April 28, 2008

Employer Health Costs In a Global Economy
New America Foundation
May 2008

Understanding the Uninsured: Tailoring Policy Solutions for Different Subpopulations
National Institute for Healthcare Management
April 2008

Squeezed: How Costs for Insuring Families are Outpacing Income
State
Health Access Data Assistance Center
April 2008