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Center for Retirement Research [CRR] at Boston College
Apr. 26, 2016
"[S]everal states ... are setting up their own plans for uncovered workers. These state initiatives could potentially be enhanced by the federal Saver's Credit, an existing tax incentive that could, in essence, provide a match on contributions to a state plan. But the current credit is limited and not refundable; proposed legislation would extend the credit and make it refundable. This brief, using Connecticut as an example, examines the effectiveness of the current Saver's Credit and the proposed changes."
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State Coverage Initiatives
Mar. 10, 2006
Excerpt: NMSCI is a priority because it is a unique public–private partnership that provides affordable health insurance products for small employers who have previously been unable to afford coverage for their employees.
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Families USA
May 7, 2007
42 pages. Excerpt: This proposal addresses the problems of the uninsured, the underinsured and the high cost of health care to individuals and businesses in Colorado.
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State Coverage Initiatives
Nov. 15, 2006
14 pages. Excerpt: [ERISA] complicates state efforts to include employer financing in initiatives to expand access to health care. This issue brief discusses implications of the recent court decision holding that ERISA preempts one such law, the Maryland Fair Share Health Care Fund Act.
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State Coverage Initiative and AcademyHealth
Jan. 19, 2006
48 pages. Excerpt: The State Coverage Initiative's (SCI) annual State of the States report summarizes state activities to expand health coverage throughout the past year. It also takes into account the environment and context within which states are working. This 2005 report is, unfortunately, not much different from that of last year. Times are still diffi cult for states and for coverage in general.
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State Coverage Initiatives
Mar. 4, 2008
62 pages. Excerpt: State approaches to reform vary considerably, often depending on the political and fiscal environment; demographic characteristics, insurance market dynamics, and other economic variables also impact a state's capacity to act. Yet almost universally, states are considering health care reform in a very pragmatic way.
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Deborah Chollet, Ph.D. for State Coverage Initiatives
Oct. 14, 2004
Excerpt: Over the past several decades, many states have sought to stabilize health insurance markets and to expand coverage by developing reinsurance programs, which assume a portion of insurers' high-cost claims. In the 1980s, some states sponsored these programs in an effort to reduce steep premium increases for small employers with high claims experience. By the early 1990s state reinsurance programs to support the small-group market generally had ended[.]
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State Coverage Initiatives
Jan. 19, 2005
Excerpt: The Healthy New York ... Program is a state-subsidized reinsurance mechanism that reimburses health plans for 90 percent of claims paid between $5,000 and $75,000 on behalf of a member in a calendar year. When the program was inaugurated in January 2001, the risk-sharing corridor was between $30,000 and $100,000; however, it was lowered in July 2003 due to lower-than-expected claims activity. To reflect this change, most plans reduced their premiums by approximately 17 percent.
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State Coverage Initiatives
May 29, 2008
18 pages. Excerpt: An overall conclusion is that reinsurance is not cost-effective if intended solely to increase coverage, unless it follows Healthy NY and targets the subsidy only to the previously uninsured. However, participating states' modeling requests clearly reflected other goals, which included solidifying existing coverage and addressing risk segmentation. Greater clarity about the importance of other goals is needed in order to more rigorously assess benefits and costs of reinsurance.
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State Coverage Initiatives
Oct. 11, 2005
Excerpt: SCI talks with Sonia Chambers, chair of the West Virginia Health Care Authority, and Sally Richardson, executive director of the Institute for Health Policy Research at West Virginia University, about the West Virginia Small Business Plan.
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