CAHI Updates Trends and Ends in State Mandates
February 2007
The Council for Affordable Health Insurance has updated its Trends & Ends paper to discuss the various types of new mandates being introduced in the states.
Mandated Benefit Definition Memo
Updated January 2007
Update: Answering your Questions About Health Savings Accounts
Updated January 2007
Update: HSAs, HRAs, FSAs: Which Consumer Driven Health Care Option Should You Choose?
Updated January 2007
CAHI Releases the 2007 State Legislators' Guide for Health Insurance Solutions
CAHI has released the guide for State Legislators in order for policy makers to learn why the cost of health insurance is rising and what can be done about it.
Destroying Insurance Markets: How Guaranteed Issue and Community Rating Destroyed the Individual Health Insurance Market in Eight States
The book, by Conrad F. Meier and co-published by the Council for Affordable Health Insurance and the Heartland Institute, analyzes how guaranteed issue and community rating caused individual health insurance market costs to sore and forced thousands of people out of the market, leaving them uninsured.
State Health Insurance Index 2006: A 50-State Comparison of the Nation’s Health Insurance Market
CAHI's latest publication provides a snapshot of the health insurance environment in each state.
State Health Insurance Index 2006: Methodology
The methodology includes a discussion of each Index component and how it was calculated
Year In Review - CAHI 2005 Annual Report
Congressional Activity Report 109th Congress
CAHI's web-based report that discusses some of the key pieces of legislation, which ones we supported or opposed, and where they stalled in the 109th Congress.
HSAs and the Chronically Ill: Smarter Patients and Better Care
The new paper evaluates how the chronically ill may find HSAs a
valuable new option.
What's Fair about Fair Share: Wal-Mart Bills Are Growing in Popularity and Intrusiveness
CAHI's new paper evaluates Fair Share legislation, which has been introduced in various forms in more than 30 states.
Massachusetts' Health Care Reform Plan: Too Many Sticks; Not Enough Carrots
The new paper evaluates the recent Massachusetts reform legislation and raises serious questions about its structure, costs and invasions of privacy.
CAHI Releases the 2007 State Legislators' Guide for Health Insurance Solutions
CAHI has released the guide for State Legislators in order for policy makers to learn why the cost of health insurance is rising and what can be done about it.
2006 State Legislators' Guide to Health Insurance Solutions
The Guide helps state legislators understand why health insurance premiums have been rising and provides solutions that would increase access to affordable health coverage.
Medicare's Hidden Administrative Costs: A Comparison of Medicare and the Private Sector
The paper, by Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., director of CAHI, looks at how Medicare calculates its administrative costs versus how the private sector administrative costs are tabulated.
Maine's Dirigo Health: A String of Broken Promises
The state of Maine has implemented Dirigo Health not only to increase health insurance access, but to decrease health care costs. CAHI's latest Issues & Answers evaluates Dirigo Health's goals, slow progress and high costs.
Trends in State Mandated Benefits, 2005
This short report identifies some of trends such as which state mandates are growing in popularity among state legislators and in which states.
CAHI’s 2004 Voters Guide
How did you congressman or senator do? Click here to find out!
Year In Review - CAHI 2004 Annual Report
HSAs: Need Only the Healthy and Wealthy Apply?
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) became available in January 2004 as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. Since its inception, there has been a groundswell of individuals attracted to HSAs, and by most accounts that interest will grow significantly in the next few years.
The Health Care Safety Net We Want and Need
The first in a new series which will demonstrate the public policy challenge facing the U.S. and its elected representatives of developing a safety net that will provide quality and timely care for those who need it most, and allow the market to work for everyone else.
2005 State Legislators' Guide to Health Insurance Solutions
What can states do to keep health insurance accessible and affordable? Are there ways to expand choice and availability of insurance plans? Our new guide to health insurance solutions has some answers. (A printed copy of this guide is available on a complimentary basis for state legislators and other elected officials. For your copy, please contact Tom Gardner, Director of Communications, at 703-836-6200, x386, or by email at tgardner@cahi.org.)
Kerry vs. Bush: The Future of Health Care Reform?
It’s a presidential election year again, and you know what that means: health care reform is back on the political agenda. Learn about Sen. Kerry and President Bush’s proposals on health care.
The Grand Illusion: The Perennial Quest for a Single-Payer Health Care System that Works
The first in a new series which will demonstrate the consistent failure of single-payer health care systems to deliver access to quality health care at lower costs.
Association Group Insurance and Association Health Plans: They Are Not the Same
CAHI's comparison clarifies the differences and similarities between the two association models.
A How-to Manual for Modernizing Medicare
Information on how to strengthen and modernize the
Medicare system.
Senior Century: A Legislators' Guide to Seniors' Health Care Issues
With the growing number of seniors in America and the related health care costs, lawmakers will soon face tough public policy challenges. CAHI's new legislators' guide - Senior Century - offers policies that legislators can enact now to give American seniors more control and financial independence.
HSAs, HRAs or FSAs: Which Consumer-Driven Health Care Option Should You Choose?
Our comparison chart will help you decide what's right for you.
Can Government Force People to Buy Insurance?
If state governments can't force all drivers to buy auto insurance, what makes lawmakers think the federal government can force all Americans to buy health insurance?
2004 State Legislators' Guide to Health Insurance Solutions
What can states do to keep health insurance accessible and affordable? Are there ways to expand choice and availability of insurance plans? Our new guide to health insurance solutions has some answers. (A printed copy of this guide is available on a complimentary basis for state legislators and other elected officials. For your copy, please contact Tom Gardner, Director of Communications, at 703-836-6200, x386, or by email at tgardner@cahi.org.)
An Affordable Way to Help the Uninsured
What's the best way to ensure that uninsured Americans can afford health insurance? Tax credits.
HSAs vs. HSSAs: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Will the latest consumer-directed health care proposals improve access to affordable health care? Yes and no.
Medicaid Reform: Ten Options for the States
State Medicaid budgets are strained to the breaking point. CAHI has ten options for reform.
2003 State Legislators Guide to Health Insurance
Have questions about what state legislators can do to make health insurance more affordable? Our new guide has answers.
