Using the COMPARE microsimulation model, estimates proposed health care reform legislation's effects on the number of uninsured, the costs to the federal government and the nation, revenues from penalty payments, and consumers' health care spending.
Using the COMPARE microsimulation model, estimates the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) on the number of uninsured, the costs to the federal government and the nation, and consumers' health care spending.
Cost savings can be achieved while improving health care quality by speeding payment reforms, implementing insurance reforms, and reforming coverage.
Using the COMPARE (Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts) microsimulation model, this study evaluated how the recently enacted health reform law performed compared with alternative designs on measures of effectiveness and efficiency and found that only a few different approaches would cover more individuals at a lower cost to the government; however, these appeared politically untenable because they included substantially higher penalties, lower subsidies, or less generous Medicaid expansion.
Compares how two health care reform bills, HR. 3962 and H.R. 3590, passed by the U.S. House and Senate, respectively, in late 2009 compare on a variety of projections made using the RAND COMPARE microsimulation model.
The nature of employer-sponsored coverage may change substantially after implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with an increase in the number of workers offered coverage through the health insurance exchanges.
The RAND Corporation's Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts microsimulation model predicts that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will increase insurance offer rates among small businesses. By 2016, offer rates would increase from 53 to 77 percent for firms with ten or fewer workers, from 71 to 90 percent for firms with 11 to 25 workers, and from 90 percent to nearly 100 percent for firms with 26 to 100 workers.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will introduce new health insurance options. To prevent changes in current coverage, PPACA exempts existing plans from some regulations, a policy known as “grandfathering.” While grandfathering in the small group market may lead to slightly higher premiums in state insurance exchanges, it is also associated with higher employer-sponsored insurance enrollment and lower government spending.
Finds that the Affordable Care Act will increase the percentage of employers that offer health coverage to workers: from 57 percent to 80 percent for firms with 50 or fewer workers, and from 90 percent to 98 percent for firms with 51 to 100 workers.
This article discusses the range of health information technology initiatives included in the 2009 economic stimulus legislation that collectively are known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) initiative; these include proposed regulations on "meaningful use" of information technology and standards; funding of regional extension centers; and support for the development and use of clinical registries and linked health outcomes research networks.
