Library of Publications

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, the health care industry has produced a voluminous amount of information across a myriad of topics.  Below is a selection of publications that fall within Council priority areas we have found helpful and serve as recommended reading.

GENERAL:

• Urban Institute:  State Progress Toward Health Reform Implementation | January 2012
• Counsel of State Governments: FAQ: Implications of Health Reform on Justice-Involved Populations | March 2011
• Kaiser: Animated Video: “Health Reform Hits Main Street” | Fall 2010
• Urban Institute: How Would States be Affected by Health Reform? | January 2010

MEDICAID (AND EXCHANGES AS THEY PERTAIN TO MEDICAID):

• Kaiser:  Performing Under Pressure:  Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP | January 2012
• Kaiser:  Medicaid’s Role for Women Across the Lifespan:  Current Issues and the Impact of the ACA | January 2012
• Urban Institute:  What Directions for Public Health under the ACA? | November 2011
• Kaiser:  Connecting Eligible Immigrant Families to Health Coverage and Care: Key Lessons from Outreach and Enrollment Workers | October 2011
• Kaiser:  Explaining Health Reform:  The New Rules for Determining Income Under Medicaid in 2014 | June 2011
• Kaiser:  Ensuring Access to Care in Medicaid under Health Reform | May 2011
• Kaiser:  Physician Willingness and Resources to Serve More Medicaid Patients:  Perspectives from Primary Care Physicians | April 2011
• Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC):  Report to Congress | March 2011
• Urban Institute and RWJF: Health Reform Across the States: Increased Insurance Coverage and Federal Spending on the Exchanges and Medicaid | March 2011
• Health Affairs: How Changes in Eligibility May Move Millions Back and Forth Between Medicaid and Insurance Exchanges | February 2011
• Kaiser: State Medicaid Agencies Prepare for Health Care Reform While Continuing to Face Challenges from the Recession | August 2010
• Kaiser: Expanding Medicaid to Low-Income Childless Adults Under Health Reform | July 2010
• Kaiser: Medicaid Coverage and Spending in Health Reform | May 2010

HEALTH CENTERS:

• Kaiser: Community Health Centers: Opportunities and Challenges of Health Reform | August 2010
• Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation:  Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers Through Health Reform | June 2010
• Commonwealth Fund:  Enhancing the Capacity of Community Health Centers to Achieve High Performance | May 2010
• New England Journal of Medicine:  Health Care Reform and Primary Care — The Growing Importance of the Community Health Center | April 2010

REMAINING UNINSURED:

• Kaiser:  The Uninsured, A Primer: Key Facts about Americans Without Health Insurance | October 2011
• RWJF: Who Will be Uninsured After Health Insurance Reform? | March 2011