Health Reform
Health reform involves extending insurance coverage and restructuring the health care delivery system to focus on prevention and primary care, reduce costs, and improve quality. Foundations are well positioned to help by educating consumers, supporting state implementation, transforming the safety net, expanding the health care workforce, and supporting innovations for high-cost patients.
In 2010 GIH established the GIH Health Reform Resource Center Fund. The fund allows GIH to increase staff resources and programming in order to inform and connect funders sponsoring work related to health reform, and to provide sound, strategic, and actionable information to funders in a timely fashion.
What's New
- The Massachusetts Health Care Delivery System Map
May 2013
As the Massachusetts health care delivery system works to implement national and state reforms, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has released a new online resource that brings greater transparency to the rapidly evolving delivery system – the Massachusetts Health Care Delivery System Map.
Learn More > - New Consumer-Tested Materials Help People Understand New Tax Credits
May 2013
Starting in 2014, many Americans will be eligible for significant, Affordable Care Act-mandated tax credits to help pay for their health insurance premiums. But today, consumers are largely unaware of whether they are eligible for a tax credit and how the new incentive will work. New consumer-tested materials clearly explain what Americans need to know about the new premium tax credit program, and can help raise awareness.
Learn More > - Updated Calculator Shows Subsidies Available in 2014
May 2013
With open enrollment for health insurance exchanges less than six months away, the Kaiser Family Foundation has updated its health reform subsidy calculator to illustrate how government subsidies, designed to help with the cost of insurance premiums, will work under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Spotlight on Health Reform
- Consumer Information and Assistance Efforts Gear Up as Public Remains Confused about The Affordable Care Act
May 2013
As government officials, community organizations and advocates gear up the consumer information and assistance efforts that will surround this fall’s open enrollment for the health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act(ACA), much of the public remains confused about the status of the health law, according to the April Kaiser Health Tracking Poll.
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Audioconferences
- Federally-Facilitated Health Insurance Marketplaces
May 2013 3:30 pm
Join this webinar to learn more about the Administrations current plans for the implementation of federally-facilitated health insurance marketplaces.
Learn More > - ACA Impact Survey
June 2013 3:00 pm
Learn More > - Consumer Assistance in the Health Insurance Marketplace
June 2013 1:00 pm
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Publications of Interest
- Nonprofit Competition in the Health Insurance Exchange: Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans
February 2013
By Jill Zorn, Senior Program Officer, Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
Learn More > - Innovations in Care for Chronically Ill Patients
December 2012
Caring for patients with one or more long-term health conditions is the bread and butter of our health care system; yet innovations in care for the chronically ill do not always receive the attention they deserve. In this Issue Focus, promising paths to care improvement, challenges, and areas for future exploration are discussed.
Learn More > - Reducing Hospital Readmissions: What Is at Stake and What Will it Take?
October 2012
With the view that many rehospitalizations could be averted through improvements in health care delivery, finding the path to reduce readmissions and capture the resulting savings has seized the imagination of many policy wonks and spurred attention, along with some action, on the front lines.
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