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Reports and Legislation

• Putting Reform into Medicaid and Medicaid into Reform: A Two-Way Street - Presentation from Cindy Mann, director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations, 4/8/10
  
  
• HCR Implementation: Timeline for Health Insurance Provisions - Released 4/1/10 by The Commonwealth Fund
  
  
• HCR Implementation: Timeline for System and Delivery Reform Provisions - Released 4/1/10 by The Commonwealth Fund
  
  
• HCR Implementation: Timeline for Revenue Provisions - Released 4/1/10 by The Commonwealth Fund
  
  
• Health Reform Implementation Timeline - Released 3/26/10 by the Kaiser Family Foundation
  
  
• Health Care Visual Interpretation - Released 3/26/10 by the Montgomery Advertiser
  
  
• Comparison of major health care reform proposals - Updated 3/19/10 by the Kaiser Family Foundation
  
  
• Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 4872 - Legislative language outlining the Reconciliation Act of 2010 released 3/18/10
  
  
• Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 4872 - Prepared by the Committees on Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce, and Education & Labor, March 18, 2010
  
  
• Direct Spending and Revenue Effects for House Bill H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010 - Released by the Congressional Budget Office 3/18/10
  
  
• Direct Spending and Revenue Effects for the Senate Health Care Reform Bill - Released by the Congressional Budget Office 3/11/10
  
  
• Letter from President Obama to Congressional Leaders about his Health Care Reform Proposal - Released by the White House 3/2/10
  
  
• Health Care Reform Proposal from President Obama - Released 2/22/10
  
  
• Budget Reconciliation: A Toolkit - Explains briefly how reconciliation works and offers links to resources from the Alliance on Health Reform
  
  
• Americans are Divided about Health Reform Proposals Overall, but become More Supportive When Told about Key Provisions - published 1/2010 by the Kaiser Family Foundation
  
  
  

Articles

• States Face Medicaid Expansion Challenge - POLITICO, 10/5/10
  
  
• Health Industry Bolts Dems for GOP - POLITICO, 10/4/10
  
  
• Win or Lose, Republicans to Target New Health-Care Law after November Elections - The Washington Post, 10/3/10
  
  
• Patients' Choices may Narrow as Insurers Adjust Standards for Healthcare Providers - The Los Angeles Times, 9/30/10
  
  
• Health Care Law may Hamper Limited Insurance Plans - The Associated Press, 9/30/10
  
  
• Lawsuits to Undo Key Parts of Health-Care Law Move Forward, So Far - The Christian Science Monitor, 9/29/10
  
  
• Employers, Workers to Pay More for Health Coverage - The Los Angeles Times, 9/27/10
  
  
  

Links / Websites

• www.nashp.org - The National Academy for State Health Policy

• www.healthreform.gov - Sponsored by Office of Management and Budget, includes President’s Budget and Fact Sheets

• www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fy2010_key_healthcare - Official Administration Web site on health reform; maintained by HHS

• healthreform.kff.org  - Sponsored by Kaiser Family Foundation

• voices.washingtonpost.com/health-care-reform - Sponsored by the Washington Post

• www.healthreform.org - Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• www.commonwealthfund.org  - Sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund

• www.healthaffairs.org - Sponsored by the Health Policy Journal, Health Affairs

• www.healthtransformation.net - Sponsored by the Center for Health Transformation

• www.allhealth.org - Sponsored by Alliance for Health Reform

• www.nhpf.org – Sponsored by the National Health Policy Forum