Publications by Sabrina Corlette for Health Policy Center

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In this fifth of a series of ten briefs on state implementation efforts of the Affordable Care Act, researchers from the Urban Institute and Georgetown University provide a recap of their findings from a New York site visit conducted in December 2011. The findings in the report are based off of extensive interviews with state government officials, health care stakeholders and policy experts. New York's ACA implementation successes and challenges thus far relating to the health insurance exchange, Medicaid expansion, and private insurance market reforms, are discussed throughout the report. Current political difficulties and the state's history of involvement in insurance regulation and Medicaid eligibility expansion are also considered as New York moves ahead in implementing national health reform.

Many of the provisions to expand health coverage in the Affordable Care Act must be implemented by the states. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Urban Institute is undertaking a comprehensive monitoring and tracking project to examine the implementation and effects of the ACA in ten of the states: Alabama, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Virginia. This first report is a case study analysis of Oregon’s efforts to advance health care reform. Derived from a site visit and extensive interviews with state officials and state stakeholders, it documents Oregon's considerable progress in establishing an exchange, implementing insurance reforms, and preparing for an expansion of Medicaid, all within a challenging fiscal environment.

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