Policy Research

Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus program creates an integrated health insurance system of Medicaid and subsidies under one umbrella.

What are Americans most afraid of when it comes to health care? How many are delaying the care they need? Are consumers confident or worried about the future?

Layoffs lead to lost benefits and reduced insurance premiums for many people. A new brief examines the complex interactions among employment, insurance and costs.

One of the most controversial issues in health reform is the concept of an employer mandate—a requirement that most employers would either have to provide health insurance for their employees, or pay a percentage of total payroll costs to the government. Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) explore the concept—as well as the current state of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), which provides coverage for 61 percent of the non-elderly population.

The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) is the nation’s largest employer-sponsored health plan, offering enrollees numerous options for health insurance. This brief examines how elements of the nation's largest employer-sponsored health plan might serve as a model for reform.

This chart shows the top reasons why people are worried about losing their health insurance.

According to a new survey by the Harvard School of Public Health and the RWJF, Americans rank health care as the second highest priority for governmental action.

This slide compares the percentage of people who ranked health care as one of the most important issues for the government to address in April 2008 to June 2009.

This chart shows how Americans ranked the nation's system of providing medical care in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

A new analysis shows that savings from many popular health reform ideas would finance the lion’s share of the cost of comprehensive health care reform.