Publications & Reports

Related to National Reform:

Affordability & Benefits

• Reform must put people first
• Success Hinges on Affordability

Costs-- Cost of Doing Nothing & Costs of Reform

• A Plan to Ensure Budget Neutrality
• Changes to Exclusion of ESI Premiums
• Sen. Finance Committee on Financing - Full Report
• Sen. Finance Committee on Financing - Overview
• Cost of Failing at Natl Reform
• Hidden Health Tax
• Too Great A Burden

Exchange (a.k.a. Connector, Organized Market Place)

• Rules of the Road: How an Insurance Exchange Can Pool Risk
• Creating An Exchange: Lessons from Massachusetts
• Designing Benefit Standards for the Exchange
• Organizing Health Insurance Marketplace

Mandates (Shared and Personal Responsibility)

• Individual Mandates

Public Plan Choice (Option)

• Why Public Plan is Necessary
• Public Plan Choice: Why We Need One
• Healthy Competition with Public Plan Option

Plans/Bills

• HELP Bill Analysis
• Baucus Whitepaper (being used by US Senate to shape reform bill)
• Compare Baucus Plan to Healthy Americans Act
• US National Health Care Act (a.k.a. Single Payer Plan)

Other National Reports:

• Expanding Coverage for Dependents

State Reports:

• Tennessee’s Small Businesses and Factors Influencing Health Insurance Coverage

• Health Reform: Serious Business for Tennessee's Small Businesses
• CoverTN: Tennessee's Barebones Health Plan, A Case Study
• 1 in 3 Tennesseans Uninsured
• Financing Health Care for the Uninsured (TN Comptroller's Report)