Health Insurance

Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is a target rate of growth in spending for physicians’ services. Payments for physicians’ services are supposed to automatically adjust in response to actual spending falling either above or below the target.

Several proposals to increase health coverage for the currently uninsured rely on encouragements to utilize and potentially expand the individual insurance market. In broadening health insurance coverage, it is important to understand the regulatory environment under which these proposals would be implemented.

IntroductionAlthough the majority of Americans with health insurance obtain their coverage through group health plans offered through their employers, many individuals obtain their coverage through the nongroup (or individual) insurance market.

The study provides public programs, employers and private insurers with effective best practices used in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and the private insurance market to improve participation in health insurance coverage.

The President has proposed, and at least one bill has been introduced in Congress, to change federal law that prevents health insurance from being offered nationally as opposed to in only state-specific markets.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Changes in Coverage in the Individual and Group Health Insurance Markets and the Effect of Health Status

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives February 2008 Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Prepared By: Karin Martinson and Demetra Nightingale The Urban Institute