1 – Private Coverage
Private health insurance, including employer-based insurance, insurance sold on the ACA marketplaces, and other forms of individual health insurance coverage.
2 – Medicare
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and for other adults who qualify due to having a permanent disability or end-stage renal disease.
3 – Medicaid and CHIP
State-federal partnerships that provide health coverage for people with low incomes, children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children and disabled individuals.
4 – Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law in March 2010.
5 – Health Care Costs
The drivers of health care costs, federal spending, consumer spending, and industry consolidation.
6 – Delivery System Reform
Innovations in payment and delivery systems, in both the public and private sectors.
7 – Social Determinants of Health
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that affect their health.
8 – Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Behavioral health, addiction, and the health care system that treats these issues.
9 – Public Health and Prevention
Protecting and improving the health of communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research, and detection and control of infectious diseases.
10 – Long-Term Services and Supports
Formal and informal aid that focuses on those who are unable to take care of themselves due to age, disability or illness.
Acknowledgements
The entire Alliance for Health Reform staff and our capable interns contributed to this edition the Sourcebook. We also thank the experts from the health policy community who contributed their vast knowledge.
About the Alliance for Health Reform
The Alliance for Health Reform is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping policymakers understand the foundations of health policy, the roots of the nation’s health care issues and the trade-offs posed by various proposals for change.
