Health Reform Resources
Visit the Health Reform Resource Center, where you can explore the provisions of the Affordable Care Act and find the latest regulations. View the timeline for the highlights of the law, or use the "Find Health Reform Provisions" tool to search for specific provisions by year, category, and/or stakeholder group.
August 24, 2011 -
In this period of chronically high unemployment, millions of Americans are losing their health insurance coverage along with their jobs. A Commonwealth Fund brief finds that unemployed workers have few affordable coverage options. While the Affordable Care Act will provide new options, extending subsidies for COBRA would further protect unemployed workers, the authors say.
August 24, 2011 -
To better identify high-performing hospitals, Commonwealth Fund-supported examination researchers delved into composite measures of performance to see how hospitals performed on each of the individual component measures and on survey-based measures of patient care quality.
November 17, 2011 -
Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance policies increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent, as businesses required employees to contribute a greater share, this new Commonwealth Fund analysis finds.