State Strategies for Health Insurance
The employer based health insurance system is crumbling which is resulting in more uninsured people with more limited access to much needed health services. Latest state level reforms try to focus on lower income families with new variations on employer and personal health insurance coverage responsibilities. States are targeting near universal coverage while keeping a focus on providing more coverage for children or partnership between public and private insurance groups to help insure low income workers. Alarming figures show that the number of uninsured can rise to 56 million by 2013. With a seeming lack of action from the federal level, many state leaders have taken it upon themselves to enact reforms at the state level.