Health
The Academy Health Practice Council (HPC) is dedicated to providing policymakers and regulators with insights to navigate the complex landscape of health insurance and healthcare affordability.
The HPC’s commitment to objectivity and precision in this vital sector helps shape and inform decisions that impact the lives of millions of Americans every day.
Controlling Health Care Spending Growth
Explore issues pertaining to the drivers of health care costs and slowing the growth in health care spending.
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Financial Reporting, Risk Management and Solvency
Financial reporting and solvency issues at the state level, such as NAIC related projects on RBC, as well as emerging international solvency issues and federal regulation of insurance companies.
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Health Reform & ACA Implementation
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and other health care reform issues.
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Long-Term Care
Federal and state long-term care issues, including the CLASS Act and LTC pricing/valuation.
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Medicare/Medicaid
Ideas for improving Medicare’s financial stability and insights on Medicaid and CHIP programs.
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Issue Brief
Health Issue Brief Examines Access, Affordability, Choice, and Competition in the Individual Market
An issue brief from the Individual and Small Group Markets Committee, Ensuring Access, Affordability, Choice, and Competition in the Individual Health Insurance Market, provides an overview of how…
Topics: Health Insurance
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Issue Brief Examines Medicaid Per-Capita Caps, Design Considerations, and Policy Implications
A Medicaid Committee issue brief, Medicaid Per Capita Caps: Design Considerations and Policy Implications, focuses on Medicaid per-capita caps and discusses some of the key design considerations…
Topics: Medicare / Medicaid
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Issue Brief Examines the Current State of LTCI
A new issue brief from the Academy’s Long-Term Care Committee, The State of Long-Term Care Insurance—2025, highlights the current state of LTCI, focusing specifically on policy design, the…
Topics: Long-Term Care
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Premium Drivers Infographic Released
Released alongside the annual issue brief, The Individual and Small Group Markets Committee released an infographic, “Drivers of 2025 Health Insurance Premium Changes—Effects on Premiums”. The…
Topics: Health Insurance
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Issue Brief Examines ERISA in the Context of Health Benefits
The Health Practice Council has released an issue brief, ERISA at 50: ERISA and Health Benefits. The issue brief covers the history of ERISA’s application to health benefits, subsequent amendments…
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Executive Summary – ERISA in the Context of Health Benefits
The Health Practice Council has released an issue brief, ERISA at 50: ERISA and Health Benefits. The issue brief covers the history of ERISA’s application to health benefits, subsequent amendments…
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Premium Drivers Issue Brief Released
The Individual and Small Group Markets Committee released an issue brief, Drivers of 2025 Health Insurance Premium Changes. The brief provides more details on the factors that are likely to drive…
Topics: Health Insurance
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Medicare’s Financial Condition: Beyond Actuarial Balance
The Medicare Committee released an issue brief, Medicare’s Financial Condition: Beyond Actuarial Balance, that examines the findings of the 2024 Medicare Trustees Report with respect to program…
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Health Equity Issue Brief Summarizes Series on Benefit Design and Removing Barriers to Successful Implementation
The Health Equity Committee released an issue brief summarizing its “Health Benefit Design Innovations for Advancing Health Equity: Removing the Barriers to Successful Implementation” series.
Topics: Health Equity
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Health Equity Issue Brief Examines The Needs of Populations We are Trying to Serve
The latest issue brief in its “Health Benefit Design Innovations for Advancing Health Equity: Removing the Barriers to Successful Implementation” series explores how to better understand unmet…
Topics: Health Equity