Resources

Resources

• Interactive Map: Health Reform Will Lead to Job Creation (Center for American Progress)
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care for Small Businesses: Increasing Choice, Protecting Workers (US Senate Committee on Finance) (PDF)
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, What American Families, Small Businesses and Workers Get Right Away (US Senate Committee on Finance) (PDF)
• Factsheet: Small Business Health Care Amendment, Affordability and Sustainability for America’s Small Businesses (US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship) (PDF)
• Fact Sheet: New CBO Analysis Confirms Benefits of Health Insurance Reform for Businesses (US Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius)
• Comparing the House and the Senate Health Care Proposals (The New York Times)
• Facts about small businesses (US Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy)
• Facts about small businesses in each state (SBA profiles)
• Interactive comparison of major healthcare reform proposals (Kaiser Family Foundation website)
• Data on insurance coverage trends (Kaiser Family Foundation yearly survey of employer benefits, see exhibit 2.2)
  

Reports

• Health Insurance Reform Will Help Small Businesses (Council of Economic Advisers)
• Who Benefits from the Proposed Amendment to the Senate Excise Tax on Employer Health Premiums? (UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education) (PDF)
• Health Care Spending Under Reform: Less Uncompensated Care and Lower Costs to Small Employers (Urban Institute, January 2010)
• What Would Health Care Reform Mean for Small Employers and Their Workers? (Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 2009) (PDF)
• The Economic Case For Health Care Reform: Update (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisers, December 14, 2009) (PDF)
• House-Passed and Senate Health Bills Reduce Deficit, Slow Health Care Costs, and Include Realistic Medicare Savings (James R. Horney and Paul N. Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) PDF of full report
• The House Proposal Lowers Non-Group Premiums (Jonathan Gruber, MIT, November 2, 2009) (PDF)
• Lower Premiums, Stronger Businesses: How Health Insurance Reform Will Bring Down Costs for Small Businesses (US Department of Health & Human Services, October, 2009)
• Containing Costs and Avoiding Tax Increases While Improving Quality: Affordable Coverage and High Value Care (National Coalition on Health Care, October 22, 2009) (PDF)
• The High Cost of Small Business Health Insurance: Supplemental Information Regarding the Small Business Health Insurance Market (U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, October 20, 2009) (PDF)
• Insurance at Risk: Small Busness Employees Risk Losing Coverage (White House, Oct. 20, 2009)
• "Massachusetts Health Reform: Employer Coverage From Employees' Perspective" (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, October 1, 2009)
• "Report Provides State-By-State Look at the Impact to Residents, Businesses and State Government if Health Reform Fails" (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 30, 2009)
• "Rising Health Care Costs and Business" (Business Forward, September 9, 2009)
• “Health Care Reform: The Perils of Inaction and the Promise of Effective Action” (Business Roundtable and Hewitt Associates, September 2009) (PDF)
  

Resource archives:

• January-August 2009