State Health Insurance Regulation Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets: A Dialogue between Policymakers and Researchers

Conference Purpose and Overview 
New Jersey was among a number of states that implemented health insurance market reforms in the early 1990s to improve access to affordable health coverage. Accelerating health insurance costs and reemerging growth in the number of uninsured nationally have led many states to take stock of their health coverage policies. With a decade of experience, research has begun to emerge analyzing the effects and sustainability of state health insurance reforms like those in New Jersey. 

Today, as many states reexamine their strategies, it is important that the emerging studies be brought to light and carefully evaluated. By convening this expert panel, we hope to stimulate a broad dialogue about the emerging body of research evidence among representatives from the policy, research, insurance carrier and consumer advocate communities. This conference is intended to provide a forum for discussion of the future of state regulation in the non-group and small-group health coverage markets and the policy changes that may be required to sustain healthy markets.