Can Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Be Saved?
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Diabetes Treatment Innovation: Moving from Standards of Care to Coverage
On Thursday, November 6, 2025 Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms...
Is ERISA Up for the Job? Improving Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Affordability
On Tuesday, June 2, 2026, Georgetown CHIR, in collaboration with the Peterson Center on Healthcare, ...
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A 3-Part Strategy for Better Health Insurance, Executive Summary
To help policymakers confront health care affordability challenges, the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) has released A 3-Part Strategy for Better Health Insurance: Reducing Costs, Complexity, and Corporate Abuses, a new brief that details actionable federal solutions to reform commercial coverage.
A 3-Part Strategy for Better Health Insurance, Full Brief
To help policymakers confront health care affordability challenges, the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) has released A 3-Part Strategy for Better Health Insurance: Reducing Costs, Complexity, and Corporate Abuses, a new brief that details actionable federal solutions to reform commercial coverage.
ERISA 101: Key Terms and Concepts
ERISA 101: Key Terms and Concepts breaks down ERISA’s complex legal jargon to help policymakers as they craft reforms to improve the affordability of employer-sponsored health insurance.
Leveraging Data to Control Costs: How Five State Employee Health Plans Use Claims and Price Transparency Data to Improve Affordability
A new report from the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, supported by Arnold Ventures, examines how state employee health plans (SEHPs) in five states—California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Utah—access and utilize claims and price transparency data to improve affordability for their employees.
Health Care Costs for Small Employers: Analysis of Market Challenges and Policy Solutions
In this report, researchers partnered with health actuaries at Wakely Consulting Group (Wakely) to assess the current state of the market for small employer health insurance, the factors driving its decline, and the scope of potential policies to improve coverage affordability for small businesses and their workers.
Protecting Consumers From the Corporate Transformation of Health Care
As corporations and private equity increasingly take control of our health care systems and profits take precedence over care, patients are caught in the middle.
How Has Corporatization Transformed Your State’s Healthcare Market?
A guide for policymakers and state regulators to understand the extent of corporatization in your state and how your state regulates corporate practices in healthcare.
Blog Posts:
ERISA 101: Key Terms and Concepts
ERISA is a mechanism used to restrain health plan spending. In this blog, CHIR experts discuss a new...
The Fair Pay, Fair Play TPA: A Proposal To Disrupt The Market For Health Plan Administration
The current landscape of consolidated hospitals and insurance conglomerates is unsustainable for bot...
New CHIR Brief on ERISA’s Role in Improving Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Affordability
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is the primary law governing most privat...
So You Want to Tackle Health Care Affordability? Here’s Where State Policymakers Can Start
As health care costs continue to strain families and employers, states are stepping up with proven s...
The Clock is Ticking. Can Congress Prevent an Imminent Spike in Marketplace Premiums on January 1?
Congress has returned to Washington, D.C. from its Thanksgiving break, but has yet to resolve the de...
Recent Actions by Congress and the Administration Weaken the Market for All, Including Workers Using Individual Coverage HRAs
As provisions of H.R. 1 impact the individual market for coverage, workers with employer-funded ICHR...
Indiana’s Extraordinary Legislative Session Exemplifies How Incremental Efforts Can Improve Health Care Affordability
While Indiana lawmakers have been working to reduce health care costs for commercial health insuranc...
Can States Harness Market Power to Rein In Health Care Costs?
As U.S. health care spending continues to spiral higher, states are using a variety of tools to push...
Third-Party Administrators – The Middlemen Of Self-Funded Health Insurance
Pharmacy benefit managers have received significant public attention for their exploitative, cost in...
State Spotlight: The Use Of Provider-Based Reference Pricing In Oklahoma And South Carolina
Like other employer health plans across the commercial insurance market, state employee health plans...