This report examines recent trends in employer-sponsored insurance at the national and state level, and it expands and updates our previous analysis. The report uses state-level data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the coverage component of the analysis and data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) for the employer and cost components of the analysis.

In its role as a technical assistance provider for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Network initiative, SHADAC collaborated with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and Manatt Health Solutions to produce an analysis of the fiscal effects of expanding Medicaid in Oregon under the ACA.  The analysis, prepared for the Oregon Health Authority, estimates the potential costs and benefits of the ACA Medicaid expansion to the State through SFY 2020.  Overall, the analysis projects that the expansion would provide coverage to more than 240,000 newly eligible Oregonians and encourage approximately 20,000 previously eligible Oregonians to enroll in coverage.  Ultimately, this will generate $11.3 billion in federal health care expenditures and a net savings of $79 million to the state general fund.