Ohio Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in Ohio?

Ohio is ranked as the 36th healthiest state to live in, according to the 2011 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

Ohio's best and worst category rankings:

• Occupational Fatalities – 8th
• Cancer Death – 43rd
• Smoking – 45th
• Public Health Funding – 47th
• Air Pollution – 48th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Ohio.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Ohio health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts Ohio here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Ohio, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Does Ohio have a health insurance high risk pool?

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, Ohio started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about Ohio's participation, click here.

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black. In the best cases, they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.

Non-profit sources of health insurance information for Ohio

• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's mission is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Here is its guide to guide on how to find health insurance in Ohio.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for Ohio can be found here.
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers. Search for Ohio health insurance plan report cards.

Ohio state government health insurance resources

Ohio Medicaid —  The federal and state funded program for low income Ohioans.

Ohio Children’s Health Insurance Program —  Designed to provide increased access to health coverage for children in families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid (Title XIX) but too low to afford private coverage.

Ohio Department of Mental Health —  Each year, Ohio’s community mental health systems provide services to more than 260,000 people, including 75,000 adults who are disabled by severe mental illness and 70,000 children with emotional disorders. More information at the department’s Web site.

Ohio HIPAA information —  Describes what the State of Ohio is doing to comply with requirements of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Ohio Department of Health —  Deals with many issues affecting health care delivery in Ohio.

Consumer complaint ratio on different health insurance plans —  A PDF document from the State of Ohio showing the ratio of consumer complaints on various health insurance plans, and more. Biggest complaints seem to be for Vantage and Physicians Mutual, neither of which are offered on this site.

Ohio consumer guide to health insurance —  A PDF published by the Ohio Department of Insurance.

State of Ohio Department of Insurance Homepage —  The State of Ohio’s department of insurance provides official information all types of insurance.

How did Ohio officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

#14

Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (13)

• Steve Austria
• John Boehner
• Steven Chabot
• Bob Gibbs
• Bill Johnson

• Jim Jordan
• Steven LaTourette
• Robert Latta
• Jim Renacci
• Jean Schmidt

• Steve Stivers
• Patrick Tiberi
• Michael Turner

Our
Pick

No (5)

• Marcia Fudge
• Marcy Kaptur
• Dennis Kucinich
• Timothy Ryan
• Betty Sutton