Nevada health insurance

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status report:
Nevada state health insurance exchange

What progress is being made in setting up its federally-mandated Nevada state health insurance exchange?"

About state health insurance exchanges

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How did Nevada officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

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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 (2)

• Joe Heck

• Dean Heller

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No (1)

• Shelley Berkley

how healthy is living in Nevada?

Nevada is ranked as the 47th healthiest state to live in, according to the 2010 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation, a two-spot drop from its 45th place position in 2009.

The good news:

• Nevada's strengths include its relatively low rates of children in poverty (17.9 percent of the population under the age of 18) and infant mortality (6.4 deaths per 1,000 live births).
• The state was also praised for its low rate of preventable hospitalizations, which – in addition to being low – showed a decrease over the past year.
• Nevada has also seen in the past ten years a decrease in both smoking (from 31.5 percent to 22 percent of the population) and cardiovascular disease (from 408.8 to 299 deaths per 100,000 members of the population).

The bad news:

• Nevada ranks dead last in three categories: low high school graduation rate, low public health funding, and high rate of violent crime.
• It also shows very low rates of immunization coverage, with 83.8 percent of 19- to 35-month-old children receiving their recommended immunizations, and early prenatal care, with 73.3. percent of women receiving prenatal care within their first trimester of pregnancy.
• Obesity has climbed in Nevada over the past 5 years from 21.1. percent to 26.4 of the total population.

Nevada's best and worst category rankings:

• Preventable hospitalizations – 12th
• Air pollution – 17th
• Children in poverty and infant mortality – 19th
• High school graduation (52 percent) – 50th
• Violent crime (702 offenses per 100,000 population) – 50th
• Public health funding ($39 per capita) – 50th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Nevada.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Nevada 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 Nevada here.

get local health results

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

does Nevada have a health insurance high risk pool?

No, Nevada does not offer its own risk pool for its citizens who are medically uninsurable.

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

how to find health insurance in Nevada

Cover The Uninsured is a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. Read more information on its efforts. It is a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• Cover The Uninsured's facts on the uninsured in Nevada and all other states.
• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's guide on how to find health insurance in Nevada.
• Materiales En Español – Guías para encontrar cobertura de seguro de salud.

Georgetown's Nevada health insurance guide

Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute has researched and written state-by-state guides for finding and keeping health insurance. It updates these guides as federal and state policies change. A number of non-profit organizations help fund its research. Learn more about the Health Policy Institute.

Review Georgetown's guide for Nevada.

Health insurance plan report cards for Nevada

The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers.

Go here to search for Nevada health insurance plan report cards.

Nevada government health insurance resources

Governor's Office for Consumer Health Assistance Bureau for Hospital Patients – a single point of contact for consuemrs and injured workers to help them understand their rights and responsibilites under Nevada law.

Nevada Checkup – strives to provide low-cost, comprehensive health care coverage to low income, uninsured children age 18 and under who are not covered by private insurance or Medicaid.

Division of Health Care Financing and Policy– Medicaid – works in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assist in providing quality medical care for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and limited resources.

Medicare in Nevada – SHIP Volunteers offer FREE one-on-one assistance-and-counseling with respect to many problems seniors encounter regarding Medicare, supplemental health insurance and long-term care options.