New Hampshire health insurance

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status report:
New Hampshire state health insurance exchange

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

About state health insurance exchanges

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How did New Hampshire 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)

• Charles Bass

• Frank Guinta

how healthy is living in New Hampshire?

New Hampshire has risen one spot closer to the top of the rankings and is now ranked as the third healthiest state to live in, according to the 2010 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• New Hampshire has seen decreases in all of the following: deaths due to cardiovascular disease (from 255.4 to 246.1 deaths per 100,000 members of the population), deaths due to cancer (from 211.3 to 196.2 deaths per 100,000 members of the population), and smoking (from 21.7 percent to 15.7 percent of the population).
• New Hampshire also has very low rates of children in poverty (10.5 percent of the population under the age of 18), violent crime (160 offenses per 100,000 population), and premature death (5,792 years of potential life before the age of 75 lost, per 100,000 members of the population).
• In addition, it has shown a low percentage of both uninsured members of the population (10.4 percent) and geographic disparity (5.7 percent).

The bad news:

• Obesity in New Hampshire has climbed over the course of ten years from 14.6 percent to 26.3 percent of the population.
• New Hampshire shows moderate levels of public health care funding ($63 per person).
• It also has a moderate-to-high prevalence of binge drinking, at 16.1 percent of the population.

New Hampshire's best and worst category rankings:

• Children in poverty – 2nd
• Early prenatal care – 2nd
• Violent crime – 3rd
• Premature death – 3rd
• Prevalence of binge drinking – 30th
• Deaths due to cancer – 30th
• Public health funding – 34th

more details

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

get local health results

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

does New Hampshire have a health insurance high risk pool?

New Hampshire Health Plan
Toll-free 1-877-888-6447

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

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

Georgetown's New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire.

Health insurance plan report cards for New Hampshire

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 New Hampshire health insurance plan report cards.

New Hampshire government health insurance resources

Missouri Department of Insurance – Health Insurance page – provides information on the price of medical care in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Insurance Department and the Commissioner's Advisory Committee on Health Insurance developed the Health Care Cost of Procedure (HealthCost) website in 2005.

New Hampshire Medicaid – a federal and state funded program that serves needy individuals and families who meet financial and other eligibility requirements and certain other individuals who lack adequate resources to pay for medical care.

Non-profit sites of interest to those in New Hampshire

Welcome to New Hampshire Healthy Kids! – is a non-profit organization providing access to low-cost and free health coverage options for New Hampshire's uninsured children and teens.