New Jersey Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in New Jersey?

New Jersey is ranked as the 11th healthiest state to live in, according to the 2011 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation. This is a six-spot climb from 2010, when it was ranked at 17th.

New Jersey's best and worst category rankings:

• High School Graduation – 5th
• Smoking – 6th
• Infant Mortality – 7th
• Immunization Coverage – 2nd
• Preventable Hospitalizations Care – 34th
• Immunization Coverage – 45th
• Early Prenatal Care – 45th

more details

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

get local health results

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

Does New Jersey have a health insurance high risk pool?

New Jersey does not have a state risk pool. The state has guaranteed-issue meaning all citizens will be accepted at the same premium regardless of their health. Thus New Yorkers are lucky to have access to health insurance that is much better than a risk pool (which almost always charges a higher-than-the-going-rate because it is made up of uninsurable people).

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

• 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 New Jersey.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for New Jersey 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 New Jersey health insurance plan report cards.

New Jersey state government health insurance resources

How did New Jersey 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 (6)

• Rodney Frelinghuysen
• Scott Garrett
• Leonard Lance
• Frank LoBiondo

• Jon Runyan
• Christopher Smith

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No (7)

• Robert Andrews
• Rush Holt
• Frank Pallone
• William Pascrell

• Donald Payne
• Steven Rothman
• Albio Sires