North Dakota Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in North Dakota?

North Dakota dropped one spot to 12th in the 2012 edition of America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• This year's findings indicate that overall health in North Dakota is likely to improve in coming years.
• North Dakota has one of the lowest percentages of children in poverty: 11.9 percent.

The bad news:

• The percentage of people without health insurance has increased over the 10 years to 11.3 percent in 2012.
• Nearly one in four adults reports binge drinking.

North Dakota's best and worst category rankings:

• Poor Mental Health Days – 1st
• Air Pollution – 2nd
• High School Graduation Rates – 3rd
• Occupational Fatalities – 45th
• Geographic Disparities – 47th
• Binge Drinking – 49th

more details

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

get local health results

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

Does North Dakota have a health insurance high risk pool?

Comprehensive Health Association of North Dakota (North Dakota health insurance risk pool)
Toll-free 1-800-737-0016 or (701) 277-2271

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

• 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 on how to find health insurance in North Dakota.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for North Dakota 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 North Dakota health insurance plan report cards.

North Dakota state government health insurance resources

North Dakota Medicaid —  Information on the federal and state funded Medicaid program for North Dakotans.

Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) —  Designed to provide health care insurance for children in families without health insurance or with inadequate health insurance. It does not replace Medicaid; in fact, children on Medicaid are precluded from CHIP participation.

North Dakota Insurance Department —  Health insurance section with topics of interest to North Dakotans.

North Dakota Department of Health —  The State Health Officer’s comprehensive site for health care information for state residents.

How did North Dakota 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 (1)

• Rick Berg