North Dakota health insurance

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status report:
North Dakota state health insurance exchange

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

About state health insurance exchanges

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How did North Dakota 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 (1)

• Rick Berg

how healthy is living in North Dakota?

North Dakota has risen a spot from 2009 and is now ranked as the 16th healthiest state to live in, according to the 2010 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• North Dakota has the lowest rate of infectious disease in the country, with only 2.4 cases for every 100,000 members of the population.
• It is also in the top five for its low rates of air pollution and violent crime, despite the fact that the crime rate has risen over the past five years, from 79 to 201 offenses per 10,000 individuals in the population.
• The state was also praised in 2010 for its high rates of high school graduation (83.1 percent ) and immunization coverage (93.3. percent).

The bad news:

• North Dakota has one of the highest rates of binge drinking in the nation, at 21.5 percent of the state's overall population.
• The state's geographic disparity is 17.7 percent, placing the state in the bottom ten for that category also.
• Other challenges facing North Dakota are a high rate of occupational fatalities and a growing percentage of obesity.

North Dakota's best and worst category rankings:

• Infectious disease – 1st
• Poor physical health days – 1st
• Poor mental health days – 1st
• Occupational fatalities – 34th
• Geographic disparity – 46th
• Prevalence of 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.

how to find health insurance in North Dakota

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

Georgetown's North Dakota 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 North Dakota.

Health insurance plan report cards for North Dakota

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 North Dakota health insurance plan report cards.

North Dakota government health insurance resources

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

North Dakota Insurance Department – health insurance section – links in the left-hand navigation bar

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.