Arizona Health Futures

Arizona Health Futures (AHF) is SLHI’s public policy, education and advocacy arm. To date, staff and a growing network of health policy researchers and analysts have produced over 85 nonpartisan, independent research reports, issue briefs, and policy primers on various health care, health system and community health topics.  These have been used extensively by policy leaders, educators, advocates, health care and community health providers to inform and improve policy and practice.

For FY2011 AHF publications were once again downloaded over 150,000 times. Some highlights:

After the Dust Settles – The first of a three-part series examining the impact of state budget cuts, After the Dust Settles looks at our most vulnerable citizens, describes their current systems of care, analyzes the cuts and looks towards opportunities for a future system that meets their desired and required needs.

 

Impact Arizona: Healthcare Reform hits Arizona  – The complex, ambitious and contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to face significant legal, polictical, financial and administrative challenges. It remains to be seen how forces will influence it, but it seems only prudent for states to prepare for implementation. ImpAct Arizona provides Arizona-specific analysis.

 

A Closer Look at Proposals to Create an Arizona Health Insurance Exchange – Appraising Arizona’s first two health insurance exchange legislative bills and progress towards establishing a state-based exchange within the context of other states’ actions and federal guidance.

 

Unlocking Resilience: The Key to Healthy Aging in Arizona – Prepared for SLHI by The Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Unlocking Resilience examines a different foundation from which to develop public policy on aging.