For the last few years, states have been leading the way toward more comprehensive health care coverage to ensure that more people have or can obtain health insurance. Because of the potential impact of this ongoing activity on employer-provided health insurance benefits, Spencer’s Benefits Reports provides regular updates about state health care reform.

Washington. Recent budget cuts have forced the state’s low-cost health insurance program, Washington’s Basic Health plan, to take no new customers, while the recession has increased demand for the plan. Approximately 78,834 people are enrolled in the plan, while 78,419 people are on the plan’s waiting list. For more information, visit http://www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/.

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