Ii. General Information about State Health Care Reform Initiatives

All 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, responded to the survey, with the vast majority of states (98%) reporting engagement in health care reform activity as of late 1997 early 1998, when the data were collected. Table 1 shows that a 12% larger majority of states reported involvement in health care reform activity of some kind in 1997-98 than in 1995. Fifty states (98%) reported health care reform activity in 199798, compared to 44 states (86%) in 1995. Only one state (2%) reported no health care reform activity as of 1997-1998, compared to seven states (14%) in 1995. Nineteen states (37%) reported they are experimenting with multiple types of reforms, reflecting a small increase from the 15 states (29%) reporting multiple types of reforms in 1995.