Snapshot Archive

The Health Care Value Hub’s Health Care Affordability State Policy Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states.

2025 Snapshot

Policies were selected based on whether they have the potential to impact health care affordability or access to health care at the state level, whether a reputable source was available, and whether evidence was current within the past ten years. Policies were examined for whether they were active, implemented to a limited degree, or not active as of June 1, 2025. Definitions and sources for this information can be found in the downloadable Glossary of Terms and Topics and Methods and Source Workbook.

*Partial implementation is granted in cases where there is evidence that further expansion of the policy would have a greater impact on health care affordability, such as: active policies that are available to some, but not all, people within the population it is intended to serve; policies that do not include all components that make them effective at improving affordability; and policies that limit some, but not all, of a practice that can make care less affordable. Additional details available in downloadable Excel file.