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| How Nonprofits Matter In American Medicine, And What To Do About It
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Mark Schlesinger,
Bradford H. Gray,
Health Affairs,
6/20/2006
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Mark Schlesinger and Bradford Gray, authors of a forthcoming Century Foundation book on non-profits and health care, argue in a recent article in Health Affairs that non-profits can play a distinct and important role in delivering medical care.
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Link to Paper
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| Prognosis Worsens for Workers' Health Care
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Elise Gould,
Economic Policy Institute,
10/20/2005
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Rising overall uninsured numbers mask a distinct shift from insurance coverage through the private sector to insurance coverage through the public sector, particularly for children.
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Link to Brief
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| Medicaid Cost Containment and Access to Prescription Drugs
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Center for Studying Health System Change,
5/12/2005
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More than one-fifth of all adult Medicaid enrollees in 2003 reported they couldn't afford to get at least one prescription filled.
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Link to Report
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| Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project
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Georgetown University Health Policy Institute,
5/1/2005
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The need for long-term care is unpredictable and therefore the kind of care that insurance is meant to address. However, neither public nor private insurance protection is adequate.
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Link to Issue Brief
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| HSAs Unlikely to Help Cover Substantial Numbers of Uninsured Americans: New Study
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Sherry Glied,
Dahlia Remler,
Commonwealth Fund,
4/20/2005
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Researchers say health savings accounts could destabilize the insurance market for small employers, while at the same time, low and middle-income uninsured will see little or no tax savings.
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Link to Report
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| Prescription Drug Coverage and Seniors: Findings from a 2003 National Survey
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Kaiser Family Foundation,
4/19/2005
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In a 2003 national survey of Medicare beneficiaries age sixty-five and older, more than one-quarter reported no prescription coverage, and nearly half of low-income seniors in some states lacked coverage.
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Link to Report
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| Health Insurance Coverage for Small Employers
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Dawn M. Gencarelli,
National Health Policy Forum,
4/19/2005
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For workers of small employers, access to affordable health insurance coverage is a growing concern.
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Link to Paper (PDF)
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| The Public on Prescription Drugs for Seniors
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Kaiser Family Foundation,
4/1/2005
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Besides the new prescription drug benefit, there continues to be strong support for other government policies that aim to lower prescription drug prices.
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Link to Report
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| 2005 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
3/23/2005
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The financial outlook for the Medicare program continues to raise serious concerns.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Demography Is Not Destiny, Revisited
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Robert Friedland,
Laura Summer,
Commonwealth Fund,
3/1/2005
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This report provides a framework to understand why the future of the United States will not be determined solely by anticipated changes in the size and age distribution of the population.
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Link to Report
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| Medicaid Budget Proposals Would Shift Costs to States and Be Likely to Cause Reductions in Health Coverage
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Leighton Ku,
Victoria Wachino,
Andy Schneider,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
2/18/2005
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The President’s budget for fiscal year 2006 includes major proposals relating to Medicaid, the health care and long-term care program for low-income Americans that is jointly funded by the federal government and the states. The Administration proposes to reduce net federal funding for Medicaid by $45 billion over the next ten years.
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Link to Report
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| Falling Through the Cracks: Stories of How Health Insurance Can Fail People with Diabetes
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Karen Pollitz,
Eliza Bangit,
Kevin Lucia,
Holly Whelan,
Mila Kofman,
Kelly Montgomery,
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute,
American Diabetes Association,
2/8/2005
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A glimpse of how the patchwork system of coverage in the U.S. affects individual lives.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Half of Insured Adults with High-Deductible Health Plans Experience Medical Bill or Debt Problems
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Commonwealth Fund,
1/27/2005
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High-deductible health plan enrollees are more likely to experience cost-related access difficulties, warning all of the hazards of health savings accounts for poorer and sicker adults.
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Link to Report
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| Making Medicaid a Block Grant Program: An Analysis of the Implications of Past Proposals
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Jeanne Lambrew,
The Milbank Quarterly,
1/26/2005
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Since individuals losing Medicaid probably have few affordable alternatives, block grants could result in raising the number of the uninsured.
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Link to Paper (PDF)
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| Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century
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Various Authors,
National Academy for State Health Policy,
1/1/2005
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A group of experts propose expanding and improving Medicaid coverage through a new national minimum eligibility level and other measures.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Improving Drug Safety: The Importance of Postmarketing Drug Surveillance
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Robert N. Butler,
Michael K. Gusmano,
James P. Nyberg,
International Longevity Center,
12/1/2004
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Given the ever increasing use of prescription drugs, coupled with an aging population, a streamlined and integrated postmarketing drug surveillance system would better detect any unintended effects.
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Link to Issue Brief (PDF)
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| Health, United States, 2004
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
10/1/2004
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A comprehensive guide to trends in the health of Americans.
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Link to Report
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| Tick-Tock: Preparing for the Next Influenza Pandemic
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National Health Policy Forum,
8/27/2004
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This paper describes the nature of pandemic influenza and explains how
an influenza pandemic would differ from annual influenza outbreaks and examines
how a pandemic virus could emerge.
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Link to Paper (PDF)
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| Views of the New Medicare Drug Law
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Various Authors,
Kaiser Family Foundation,
Harvard School of Public Health,
8/10/2004
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A national survey finds nearly twice as many people on Medicare have an unfavorable view of the new Medicare prescription drug law as have a favorable view.
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Link to Study
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| Health Insurance Coverage in Retirement
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Jeffrey Wenger,
Christian Weller,
Elise Gould,
Economic Policy Institute,
6/1/2004
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New data on medical coverage in retirement raises serious concerns about the future retirement security of the elderly and near-elderly.
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| One in Three: Non-Elderly Americans Without Health Insurance, 2002-2003
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Families USA,
6/1/2004
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Estimate of the number of Americans who spent some part of the year without health insurance.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans
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Barbara S. Cooper,
Lauren Hersch Nicholas,
Brian Biles,
Commonwealth Fund,
5/1/2004
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Although the stated objective of efforts to increase enrollment in private plans is to lower costs, the policies of the new Medicare law regarding private plans explicitly increase Medicare costs in 2004 and through 2013.
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Link to Issue Brief (PDF)
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| Retiree Health Benefits Now and in the Future
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The Kaiser Family Foundation,
Hewitt Associates,
1/1/2004
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Based on a survey of large U.S. employers, 10% say they eliminated subsidized health benefits for future retirees in the last years, and 20% are likely to do so in the next three years.
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Link to Report
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| Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries
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The Kaiser Family Foundation,
Health Policy Alternatives,
12/10/2003
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A summary of the main provisions of the recently-passed Medicare bill.
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Link to Summary
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| The Decade Preceding Medicare Coverage
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Center on an Aging Society,
9/1/2003
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Adults who are approaching 65 with chronic conditions and are uninsured are less healthy and more likely to need treatment than insured individuals of the same age.
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Link to Report (PDF)
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| Lifetime Social Security and Medicare Benefits
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C. Eugene Steuerle,
Urban Institute,
3/1/2003
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Assessing the lifetime package of retirement benefits—including Medicare—gives the most comprehensive picture of what government is being asked to provide for the elderly.
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Link to Issue Brief (PDF)
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