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Health Care and Other Issues

• Who Pays for Health Care When Workers are Uninsured? (May 2, 2008)
• Poll Shows Americans Rank Health Care Near the Top of Their Economic Woes (April 29, 2008)
• The Price of Excess: Identifying Waste in Healthcare Spending (April 14, 2008)

• Families USA Reports on Link Between Lack of Health Insurance and Mortality in Multiple States: AR, IA, MI, MO, NV, NH, OH, OR, PA, VA, WV (March 26, 2008)

• Kaiser: Employer Health Insurance Costs and Worker Compensation (March 13, 2008)

• Kaiser: Separating the Forest from the Trees in Health Care Reform (February 29, 2008)

• CMS Actuaries Health Care Spending Predictions (February 26, 2008)

• Commonwealth Fund: The Growing Financial Burden of Health Care, 2001-2004 (January 8, 2008)

• Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview Survey, 2006 (January 2008)

• Commonwealth Fund: Bending the Curve: Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in the U.S. Health Spending (December 18, 2007)

• Commonwealth Fund: Maine’s Initial Experience in Expanding Coverage Through Dirigo Health Reforms (December 5, 2007)

• CBO The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending (November 2007)

  • Baucus Comments on CBO Study Of Health Care Costs (November 13, 2007)

• Alliance for Health Reform Tool Kit for Reporter’s: Health Care Costs (November 12, 2007)

• 50 State Health Ranking: America's Health Rankings- A Call to Action for People and Their Communities (November 12, 2007)

• Why Health Insurance is Important (November 9, 2007)

• Alliance for Health Reform Tool Kit for the Uninsured (November 2, 2007)

• Pepper Commission on Long Term Care Released (November 2, 2007)

• Overburdened and Overwhelmed: The Struggles of Communities with High Medical Cost Burdens (November 2007)

• UCP State of Disability in America (October 19, 2007)

• Commonwealth Fund Report: A Road Map to Health Insurance for All (October 18, 2007)

• Commonwealth Fund: Whither Employer-Based Health Insurance? The Current and Future Role of U.S. Companies in the Provision and Financing of Health Insurance (September 17, 2007)

• Health Affairs Webcast: Vulnerable Populations and Health Care: How Can We Improve? (September 11, 2007)

• Kaiser’s Employer Health Benefits 2007 Annual Survey (September 2007)

• Families USA: Wrong Direction: One Out of Three Americans Are Uninsured  (September 2007)

• Health Affairs: Health Spending By State of Residence, 1991-2004 (September 2007)

• Families USA State Expansions in Health Care Coverage Resource Center (September 2007)
• Kaiser Primer on Health Care Costs (August 9, 2007)
• Massachusetts Health Reform: Employers, Lower-Wage Workers and Universal Coverage (July 26, 2007)
• CBO Director Testimony on Rising Health Costs (July 9, 2007)
• Massachusetts Health Reform Tool Kit (July 2007)
• Families USA Report on Health Disparities in Massachusetts (June 2007)
• Kaiser Update Shows State Health Variations in Key Disparities Indicators (April 19, 2007)

• Kaiser and NGA of Elements of State Health Reform: Web Cast #2 (April 17, 2007)

• CBPP: President’s “Affordable Choices” Initiative Provides Little Support for States (April 3, 2007)

• Kaiser Webcast on Elements of State Health Reform (March 28, 2007)

• The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families (March 27, 2007)

• GAO on Employer-Sponsored Health and Retirement Benefits (March 2007)

• Health Affairs: Transforming the US Child Health System (March 2007)

• Commonwealth Fund Report: Congressional Health Care Bills, 2005-2007: Part I Insurance Coverage (March 19, 2007)

• RWJ: A State-By-State Look at Uninsured Children (March 14, 2007)

• Senator Baucus Seeks Way Forward on Health Care Reform (March 14, 2007)

• Senator Baucus Statement on Health Care Reform (March 14, 2007)

• CBPP: Food Stamp Program Budget Data and Need for Program Investment (March 14, 2007)
• Commonwealth Data Brief on the National Health Care Quality Report (March 12, 2007)
• Kaiser Snapshots: Health Care Costs (March 9, 2007)
• Kaiser Snapshots on How Medical Technology Affect Health Care Costs (March 2007)
• Commonwealth Fund Report Explores State Strategies to Expand Health Insurance Coverage (February 7, 2006)
• Kaiser Snapshots on Effect of Tying Eligibilities for Health Care Subsidies to the Federal Poverty Level (February 2007)
• President Bush Launches Affordable Choices Initiative (January 23, 2007)
• Kaiser Fact Sheet on Covering the Uninsured: Growing Need and Strained Resources (January 2007)
• Squeezing the Middle Class with More Costs and Less Coverage: KFF Diana Rowland Testimony (January 2007)
• Kaiser Fact Sheet Profiles Health Coverage for Low-Income Children (January 2007)
• Kaiser Releases Issue Brief on Issues for Young Adults with Disabilities and EPSDT (January 2007)
• American College of Physicians State of Health Care Report (January 2007)
• Kaiser Report on Number of Uninsured (January 2007)
• NCD Disability Policy Progress Report (December 2006)
• Kaiser Health Cast: A 360° Post Election Analysis of the Health Care Agenda (December 11, 2006)
• Kaiser: Health Coverage for Low-Income Americans (November 2006)
• Supports Intensity Scale Information from AAID (November 29, 2006)
• Kaiser Report on Health Savings Accounts and High Deductible Plans (October 2006)
• New Reports Analyze Latest Data on Health Coverage, Examine the Decline in Employer-Sponsored Coverage (October 2006)
• Kaiser 2006 Survey on Employer Health Benefits (September 2006)
• CDC Disability and Health State Chartbook 2006 (September 2006)
• Who are the Uninsured? A Consistent Profile Across National Surveys (August 2006)
• Commonwealth Fund Report: Framework for a High Performance Health System (August, 2006)
• President Bush Issues Health Care Transparency Executive Order (August 23, 2006)
  • Summary
  • CMS Press Release
• Kaiser Brief: Rising Unemployment and the Uninsured (January 2002)

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