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Costs of expanding health care coverage partly offset by future Medicare savings
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Expanding health coverage might not cost as much as policymakers assume.
Universal coverage may narrow racial, ethnic and socioeconomic gaps in health care
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Health care disparities in the U.S. have long been noted, with particular attention paid to the gaps separating racial and economic groups. And while some research has looked at how insurance—and lack of insurance—contributes ...
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Can payment and other innovations improve the quality and value of health care?
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A paramount topic at the moment is value in health care: What should we pay for and how much? Resources aren't unlimited, and desires or demands for health care should be balanced against various realities--including the ...
Prioritizing health-care reform components
Feb 06, 2009 |
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Faced with a barrage of pressing issues, the Obama administration has placed health-care reform high on its agenda. The timing bodes well for change, according to Aaron E. Carroll, M.D., director of the Indiana University ...
Health policy expert says US can learn from Dutch universal healthcare coverage
Dec 06, 2008 |
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The United States can learn from the Dutch Health Insurance System model, according to an article by Pauline V. Rosenau, Ph.D., in the December issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Mayo Clinic researchers study health care reform
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Results of a Mayo Clinic survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that while physicians are open to being involved in health care reform discussions, some opposition may exist.
Physicians can lead health care reform through payment and delivery system reforms
May 20, 2009 |
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Physicians can and should play a leading role in achieving health care reform by working towards comprehensive reform of the way health care is paid for and delivered, helping achieve a guaranteed 1.5 percent annual savings ...
Pre-election surveys show deep concern about state of health care
Oct 30, 2008 |
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With only a few days remaining before Election Day, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation, writing for the November 6, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine, find that seven in ten ...
Mexican health care reform has been convoluted and ineffective
Aug 18, 2009 |
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A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and ha ...
Falling public support for health-care reform can be turned around
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Survey results published this week in the journal Health Affairs show that while only 27 percent of adults currently support the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's proposed healthcare legislation, an amended bill could gain ...
Nearly 6.4 million Californians lack health insurance, report shows
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Nearly one-fifth of all Californians under age 65 were without health insurance for all or some of 2007, according to a policy brief released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Private and public insurance choices could help pay for national health care reform
Jul 16, 2009 |
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As lawmakers debate how to pay for an overhaul of the nation's health care system, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund projects that including both private and public insurance choices in a new insurance exchange would ...
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