The Alliance For Health Reform: Cost of health care

The following is a list of briefings, documents, and publications that have been ranked by the Alliance for Health Reform in order of relevance, 10 being "Exclusively Related" to the issue, to 5 being "Somewhat Related" to the issue. Webcasts, transcripts and resource materials can be downloaded for each briefing listed.
Rank	Type	Description
10	Briefing	SCORING SAVINGS: How Can Quality Improvement Reduce Health Care Costs?, 7/13/2009 As the health reform debate heats up in summertime Washington, one key consideration is how to provide better value for the health care dollars spent. This briefing, cosponsored by the United Health Foundation, addressed questions such as: How can the private sector contribute to a slowing of national health care expenditures? Are there examples of models that have been implemented in the marketplace and have demonstrated they can save money? If incorporated into reform, how much of an impact would they have on the federal budget? Click Read More for webcast, podcast, speakers' PowerPoints and other downloadable resource materials.
10	Briefing	Lessons on Coverage from Abroad: How Do the Dutch, German and Swiss Health Care Systems Do It?, 11/14/2008 The pre-election debate put health care reform ideas front and center. Now policymakers have to deal with translating theory into action under challenging economic conditions. Why completely reinvent the wheel when there are existing universal coverage systems that may have components the U.S. can learn from? This briefing, cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, provided an in-depth look at the very different approaches of Switzerland, Germany and Holland to providing near-universal coverage to their citizens. How is coverage provided in each system? How successful is each in achieving maximum coverage? What are the roles of private insurance and government in each? What mechanisms are in place, if any, to help each system manage in difficult economic times? Panelists addressed these and related questions.
10	Briefing	Putting the Brakes on Health Care Costs: Would the Candidates’ Plans Work? Are There Better Solutions? , 6/3/2008 Would the health plans of Sens. Obama and McCain curb health care spending? Doubtful, said three respected health economists speaking at this briefing cosponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Other solutions offer more cost-cutting potential, speakers said.
10	Briefing	Private Financing and High-level Functioning: Some International Approaches to Health Reform, 4/11/2008 While the United States delivers some of the best medical care in the world, there are major inefficiencies in our system. We have high rates of medical errors, millions without health insurance coverage, and lower utilization of advanced health information technology than most western European nations. What can we learn about coverage patterns and health care costs in other countries that might help inform our choices in the U.S.? This briefing, cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, addressed these and related questions.
10	Briefing	Comparative Effectiveness: Can We Get Better Health Value for the Dollars We Spend?, 4/4/2008 Comparative effectiveness research holds out the tantalizing prospect of making it easier for patients and their doctors to choose the best treatment. Who should conduct such research -- government, the private sector or some combination? Who should decide which interventions to evaluate? Who will pay for it? This briefing, cosponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, addressed these and related questions.
10	Briefing	Healthcare and the Economic Slowdown: Medicaid, State Revenues and Federal Spending Plans, 2/15/2008 What is the relationship between Medicaid spending and the economy; and between Medicaid and state budgets? What impact did the 2003 federal Medicaid matching rate increase have on Medicaid coverage and state fiscal situations? What would be the likely impact of an increase in Medicaid funding in the current fiscal environment? How are proposed Medicaid and SCHIP changes in the president’s budget likely to affect these two public programs and state budgets? What other fiscal pressures are being felt by state Medicaid programs? This briefing, cosponsored by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, addressed these and related questions.
10	Briefing	Can We Contain Health Care Costs Without Compromising Quality?, 1/28/2008 With health care spending topping two trillion dollars in 2006, currently at 16 percent of gross domestic product and expected to rise to 20 percent by 2015, it is no surprise that most Americans are dissatisfied with the total cost of care. But who or what are the biggest culprits in a high cost system of care, and what can be done to contain costs? This briefing, sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and the Alliance, addressed these and related questions.
10	Briefing	Measuring up: A Comprehensive Scorecard for America's Health System, 10/11/2006 A new assessment by The Commonwealth Fund finds that deficiencies in the nation’s health care system cost 100,000 to 150,000 lives and $50 to $100 billion annually. The scorecard compares national averages for the U.S. to national and international benchmarks for 37 indicators. The U.S. received a composite score of 66 out of 100. On one quality measure, mortality, the U.S. ranked 14th out of 19 countries.
10	Briefing	BALANCING THE PROMISE AND COST OF BIOTECHNOLOGY , 9/22/2006 Biotechnology accounts for only one percent of insurers’ costs, but those costs are growing at a double digit rate. As science produces increasingly sophisticated and expensive medical products and procedures based on the manipulation of living organisms, payers will increasingly struggle with managing their use.
10	Briefing	UNDERSTANDING RESOLUTIONS, RECONCILIATION, and OTHER BUDGETARY RULES OF THE ROAD, 2/11/2005 What are the basic steps in the budget process, and how are budgetary levers used to shape health policy? Who are the key actors at the various stages of the process? If there is a reconciliation bill, how will it be considered in the House and in the Senate? And if there is an effort to reduce the deficit by half over five years, what might this mean for major health programs?
10	Briefing Transcript	Transcript, 5/24/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 122 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Transcript, 5/10/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 169 kb)
10	Document	Materials List, 5/10/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 34 kb)
10	Document	Sourcelist, 5/10/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 34 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Transcript, 5/7/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 141 kb)
10	Document	Event Summary, 4/16/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 27 kb)
10	Document	Dean Rosen Presentation, 4/16/2010 (PowerPoint: 1,319 kb)
10	Document	Karen Davis Presentation, 4/16/2010 (PowerPoint: 254 kb)
10	Document	Sara Collins Presentation, 4/16/2010 (PowerPoint: 312 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Affordability and Health Reform: If We Mandate, Will They (and Can They) Pay?, 11/20/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 228 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	SCORING SAVINGS: How Can Quality Improvement Reduce Health Care Costs?, 7/13/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 160 kb)
10	Document	SCORING SAVINGS: How Can Quality Improvement Reduce Health Care Costs?, 7/13/2009 (Word Document: 33 kb)
10	Document	Speaker Biographies, 7/13/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 33 kb)
10	Document	Scoring Savings Agenda, 7/13/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 32 kb)
10	Document	Lessons on Coverage from Abroad: How Do the Dutch, German and Swiss Health Care Systems Do It?, 11/14/2008 - Source: Microsoft Word (Word Document: 37 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Putting the Brakes on Health Care Costs: Would the Candidates' Plans Work?, 6/3/2008 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 207 kb)
10	Document	Two Distinct Approaches to Health Reform (Ed Howard), 6/3/2008 - Source: Ed Howard, Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 72 kb)
10	Briefing Transcript	Comparative Effectiveness: Can We Get Better Health Value for the Dollars We Spend?, 4/4/2008 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 176 kb)
10	Document	Agenda, 2/15/2008 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 19 kb)
10	Document	Selected Experts List, 8/29/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 49 kb)
10	Document	Speaker Biographies, 8/29/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 83 kb)
10	Document	Additional Sources - Crowd-Out and SCHIP, 8/29/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 86 kb)
10	Other Publication	Universal Health Insurance Coverage at Only $5,800 Per Family?, 10/27/2008 Dr. Uwe Reinhardt, one of the nation's most respected health economists, offers this assessment of Sen. John McCain tax credit idea for the purchase of individual health coverage. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 19 kb)
10	Toolkit	A Reporter's Toolkit: Health Care Costs, 11/27/2007 (Updated 8/1/2008) This toolkit, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will help you understand trends in U.S. health spending, and some of the reasons why spending is going up. We also cover some ideas for restraining health care costs. In addition, this resource offers story ideas, selected experts with contact information, selected websites, and a glossary. (Webpage: 2 kb)
10	Other Publication	La Cobertura de Temas de Salud, 10/1/2004 Written with journalists in mind, this 220-page book in Spanish is useful to anyone interested in health policy issues. Each chapter includes key facts, story ideas, expert sources and helpful websites. The book also includes a glossary of terms related to health coverage. (Other: 11 kb)
10	Other Publication	Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 8: Health Care Costs, 9/1/2004 This chapter from the Alliance sourcebook, “Covering Health Issues, 2004” presents key facts, background, story ideas, experts and websites on the subject of health care costs. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 311 kb)
10	Offsite Document	Bending the Curve: Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in US Health Spending, 12/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	Covering Health Issues, 5th Edition -- Updated, 6/1/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Unknown File Type)
10	Offsite Document	The Mississippi Delta's Healthcare Blues -- Noam Levey, 6/3/2010 - Source: Los Angeles Time (Unknown File Type)
9	Briefing	Affordability and Health Reform: If We Mandate, Will They (and Can They) Pay?, 11/20/2009 The health reform proposals being considered in the House and Senate may impose responsibilities on both individuals and employers to have, and help pay for, coverage. Subsidies for some small businesses and for individuals with incomes up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level have been proposed. But will individuals and businesses be able to pay the amounts required of them above the subsidies? This Nov. 20 briefing cosponsored by the Alliance and The Commonwealth Fund explored this question and related ones.
9	Briefing	Consumer Choice in Health Care: How Could Reform Affect Our Choices? How Could We Make Better Choices?, 6/25/2009 Now that health reform is being discussed in earnest on Capitol Hill, some wonder if we will be able to maintain our existing choices under a reformed health care system. Others maintain that our choices will grow, not shrink, as a result of reform, especially for the uninsured and the underinsured. Yet another viewpoint: Most Americans have choices now, but we don’t have enough information to make well-informed choices. This briefing, which was open to media only, brought together nationally known health policy experts for a conversation on consumer choice in health care. Cosponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
9	Briefing	Making the Case for Prevention: Tales from the Field, 6/19/2009 To improve the health of communities and the general population, an array of health reformers, states and businesses alike are all looking to a range of prevention measures such as chronic disease management, alcohol and smoking cessation, and obesity programs. The hope is that these measures will also improve value and control costs. What types of prevention models are working for business and government? What impact on health have prevention programs had? Does the evidence prove that prevention can cut costs? What emphasis should be placed on community vs. clinical prevention? What improvements need to be made in public health infrastructure, workforce and training to improve prevention efforts? To discuss these recommendations and questions, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a June 19 briefing.
9	Briefing	Pathways to Universal Coverage: Payment Reform Strategies for Containing Costs, 3/20/2009 Provider payment policy is a hot topic again with the Medicare physician payment system due for a fix and value-based payment and other cost containment/quality schemes on the table as part of the health reform debate. This briefing sponsored by the Alliance and The Commonwealth Fund examined cost containment options in payment reform.
9	Briefing	Helping 125 Million Americans: Improving Care for Chronic Conditions, 3/28/2008 An estimated 125 million individuals in the United States have a chronic illness, disability or functional limitation. Chronic diseases are the number one cause of death and disability in the United States and account for three quarters of the nation’s health spending. What models for improving care coordination exist and how can they be more widely implemented? Is there evidence that improved treatment of chronic care can reduce costs? Or increase costs? This briefing, cosponsored with Novartis and the National Institute for Health Care Management, addresses these and related questions.
9	Briefing	Health Care in the 2008 Elections: Where Do the Candidates Stand on Promoting a High-Performance Health System?, 3/14/2008 This event featured advocates for the health plans of Sens. Clinton, Obama and McCain describing key features of their candidates' plans and how the plans differ. A leadoff presentation by Sara Collins of The Commonwealth Fund offered the Fund's guidance for health reform proposals, with estimates of future savings if efficiencies proposed by the Fund were to be combined with universal health coverage. Cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund.
9	Briefing	Treatment of Severe Chronic Illness: What Explains Cost and Quality Variations? Should We Be Concerned?, 9/8/2006 Some Medicare beneficiaries receive significantly more hospital-based services during the last two years of life than do other beneficiaries. The number of physician visits for Medicare beneficiaries can also vary greatly. What accounts for this variation? Do patients receiving more services tend to get better care, or not? Should policymakers take steps to more closely examine the relationship between spending and the volume of services provided at different facilities?
9	Briefing	Beyond the $10 Aspirin: How Well Does Our Hospital Financing System Work? , 1/24/2006 Across the country, hospitals are both a critical part of the U.S. health care safety net and a powerful economic engine. Should there be greater transparency regarding hospital costs and charges? Looking ahead, what does the trend in opening specialty hospitals mean for hospital spending, costs, payments and charges? Is there any clear relationship between what hospitals are paid for services and quality of care?
9	Briefing	CARING FOR THE ELDERLY: Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 The costs of caring for the elderly have been growing steadily higher. Spending on Medicare benefits accounted for 17 percent of the nation’s total health care spending in 2004. With baby boomers retiring, and Medicare benefits changing, this percentage is expected to grow in the future. How concerned should we really be with rising health care costs, especially costs connected with the care of older people? Will new technologies create efficiencies that will dramatically reduce costs, or will technologies raise demand for care and thus drive cost increases?
9	Briefing	HEALTH CARE in the 2006 BUDGET: What’s Next? What to Watch for in the Coming Debates, 2/18/2005 President Bush’s FY 2006 budget could have long-lasting effects on several health programs. If enacted as is, the budget would trim $60 billion in the growth in Medicaid spending over the next 10 years. At the same time, the budget offers $11 billion in new money to enroll children in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. It would provide $74 billion in tax incentives to help the uninsured buy coverage. Some congressional budget leaders have signaled their intention to find budget savings in another entitlement program – Medicare. After the hearings are over and the votes taken, how many of the president’s health initiatives will remain? What budget proposals originating with Congress might be adopted? How will discretionary programs – like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health – be affected? What are the long-term implications for health care providers and consumers, and for the deficit?
9	Document	Stuart Guterman Presentation, 5/10/2010 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (PowerPoint: 313 kb)
9	Document	Agenda, 5/10/2010 (Word Document: 32 kb)
9	Document	Speaker Biographies, 5/10/2010 (Word Document: 34 kb)
9	Document	Nick Wolter Presentation, 5/10/2010 - Source: Billings Clinic (PowerPoint: 1,613 kb)
9	Document	Gary Claxton Presentation, 4/30/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (PowerPoint: 202 kb)
9	Document	Rachel Nuzum's Presentation, 7/31/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 228 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Consumer Choice in Health Care, 6/25/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 127 kb)
9	Document	Selected Experts, 6/19/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 93 kb)
9	Document	Making the Case for Prevention: Tales from the Field, 6/19/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 52 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Making the Case for Prevention: Tales from the Field, 6/19/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 165 kb)
9	Document	Guterman Presentation, 3/20/2009 - Source: Powerpoint (PowerPoint: 432 kb)
9	Document	Berenson Presentation, 3/20/2009 - Source: Powerpoint (PowerPoint: 68 kb)
9	Document	Hamory Presentation, 3/20/2009 - Source: Powerpoint (PowerPoint: 664 kb)
9	Document	Nielsen Presentation, 3/20/2009 - Source: Powerpoint (PowerPoint: 5,027 kb)
9	Document	Policy Points: The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System, 3/20/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 249 kb)
9	Document	Reforming Provider Payment: Essential Building Block for Health Reform, 3/20/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 229 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Pathways to Universal Coverage: Payment Reform Strategies for Containing Costs, 3/20/2009 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 174 kb)
9	Document	Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments, 12/17/2008 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,094 kb)
9	Document	Reinhard Busse Presentation, 11/14/2008 - Source: Powerpoint (PowerPoint: 2,566 kb)
9	Document	Robert Leu Presentation, 11/14/2008 - Source: Powerpoint (PowerPoint: 355 kb)
9	Document	Employers protesting upcoming health care assessment, 8/13/2008 - Source: The Patriot Ledger (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 14 kb)
9	Document	Materials List, 5/30/2008 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 117 kb)
9	Document	“Candidates’ Health-Care Ideas May Not Offer Immediate Cure”, 4/28/2008 - Source: The Wall Street Journal (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 26 kb)
9	Document	Single-Payer Utopia? (Response to Marcia Angell), 4/25/2008 - Source: Galen Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 98 kb)
9	Document	Sourcelist, 4/11/2008 - Source: Microsoft Word (Word Document: 52 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Helping 125 Million Americans: Improving Care for Chronic Conditions, 3/28/2008 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 215 kb)
9	Document	What are the Presidential Candidates Saying about CE Research in Their Health Care Plans?, 3/26/2008 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 74 kb)
9	Document	How Healthy is this Alliance?, 3/24/2008 - Source: Boston Globe (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 60 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Health Care in the 2008 Elections, 3/14/2008 - Source: Kaisernetwork (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 217 kb)
9	Document	Sara Collins Presentation, 3/14/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (PowerPoint: 204 kb)
9	Document	List of Experts, 3/14/2008 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 105 kb)
9	Document	Speaker Biographies, 3/14/2008 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 34 kb)
9	Document	Can MCOs Partner with Manufacturers for Comparative Effectiveness Research?, 3/1/2008 - Source: American Journal of Managed Care (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 135 kb)
9	Document	Hillary Clinton's Healthcare Costs Agenda, 3/1/2008 - Source: Hillary Clinton for President Campaign Website (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 167 kb)
9	Document	John McCain's Straight Talk on Health Care Reform, 3/1/2008 - Source: John McCain for President Campaign Website (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 211 kb)
9	Document	Barack Obama's Plan for a Healthy America (Excerpted), 3/1/2008 - Source: Barack Obama for President Campaign Website (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 79 kb)
9	Document	John Holahan - Medicaid, SCHIP, and the Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Responses, 2/15/2008 - Source: The Urban Institute (PowerPoint: 302 kb)
9	Document	Jim Frogue - Medicaid Spending and the Open Source Solution, 2/15/2008 - Source: Center for Health Transformation (PowerPoint: 187 kb)
9	Document	Barbara Edwards - Health Care and the Economic Slowdown, 2/15/2008 - Source: National Association of State Medicaid Directors (PowerPoint: 53 kb)
9	Document	2009 Health Care Budget, 2/4/2008 - Source: White House Office of Management and Budget (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 415 kb)
9	Document	20 States Face Total Budget Shortfall of At Least $34 Billion in 2009, 2/1/2008 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 70 kb)
9	Document	Creating a Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, 2/1/2008 - Source: American Institutes for Research/MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 348 kb)
9	Document	Expert List, 1/28/2008 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 106 kb)
9	Document	Cathy Schoen - Speaker Presentation, 1/28/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (PowerPoint: 74 kb)
9	Document	Katherine Baicker - Speaker Presentation, 1/28/2008 - Source: Harvard School of Public Health and NBER (PowerPoint: 1,945 kb)
9	Document	Peter Orszag - Speaker Presentation, 1/28/2008 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (PowerPoint: 982 kb)
9	Document	Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation - Report Brief, 1/24/2008 - Source: Institute of Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,492 kb)
9	Document	Economic Recession Could Propel Health Overhaul, 1/22/2008 - Source: CQ HealthBeat (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 22 kb)
9	Document	RSC Policy Brief: Medicaid Funding Issues, 1/22/2008 - Source: Republican Study Committee (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 114 kb)
9	Document	Health Spending Exceeded Record 2 Trillion in 2006, 1/8/2008 - Source: The New York Times (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 20 kb)
9	Document	Variability in Health Treatment Costs Amongst Nine EU Countries, 1/8/2008 - Source: Health Economics (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 110 kb)
9	Document	National Health Expenditure Accounts: 2006 Highlights, 1/1/2008 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 80 kb)
9	Document	Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments, 12/1/2007 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,094 kb)
9	Document	The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending, 11/1/2007 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 508 kb)
9	Document	The Complexities of Comparative Effectiveness, 10/25/2007 - Source: Biotechnology Industry Organization (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 273 kb)
9	Document	Government-Funded Comparative Effectiveness Research, 10/24/2007 - Source: Advanced Medical Technology Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 115 kb)
9	Document	Blue Perspective: Improving Health Care Value, 9/24/2007 - Source: BlueCross BlueShield Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 46 kb)
9	Document	Essential Elements of a Technology and Outcomes Assessment Initiative, 9/19/2007 - Source: JAMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 64 kb)
9	Document	Orszag - Presentation to the Alliance for Health Reform, 8/29/2007 - Source: Congressionl Budget Office (PowerPoint: 140 kb)
9	Document	Estimate of the Effects on Direct Spending and Revenues of the CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2007, 7/26/2007 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 60 kb)
9	Document	Getting Better Value for Our Health Spending, 7/1/2007 - Source: National Institute for Health Care Management (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 111 kb)
9	Document	Setting a Higher Bar: Improving Quality and Safety in Health Care, 4/19/2007 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 252 kb)
9	Document	National Spending for Long-Term Care, 2/2/2007 - Source: Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 232 kb)
9	Document	Cash and Counseling in an International Context, 2/1/2007 - Source: Health Services Research (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 71 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Transcript: Measuring Up: A Comprehensive Scorecard for America's Health System, 10/11/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 210 kb)
9	Document	Barry Straube Presentation, 9/8/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 131 kb)
9	Document	Elliot Fisher's Presentation, 9/8/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 483 kb)
9	Document	Sam Nussbuaum's Presentation, 9/8/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,545 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Transcript: Treatment of Severe Chronic Illness, 9/8/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 208 kb)
9	Document	Premium Assistance in Medicaid and SCHIP: Ace in the Hole or House of Cards?, 7/17/2006 - Source: National Health Policy Forum (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 184 kb)
9	Document	Steven Morgan Presentation: Well-Designed Drug Review Processes Can Improve Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006 - Source: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, U. of British Columbia (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 383 kb)
9	Document	P. Kanavos Presentation: The European Experience in Drug Policy, Efficiency & Cost Containment, 6/23/2006 - Source: London School of Economics (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 485 kb)
9	Document	The U.S. Health Care Divide: Disparities in Primary Care Experiences by Income, 4/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 216 kb)
9	Document	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Update on the Quality of American Health Care , 4/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 191 kb)
9	Document	Premium Assistance Programs: How Are They Financed and Do States Save Money? , 10/1/2005 - Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 727 kb)
9	Document	Medicaid Responsiveness, Health Coverage, and Economic Resilience: A Preliminary Analysis, 9/27/2005 - Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,074 kb)
9	Briefing Transcript	Understanding Resolutions, Reconciliation and Other Budgetary Rules of the Road, 2/11/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 172 kb)
9	Document	2005 International Symposium on Health Care Policy: Descriptions of Health Care Systems, 1/1/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 136 kb)
9	Document	Consumer-Driven Health Care: Lessons From Switzerland, 9/8/2004 - Source: JAMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 117 kb)
9	Document	Issue Brief - Transitional Care for Older Adults: A Cost Effective Model, 5/1/2004 - Source: Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 53 kb)
9	Issue Brief	Comparative Effectiveness: Better Value for the Money?, 8/8/2008 Comparative effectiveness research offers the attractive prospect of cutting costs while improving the quality of health care. What exactly do comparative effectiveness studies compare? What research of this type is already underway in the U.S. and in other countries? What could we do to stimulate more of it? This issue brief, written by Alliance senior health policy associate Lisa Swirsky, addresses these questions and others. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 129 kb)
9	Issue Brief	Employer-Sponsored Coverage: Shape It Up? Ship It Out?, 4/29/2008 Employer-sponsored coverage rates have been steadily falling, from 68 percent of non-elderly Americans in 2000 to 62 percent in 2006. Experts cite rising premium costs and workforce changes as factors driving the erosion in such coverage. A new Alliance issue brief, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers perspective on why this trend is happening and how alarmed we should be. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 217 kb)
9	Offsite Document	Herceptin - UK Employers Should Prepare for Rise in Healthcare Costs, 6/22/2006 - Source: Mercer Human Resource Consulting (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	2009 Budget in Brief, 2/4/2008 - Source: Department of Health and Human Services (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Bush Seeks Surplus Via Medicare Cuts, 1/31/2008 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Strategies to Help States Address Increased Expenditures During Economic Downturns, 10/1/2005 - Source: Government Accountability Office Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Testimony of Dennis Smith Before House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 11/1/2007 - Source: Department of Health and Human Services (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Hillary Clinton's Health Care Costs Agenda, 3/1/2008 - Source: HillaryClinton.com (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Testimony of Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 6/12/2007 - Source: Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Ways and Means (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Testimony of Gail Shearer, Consumers Union, 6/12/2007 - Source: Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Ways and Means (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Comparison Shopping, 1/10/2008 - Source: The Economist (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	A Test of Bad Health (Op-Ed), 10/18/2007 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The War on (Expensive) Drugs (Op-Ed), 8/30/2007 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Massachusetts Health Care Praised, But Struggles with Cost, 4/28/2008 - Source: PBS NewsHour (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Revisiting Massachusetts Health Reform: 18 Months Later, 12/1/2007 - Source: Community Catalyst Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	CBO Testimony on Growth in Health Care Costs, 1/31/2008 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	2008 Milliman Medical Index, 5/1/2008 - Source: Milliman, Inc. (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Insurance Cost, 5/1/2008 - Source: National Coalition on Health Care (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?, 9/1/2005 - Source: RAND Corporation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Rising Health Care Costs Lead Workers to Delay Retirement, 5/14/2008 - Source: Urban Institute (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Addressing Rising Health Care Costs — A View from the Congressional Budget Office, 11/8/2007 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Challenge of Rising Health Care Costs — A View from the Congressional Budget Office, 11/1/2007 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Medicare’s Bad News: Is Anyone Listening?, 4/16/2008 - Source: American Enterprise Institute (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs, 4/3/2008 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Financing for Massachusetts Preserves Health Plan , 10/1/2008 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform in Massachusetts — Expanding Coverage, Escalating Costs, 6/26/2008 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Massachusetts Health Reform: High Costs and Expanding Expectations May Weaken Employer Support, 10/30/2008 - Source: Center for Studying Health System Change (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Small Business Owners Say Cutting Health Care Costs, Need for Reform are Top Concerns, 12/3/2008 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	U.S. ‘Not Getting What We Pay For’, 11/30/2008 - Source: Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	What Price Universal Health Coverage? For Many Small Employers, Any Price is Too High, 10/21/2008 - Source: Mercer Consulting, U.S. (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Care Opinion Leaders’ Views on Payment System Reform, 11/3/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System, 2/19/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Getting What We Pay For: Innovations Lacking in Provider Payment Reform for Chronic Disease, 6/30/2008 - Source: Center for Studying Health System Change (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Taking Stock of Pay-For-Performance: A Candid Assessment From The Front Lines, 3/1/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Ending the Physician Payment Crisis: Another Reason for Major Medicare Reform, 5/20/2008 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Healthcare Payment Reform: From Principle to Action, 6/23/2008 - Source: Healthcare Financial Management Association (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Healthcare Payment Reform: Creating conditions for More Efficient Health Delivery, 4/10/2008 - Source: Health Industry Forum Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Testimony of Nancy Nielsen, 9/11/2008 - Source: House Committee on Ways and Means (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Physician Services Payment System, 10/8/2008 - Source: MedPAC Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Report to the Congress: Fact sheet, 2/27/2009 - Source: MedPAC Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform Requires Accountable Care Systems, 7/2/2008 - Source: Journal of the American Medical Association (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Collective Accountability for Medical Care – Toward Bundled Medicare Payments, 7/3/2008 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Beyond Pay for Performance – Emerging Models of Provider-Payment Reform, 9/18/2008 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	From Volume to Value: Transforming Health Care Payment and Delivery Systems to Improve Quality , 7/31/2008 - Source: Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Testimony of Robert Berenson “Aligning Incentives: The Case for Delivery System Reform”, 9/16/2008 - Source: Senate Finance Committee (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Innovations in Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions: What's Working in the Real World, 6/1/2010 - Source: Center for Studying Health System Change Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	The Baucus Plan: Implications for Small- and Medium-Sized Firms, 10/20/2009 - Source: Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	The Burden of Health Care Costs for Working Families — Implications for Reform, 7/30/2009 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Allowing Multiple Insurance Exchanges in a Single Area Would Make it Harder to Obtain Affordable, Good-Quality Coverage, 7/8/2009 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Effects of Increased Patient Cost Sharing on Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Care, 4/29/2008 - Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Evidence That Value-Based Insurance Can Be Effective, 1/21/2010 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Outlook for Consumer/Patient Engagement in Health Care—30 Years into the Experiment, 3/1/2009 - Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Chronic Conditions Account For Rise In Medicare Spending From 1987 To 2006, 2/18/2010 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Tough Love, Lower Health Costs, 10/22/2009 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	California Hospitals, Insurers Trying Out New Bundled Payment Pricing System, 4/26/2010 - Source: California Healthline (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s Plan to Lower Health Care Costs and Ensure Affordable, Accessible , 8/26/2008 - Source: BarackObama.com Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	The Politics of Paying for Health Reform: Zombies, Payroll Taxes, and the Holy Grail, 10/21/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Care Cost Monitor blog, 6/25/2009 - Source: The Hastings Center (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget, 6/16/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	High and rising health care costs: Demystifying U.S. health care spending , 10/1/2008 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	How Safeway is Cutting Healthcare Costs, 6/12/2009 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Alternative Paths to a High Performance U.S. Health System: Impact of Three Approaches, 6/24/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Financing Health Reform: A Plan to Ensure the Cost of Reform is Budget-Neutral, 6/1/2009 - Source: Center for American Progress (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Finding Resources for Health Care Reform and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve, 6/1/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Options for Financing Health Reform: Comparing the Impact of Selected Policy Options, 6/24/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Statement of Professor Jonathan Gruber in Senate Finance Committee, 5/12/2009 - Source: Senate Finance Committee Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	How Can We Pay for Health Reform?, 7/14/2009 - Source: Urban Institute Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget, 6/16/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Options for Financing Health Reform: Comparing the Impact of Selected Policy Options, 6/18/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Why is U.S. Health Care So Costly?, 7/26/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Finding Resources for Health Reform and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve, 7/2/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Financing Health Care Reform: 2009 vs. 2003, 8/28/2009 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
9	Offsite Document	Health Surcharge Would Not Affect 96% of Small Businesses, 7/20/2009 - Source: House Ways and Means Committee Staff Adobe Acrobat PDF
9	Offsite Document	Preliminary Analysis of the House Democrats’ Health Reform Proposal, 7/18/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog (Unknown File Type)
8	Briefing	The $174 Billion Question: How to Reduce Diabetes and Obesity, 7/23/2010 Diabetes and obesity have evolved from a national public health concern to a problem of epidemic proportions -- a very costly problem. The direct medical costs and the indirect costs of diabetes are estimated at $174 billion yearly. This briefing looked at the scope of the problem, and some promising solutions. Sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the United Health Foundation.
8	Briefing	Better Care - Lower Costs: Exploring the Promise of Patient Engagement, 3/5/2010 Engaging consumers more directly in their care may improve health outcomes and help control the costs of care. This program focused on the potential for changing consumer behavior to promote the use of effective interventions and discourage unnecessary care. Cosponsored by the AARP Public Policy Institute.
8	Briefing	Workplace Wellness Programs, Healthy Behaviors and Health Reform, 12/7/2009 Unhealthy behavior is costing America billions in health care expenditures, and making us less healthy as a people. Many large employers, recognizing the impact on the health of their workers and the companies’ bottom lines, offer financial incentives to their employees to exercise regularly, improve their diets, lose weight and quit smoking, among other things. In the course of the health reform debate, the issue has arisen: which behaviors or health outcomes should be encouraged, and how large should the incentives be? What types of prevention models are working for business to keep workers healthier and restrain health costs? To answer these questions and others, the Alliance for Health Reform and AARP sponsored a December 7 briefing.
8	Briefing	Expanding Access to Care: More than Just an Insurance Card?, 8/10/2009 Health care access, particularly access to primary care, is on the minds of all who are following health reform efforts in Congress. President Obama and Democrats and Republicans from both houses agree that any reform plan must increase access. But how can that goal be accomplished, particularly in a time when reducing health care costs and increasing quality are also priorities? What provisions exist in the health reform proposals that speak directly to expanding access to health care? To address these and related questions, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored an Aug. 10 briefing. Click Read More for webcast, podcast, speakers' PowerPoints and other downloadable resource materials.
8	Briefing	Show Me the Money: Options for Financing Health Reform, 7/31/2009 As the key congressional committees draft health reform legislation, they are keenly mindful of the costs of various provisions. Congress will look to an array of options, including both savings from the health care system and new revenues, to finance coverage expansions and reforms to both the delivery system and insurance markets. What options hold the most promise? How do the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) go about “scoring” various financing options? Are there credible options for financing reform? Is there room for bipartisan cooperation in paying for reform? To address these and related questions, the Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund sponsored a July 31 briefing. Click Read More for webcast, podcast, speakers' PowerPoints and other downloadable resource materials.
8	Briefing	Health Reform Do’s and Don’ts: Veterans of the Early 90s’ Health Reform Debate Offer Advice to Today’s Reformers, 12/12/2007 To offer guidance to today’s health reformers and reporters covering today’s reform efforts, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a December 12 briefing featuring veterans of the 1990s reform debates.
8	Briefing	Employer-Based Coverage: Shore It Up or Ship It Out?, 9/21/2007 Employer-sponsored coverage rates have been steadily falling, from 66 percent of non-elderly Americans in 2000 to slightly below 60 percent in 2006. Experts cite rising premium costs and workforce changes as factors driving the erosion in such coverage. What are the pros and cons of employer-sponsored coverage? Who is losing coverage and why? Is it possible to maintain or improve health coverage for employees and also prevent jobs from moving overseas? This briefing, sponsored by the Alliance and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, explored these and related questions.
8	Briefing	HEALTH CARE and the '08 ELECTION: A Preview, 7/10/2007 As presidential candidates of both major parties woo the American public, particularly in early caucus and primary states, they are gravitating toward a common public concern: the U.S. health care system. Potential voters are well aware of rising premiums and higher out of pocket costs to families, the impact of high health care costs on America’s economic competitiveness and on federal and state budgets, and the ever-growing number of uninsured – now nearly 45 million. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released in March shows that health care ranks as the second most important issue that the public would like discussed by presidential candidates for the 2008 election.
8	Briefing	Health Legislation 2007-2008: What's Possible?, 12/13/2006 Suddenly, Capitol Hill is talking about health issues again. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises that Democrats will roll back the prohibition against the federal government negotiating drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. (A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released today found broad bipartisan support for this idea.) Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says one of his three top priorities will be more funding for stem cell research. Others want to revisit the importation of prescription drugs from Canada. Additionally, the 110th Congress will consider whether to continue the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in its present form.
8	Briefing	Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage: Policies and Practices Across Several Health Systems, 6/23/2006 The Medicare prescription drug program offers coverage for prescription drugs through competing private plans, within a framework established by law and through rules established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In contrast, other countries, including Australia, the UK, and Canada, provide similar prescription drug programs, but within different regulatory structures. How do these countries decide which drugs will be approved and included in their prescription drug programs for the elderly and disabled?
8	Briefing	Medicare Advantage: Early Views and Trendspotting, 5/19/2006 The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 made a number of changes to the Medicare managed care program – Medicare Advantage. Among the aims: Keep managed care plans from leaving the program by offering higher payments, and give beneficiaries more reasons to consider joining. Is the Medicare Advantage program now growing again after a period of declining enrollment? Are additional changes to payments for Medicare managed care plans warranted?
8	Briefing	Where Are HSAs and High-Deductible Health Plans Headed?, 3/10/2006 Health savings accounts (HSAs) offered in conjunction with high-deductible health plans are on an upswing nationally. What impact do HSAs have on the individual and group health insurance markets? How much would proposed changes encourage the purchase of high-deductible plans paired with HSAs? How would this affect overall health spending? What impact would the spread of HSAs have on the number of uninsured Americans?
8	Briefing	TOWARD A HIGH PERFORMANCE HEALTH SYSTEM: Public-Private Efforts to Make Health Care Safer and More Effective, 10/3/2005 It is clear that by many measures, Americans are not receiving commensurate value for the health care dollars they spend. Is it possible to simultaneously improve health coverage and quality, while generating savings for health care consumers, employers, government and health care providers? What are the characteristics of a high performance health system? What realistic steps does the private sector need to take, contrasted with government bodies, to move the U.S. toward such a system?
8	Briefing	HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Here, Now and Tomorrow, 9/16/2005 Wider use of health information technology has been touted as one way to improve the quality of care and reduce medical errors, while reducing the continued rapid growth of health care spending. Providers across the country are already adopting new health IT systems, and many patients have welcomed the trend. What are the latest developments in private-sector systems linking providers across different health care settings? What should the federal government’s role be in identifying barriers and opportunities for the health IT systems, in the face of privacy and security concerns? What are analysts saying about projected costs and savings associated with the implementation and widespread use of electronic medical records?
8	Briefing	WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE: Conducting Reviews of Pharmaceuticals in Four Countries, 4/22/2005 Publicly funded health programs, large employers and managed care plans all are working to learn more about how the costs and benefits of one drug compare with those of another. At the same time, these payers of health care want to make sure that their beneficiaries have access to new pharmaceuticals that offer measurable improvements over older products. What evidence gets reviewed in deciding (or recommending) whether a drug gets covered? How open to public scrutiny is the review process? Which stakeholders are most closely involved? Are decisions ever revisited or reversed? How do review methods differ among different countries?
8	Briefing	The Reality and Potential of Evidence-Based Medicine, 1/12/2005 Evidence-based medicine offers a win-win proposition: improve the quality and effectiveness of care while at the same time identifying opportunities to reduce waste of valuable health care resources. But what evidence should employers, health care providers and consumers pay attention to? And how should this information be disseminated to those who need it?
8	Document	Event Summary, 5/10/2010 (Word Document: 29 kb)
8	Document	Christopher Koller Presentation, 4/30/2010 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (PowerPoint: 592 kb)
8	Document	Juy Hibbard Presentation, 3/5/2010 (PowerPoint: 2,616 kb)
8	Document	Chad Boult Presentation, 3/5/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 508 kb)
8	Document	Don Kemper Presentation, 3/5/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 4,753 kb)
8	Document	Mike Sokol Presentation, 3/5/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 637 kb)
8	Document	Source List, 3/4/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
8	Document	Speaker Biographies, 3/4/2010 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 31 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Transcript, 1/21/2010 (Word Document: 209 kb)
8	Document	The Health Insurance Provision of the 2009 Congressional Health Reform Bills: Implications for Coverage, Affordability and Cost, 1/7/2010 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 427 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Getting the Most Bang for Our Post-Health Reform Buck: Enrolling and Retaining Everyone Who’s Eligible, 12/1/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 228 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Expanding Access to Care: More than Just an Insurance Card?, 8/10/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 198 kb)
8	Document	Expanding Access to Care: More than Just an Insurance Card? , 8/10/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 72 kb)
8	Document	Deborah Devaux's Presentation, 8/10/2009 (PowerPoint: 334 kb)
8	Document	Sharon Long's Presentation, 8/10/2009 (PowerPoint: 438 kb)
8	Document	Susan Dentzer's Presentation, 8/10/2009 (PowerPoint: 807 kb)
8	Document	Nancy Dickey's Presentation, 8/10/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,991 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Show Me the Money: Options for Financing Health Reform, 7/31/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 216 kb)
8	Document	Show Me the Money: Options for Financing Health Reform, 7/31/2009 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 62 kb)
8	Document	Bill Hoagland's Presentation, 7/31/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 431 kb)
8	Document	Uwe Reinhardt's Presentation, 7/31/2009 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (PowerPoint: 908 kb)
8	Document	Testimony of J. Randall MacDonald Senior VP for Human Resources IBM Corporation, 6/19/2009 - Source: Testimony - Ways and Means Committee (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 89 kb)
8	Document	The Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Change the Nations Health Insurance System, 5/27/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 109 kb)
8	Document	Ounces of Prevention -- The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages, 4/22/2009 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 369 kb)
8	Document	In the Balance, 4/8/2008 - Source: The Washington Post (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 29 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist, 4/4/2008 (Word Document: 44 kb)
8	Document	“Employers favor private-industry reforms to maintain an employer-based system”, 4/1/2008 - Source: Employer Benefit News (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 37 kb)
8	Document	Massachusetts Health Care Reform is Pioneer Effort, But Complications Remain, 3/18/2008 - Source: Annals of Internal Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 86 kb)
8	Document	The Science of Improvement, 3/12/2008 - Source: JAMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 58 kb)
8	Document	Presidential Candidates on Health Care, 2/22/2008 - Source: The Brookings Institution (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 178 kb)
8	Document	Health Coverage Tax Credits: A Small Program Offering Large Policy Lessons, 2/1/2008 - Source: The Urban Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 98 kb)
8	Document	The Road to Universal Coverage, 1/9/2008 - Source: The Wall Street Journal (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 71 kb)
8	Document	Do Individual Mandates Matter?, 1/1/2008 - Source: The Urban Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 19 kb)
8	Document	The High Cost of Health Care, 11/25/2007 - Source: The New York Times (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 34 kb)
8	Document	A High Performance Health System in the US: An Ambitious Agenda for the Next President, 11/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 995 kb)
8	Document	Collins - Why Universal Health Insurance is Necessary for a High Performance Health System, 10/26/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (PowerPoint: 375 kb)
8	Document	Haase - California: Riding the Wave to Universal Coverage?, 10/26/2007 - Source: New America Foundation's California Program (PowerPoint: 3,223 kb)
8	Document	Iselin - Health Care Reform: Massachusetts One Year Later, 10/26/2007 - Source: Massachusetts Divison of Health Care Finance and Policy (PowerPoint: 257 kb)
8	Document	Miller - Universal Coverage: Curb Your Enthusiasm, 10/26/2007 - Source: American Enterprise Institute (PowerPoint: 1,591 kb)
8	Document	Torregrossa - Prescription for Pennsylvania, 10/26/2007 - Source: Pennsylvania Governor's Office (PowerPoint: 454 kb)
8	Document	A Roadmap to Health Insurance for All: Principles for Reform, 10/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 499 kb)
8	Document	Trends in Health Care Costs and Spending, 9/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 529 kb)
8	Document	Trautwein - Alliance for Health Reform Briefing on Crowd-Out, 8/29/2007 - Source: National Association of Health Underwriters (PowerPoint: 415 kb)
8	Document	Kohler - Crowd-Out in New Jersey FamilyCare, 8/29/2007 - Source: New Jersey Department of Human Services (PowerPoint: 27 kb)
8	Document	Dubay - Crowd-Out Under SCHIP: Looking Back and Moving Forward, 8/29/2007 - Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PowerPoint: 617 kb)
8	Document	CMS SHO#07-001 - Letter from Dennis G. Smith Re: SCHIP, 8/17/2007 - Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 81 kb)
8	Document	Public Perceptions of SCHIP, 8/1/2007 - Source: Public Opinion Strategies (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 132 kb)
8	Document	Statement of Administration Policy (H.R. 3162), 8/1/2007 - Source: White House Office of Management and Budget (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 37 kb)
8	Document	Statement of Administration Policy (S. 1893), 7/30/2007 - Source: White House Office of Management and Budget (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 32 kb)
8	Document	Advancing Quality Improvement Research: Challenges and Opportunities--Workshop Summary, 6/15/2007 - Source: National Academy of Sciences (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 563 kb)
8	Document	Managing Medical Resources, 6/13/2007 - Source: JAMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 67 kb)
8	Document	SCHIP Premium Assistance FAQ, 6/1/2007 - Source: National Association of Health Underwriters (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 45 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Which Treatment Works Better? A Look at Ways to Improve the Quality of Medical Decisions, 4/27/2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 210 kb)
8	Document	Statement of Genevieve Kenney before Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, 4/4/2007 - Source: The Urban Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 73 kb)
8	Document	U.S. Healthcare Politics Poll, 3/1/2007 - Source: CBS News/New York Times (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 127 kb)
8	Document	Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions, 3/1/2007 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 854 kb)
8	Document	New Study Shows Medicaid Spending Growth Can Be Sustained by Expected Increases in Government R, 2/23/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Word Document: 36 kb)
8	Document	CRS Report for Congress: Pay-for-performance in Health Care, 12/12/2006 - Source: Congression Research Service (CRS) (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 189 kb)
8	Document	Value-Based Coverage Policy in the United States and the United Kingdom, 11/29/2006 - Source: National Health Policy Forum (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 173 kb)
8	Document	TL: Early Experience with Pay-for-Performance: From Concept to Practice, 10/12/2006 - Source: Journal of the American Medical Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 60 kb)
8	Document	Cassel Presentation: Measuring Up: A comprehensive Scorecard for America's Health System, 10/11/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 430 kb)
8	Document	Schoen Presentation: Measuring Up: A comprehensive Scorecard for America's Health System, 10/11/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 150 kb)
8	Document	Miller Presentation: Measuring Up: A comprehensive Scorecard for America's Health System, 10/11/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 24 kb)
8	Document	SCHIP's Financial Structure, 10/1/2006 - Source: Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,331 kb)
8	Document	Robinson Presentation: Balancing the Promise and Cost of Biotechnology, 9/22/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 81 kb)
8	Document	Tunis Presentation: Balancing the Promise and Cost of Biotechnology, 9/22/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 168 kb)
8	Document	Source List: Treatment of Severe Chronic Illness, 9/8/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
8	Document	Too high a price for life, 8/15/2006 - Source: The Associated Press (Word Document: 42 kb)
8	Document	Framework for a High Performance Health System for the United States, 8/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 176 kb)
8	Document	Policy Approaches to Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in European Countries, 6/23/2006 - Source: Panos Kanavos, London School of Economics and Political Science (Word Document: 107 kb)
8	Document	Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program, 6/1/2006 - Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 5,042 kb)
8	Document	Instability of Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children and Their Families, 6/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 345 kb)
8	Document	Biotechnology Faces Cost Challenges in Consumer-Driven Healthcare Environment, 5/1/2006 - Source: Tom Morrow, Journal of Managed Care Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 139 kb)
8	Document	PROMETHEUS: Provider Payment for High Quality Care: A White Paper- Executive Summary, 5/1/2006 - Source: Prometheus (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 306 kb)
8	Document	Medicare Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs: Are Medicare Advantage Plans a Better Deal?, 5/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 241 kb)
8	Document	High cost for health insurance: Massachusetts plan would run billions more in California, 4/27/2006 - Source: San Francisco Chronicle (Word Document: 36 kb)
8	Document	The Health Care May Be (Almost) Universal, But No So the Kudos, 4/17/2006 - Source: Congressional Quarterly Health Beat (Word Document: 26 kb)
8	Document	Bill of Health, 4/10/2006 - Source: Arnold Kling, The CATO Institute (Word Document: 29 kb)
8	Document	Health bill premiums may exceed predictions: Ability of some to pay at issue, 4/6/2006 - Source: Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe (Word Document: 38 kb)
8	Document	Memo: Massachusetts-Style Coverage Expansion: What Would It Cost in California?, 4/1/2006 - Source: Institute for Health Policy Solutions (Word Document: 29 kb)
8	Document	Executive Summary: Massachusetts-Style Coverage Expansion: What Would It Cost in California?, 4/1/2006 - Source: Institute for Health Policy Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 91 kb)
8	Document	Issue Brief: Massachusetts-Style Coverage Expansion: What Would It Cost in California?, 4/1/2006 - Source: Institute for Health Policy Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 189 kb)
8	Document	Examining the Cost-effectiveness of Early Dental Visits, 4/1/2006 - Source: Pediatric Dentistry (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 111 kb)
8	Document	Medicare's New Adventure: the Part D Drug Benefit, 3/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 133 kb)
8	Document	Rewarding Performance in Medicaid Managed Care, 3/1/2006 - Source: Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 152 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Health Care in the 2006 Budget: What's Next? What to Watch for in the Coming Debates, 2/18/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 163 kb)
8	Document	Biologics and Benefit Design: What’s New for ’06?, 2/1/2006 - Source: Katherine Adams, Biotechnology Healthcare (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 141 kb)
8	Document	Charting Nursing's Future, 2/1/2006 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 320 kb)
8	Document	Uwe Reinhardt: Pricing the Services of Hospitals in the Age of Consumer-Directed Care, 1/24/2006 - Source: Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,941 kb)
8	Document	Mark Miller MedPAC Presentation: Hospital Pricing Policy, 1/24/2006 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 195 kb)
8	Document	Chip Kahn Presentation: Modeling Pay-for-Performance, 1/24/2006 - Source: Federation of American Hospitals (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 307 kb)
8	Document	Caroline Steinberg Presentation: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals , 1/24/2006 - Source: American Hospital Association (PowerPoint: 983 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Beyond the $10 Aspirin: How Well Does Our Hospital Financing System Work?, 1/24/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 148 kb)
8	Document	Income Eligibility Levels Chart by State, 1/1/2006 - Source: KFF - statehealthfacts.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 303 kb)
8	Document	Medicare’s Challenges in Paying Providers, 1/1/2006 - Source: Health Care Financing Review (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,432 kb)
8	Document	As biotech drug prices rise, U.S. hunts for solution, 12/28/2005 - Source: Geeta Anand, The Wall Street Journal (Word Document: 45 kb)
8	Document	A Need to Transform the US Health Care System: Improving Access, Quality, and Efficiency , 10/1/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 512 kb)
8	Briefing Transcript	Caring for the Elderly: Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 202 kb)
8	Document	Chernew/Goldman Presentation: Disablity & Healthcare Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 9/26/2005 - Source: University of Michigan/RAND (PowerPoint: 187 kb)
8	Document	Financial Anatomy of Biomedical Research, 9/21/2005 - Source: Hamilton Moses III, et al., Journal of the American Medical Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 156 kb)
8	Document	Health Care Leaders: Pay-for-Performance Most Effective Way to Reduce Health Car, 5/13/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 46 kb)
8	Document	Early Effects of the MMA: Benefits, Cost Sharing, and Premiums of Medicare Advantage Plans, 4/1/2005 - Source: AARP Public Policy Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 206 kb)
8	Document	Sourcelist: Understanding Resolutions, Reconciliation and Other Budgetary Rules of the Road, 2/11/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 31 kb)
8	Document	Reimagining America, 1/1/2005 - Source: AARP (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 360 kb)
8	Document	High Gleevec Price Offset by Expected Survival Benefit, 12/13/2004 - Source: Jennifer Ludmer and Andrew Allen (Word Document: 45 kb)
8	Document	The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans , 12/1/2004 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 210 kb)
8	Document	The Swiss Health System: Regulated Competition Without Managed Care, 9/8/2004 - Source: JAMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 80 kb)
8	Document	An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem , 7/1/2003 - Source: David Cutler, Harvard University (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 72 kb)
8	Document	Skilled Nursing Facilities Payment Regulation Language, 8/8/2002 - Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Word Document: 27 kb)
8	Toolkit	A Toolkit: Health Insurance Cooperatives, 10/16/2009 Health insurance cooperatives, or co-ops, have drawn attention as an alternative way for Americans to buy health insurance. Owned by their members, co-ops are seen by some as more palatable than a government-run public plan. What exactly are health insurance co-ops? What’s been their track record? Why do they succeed, or fail? Why do proponents like them, and what objections do opponents have? This new toolkit from the Alliance for Health Reform addresses these questions and others and also includes fast facts, links to 31 resources including case studies, story ideas for reporters, 34 selected experts with contact information, links to 17 selected websites, and a glossary. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 196 kb)
8	Issue Brief	The Uninsured and Rising Health Costs, 1/2/2006 Several reports in 2005 documented the increase both in health care costs and the number of uninsured. This issue brief ties together these two issues, focusing on who is losing and who is gaining health coverage, and how employers and governments are responding to rising costs. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 445 kb)
8	Offsite Document	The Efficient Use of Pharmaceuticals: Does Europe Have Any Lessons for a Medicare Drug Benefit?, 6/1/2003 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	It Ain't Necessarily So: Electronic Health Record and Unlikely Prospect of Reducing HC Cost , 7/1/2006 - Source: Journal of Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies and Innovation, 1/1/2006 - Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Capturing Value: Increasing Efficiency in Health Care, 3/1/2006 - Source: National Institute for Health Care Management Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Expert Voices: More Care Is Not Better Care, 1/1/2005 - Source: National Institute for Health Care Management Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Rising Health Care Costs Frustrate Efforts to Reduce Uninsured Rates, 12/1/2006 - Source: ERIU Research Highlight Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Rewarding Superior Quality Care: The Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration, 1/1/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	SCHIP Financing Update: In 2007, 17 States Will Face Federal Funding Shortfalls of $890 Million, 11/21/2006 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Medicare Part D Chartpack, 11/7/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicare Part D 2008 Data Spotlights, 11/7/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Two safety-net hospitals hit hard by budget cuts, 10/17/2008 - Source: The Boston Globe (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	What happens to health benefits after retirement?, 2/1/2007 - Source: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	The Building Blocks of Health Reform: Achieving Universal Coverage and Health System Savings, 5/13/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicare: Starting Now on the Path to Higher Value, 2/28/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Enhancing Value in Medicare: Demonstrations and other initiatives to improve the program, 2/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	The Republican Health-Care Surrender, 5/15/2008 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	We Seek Bipartisan Health Care, 5/22/2008 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Ending the Physician Payment Crisis: Another Reason for Major Medicare Reform, 5/20/2008 - Source: WebMemo: The Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Saving Medicare, 5/15/2008 - Source: American Enterprise Institute (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending, 2/1/2008 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Massachusetts Health Reform Tracking Survey, 7/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology, 5/1/2008 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Annual Report: MA Health Care Quality and Cost Council (Executive Summary), 4/1/2008 - Source: Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	5 Lessons Learned from Massachusetts State Health Reform, 5/1/2008 - Source: ACHP (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease, 10/1/2007 - Source: Milken Institute Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	John McCain: Straight Talk on Health System Reform, 3/1/2008 - Source: John McCain For President (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	An Analysis of Senator McCain's Health Care Proposal, 1/9/2008 - Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Blog (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	One in four employers expect health reform’s 2011 requirements to add 3% or more to next year's cost, 5/20/2010 - Source: Mercer (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicine Means Sometimes Having to Say You Are Sorry -- Joanne Kenen, 4/2/2010 - Source: Miller-McCune (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Provisions in the New Health Reform Law, 4/7/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Medicaid and CHIP Health Reform Implementation Timeline, 4/12/2010 - Source: Medicaid and CHIP Health Reform Implementation Timeline (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Major Medicare Savings Under Health Reform Legislation, 4/7/2010 - Source: American Medical Association Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 4/28/2010 - Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	What Will Happen Under Health Reform--And What's Next? A Resource for Journalists, 5/1/2010 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Lower Premiums, Stronger Businesses: How health insurance reform will bring down costs for small businesses, 1/1/2010 - Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Will bundling include doctors? Medicare looking for alternative payment plans, 1/4/2010 - Source: American Medical News (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	11 Strategies for Payment Reform in Primary Care, 3/31/2010 - Source: Health Leaders Media (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Carrot or Stick, Should Patient Decision Aids Be Rewarded or Required?, 10/1/2009 - Source: Healthwise (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Impact of Medication Adherence on Hospitalization Risk and Healthcare Cost, 6/1/2005 - Source: Medical Care (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	A Fix for the Utah Health Exchange, 12/21/2009 - Source: The Salt Lake Tribune (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Another Round of Health Reform Is on the Way, 4/5/2010 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Health Insurance Exchanges in Health Care Reform: Legal and Policy Issues, 12/1/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	The Ironic Business Case For Chronic Care In The Acute Care Setting, 1/1/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Health Reform The Cost of Failure, 5/29/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	The Economic Recession: Early Impact on Health Care Safety Net Providers, 1/1/2010 - Source: CSHC Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	How Health Care Costs Contribute to Income Disparity in the United States, 3/20/2009 - Source: McKinsey Global Institute (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid, 8/6/2009 - Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Wealth, Income, And The Affordability of Health Insurance, 3/16/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	A Survey Of Primary Care Physicians In Eleven Countries, 2009, 11/5/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Affording Shared Responsibility For Universal Coverage: Insights From California, 3/24/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Comparing the House and Senate Subsidies, 10/27/2009 - Source: Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Tax Debate: Workers who get health coverage from their employers don’t pay income or payroll..., 7/9/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Affairs Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Fork in the Road: Alternative Paths to a High Performance U.S. Health System, 6/24/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Room for Debate: Ideas for Fixing Health Care, 6/25/2009 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	CBO and IMAC, 7/25/2009 - Source: Office of Management and Budget (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Congressional Budget Office Letter to Hon. Steny H. Hoyer, 7/25/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Cost Concerns As Obama Pushes Health Issue, 6/16/2009 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs - Lessons from Regional Variation, 2/26/2009 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Senate Finance MedPAC Health Proposal Needs Savings Guarantee, 6/26/2009 - Source: Heritage Foundation (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Financing Health Care Reform, 6/1/2009 - Source: Center for American Progress (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment Scheme, 2/12/2009 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Simplifying Health Insurance Choices, 6/1/2009 - Source: Consumers Union Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Hospital Strains to Cut Elder Care Costs, 5/17/2009 - Source: Boston Globe (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget, 6/16/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Options for Financing Health Reform: Comparing the Impact of Selected Policy Options, 6/1/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	A Painless Way to Hold Down Health Costs?, 6/29/2009 - Source: National Public Radio (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Options for Financing Health Reform: Comparing the Impact of Selected Policy Options, 6/1/2009 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Most Want Health Reform But Fear Its Side Effects, 6/25/2009 - Source: The Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Health Care Rationing Rhetoric Overlooks Reality, 6/25/2009 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Consumer Choice in the Health Insurance and Provider Markets: A Look at the Evidence Thus Far, 6/25/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
8	Offsite Document	Report from Massachusetts: Employers Largely Support Health Care Reform, and Few Signs of Crowd, 11/14/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Myths and Misconceptions about U.S. Health Insurance, 10/21/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
8	Offsite Document	Technological Change and the Growth of Health Care Spending, 1/1/2008 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Unknown File Type)
7	Briefing	Ideas for Making Health Insurance More Affordable for Small Businesses, 4/24/2006 This briefing covered proposals in Congress that aim to reorganize the health insurance market for small businesses, particularly through Small Business Health Plans (SBHPs). Proponents argue that SBHPs would result in more consumer choice, lower costs and reduced regulatory burdens, while skeptics say that SBHPs would remove benefit mandates and rating structures put in place in many states.
7	Briefing	Exploring Realistic Coverage Options for the Uninsured, 10/28/2005 This briefing explored questions such as: Will consumer-directed care offer new hope for coverage? Will policy makers consider Medicaid or SCHIP expansions? Can tax credits be structured to encourage the uninsured to buy insurance in the private market? Will local public/private initiatives pave the way for national policies?
7	Briefing	Pay-for-Performance: Taking Health Care Quality Improvement to the Next Level, 7/15/2005 Pay-for-performance programs have been touted by some as a way to improve the overall quality of care provided to patients, while being criticized by others who fear unintended consequences in attempting to change physician behavior. Both the private and public sector are experimenting with incorporating pay-for-performance into a number of areas of reimbursement policy. In this Alliance for Health Reform and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation briefing, the issues and challenges surrounding pay-for-performance were discussed.
7	Document	Scott Keefer Presentation, 4/30/2010 - Source: Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner of Rhode Island (PowerPoint: 931 kb)
7	Document	Advocacy letter regarding wellness outcomes and insurance premiums, 9/24/2009 - Source: AARP (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 38 kb)
7	Document	Industry Letter to Obama, 7/13/2009 - Source: Multiple Organizations (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 767 kb)
7	Document	Cost Offset of Substance Abuse, 7/1/2009 - Source: SAMHSA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 89 kb)
7	Document	Steve Lieberman Presentation, 6/6/2008 - Source: PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint: 66 kb)
7	Document	Comparative Effectiveness: Can We Get Better Health Value for the Dollars We Spend?, 4/4/2008 - Source: Word Document (Word Document: 37 kb)
7	Document	Kenneth Thorpe Presentation, 3/28/2008 (PowerPoint: 685 kb)
7	Document	David Cutler Presentation, 3/28/2008 (PowerPoint: 292 kb)
7	Document	Analyses of the Candidates' Plans, 3/7/2008 - Source: Bob Laszewski's Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 198 kb)
7	Document	The Effects of Medicaid Reimbursement Rates on Dental Care, 3/1/2008 - Source: National Academy for State Health Policy (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 243 kb)
7	Document	Baucus May Move Early on Medicare Advantage Cuts, 1/15/2008 - Source: Congressional Quarterly - CQ.com (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 24 kb)
7	Document	Envisioning the Future: The 2008 Presidential Candidates' Health Reform Proposals, 1/1/2008 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 665 kb)
7	Document	Congress Delays SCHIP Funding Shortfalls in 2007 By Several Months, 12/15/2007 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 197 kb)
7	Document	Evidence for the Effect of Disease Management: Is $1 Billion a Year a Good Investment?, 12/1/2007 - Source: American Journal of Managed Care (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 135 kb)
7	Document	What is the Business Case for Improving Care for Patients with Complex Conditions?, 12/1/2007 - Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 238 kb)
7	Document	“Evidence for the Effect of Disease Management: Is $1 Billion a Year a Good Investment?”, 12/1/2007 - Source: American Journal of Managed Care (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 138 kb)
7	Document	Health Insurance Connectors and Exchanges: A Primer for State Officials, 9/1/2007 - Source: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 162 kb)
7	Document	SCHIP Voter Opinion Poll, 8/22/2007 - Source: Cover the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 41 kb)
7	Document	Rules May Limit Health Program Aiding Children, 8/21/2007 - Source: New York Times (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 49 kb)
7	Document	Ineligible? Don't Be So Sure, 8/21/2007 - Source: Washington Post (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 22 kb)
7	Document	Pioneer Network - Fact Sheet, 8/1/2007 - Source: Pioneer Network (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 57 kb)
7	Document	SCHIP and Crowd-Out: How Public Program Expansion Reduced Private Coverage, 6/21/2007 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 131 kb)
7	Document	Conservatives Combat SCHIP with Fuzzy Math, 6/15/2007 - Source: The New Republic Online (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 77 kb)
7	Document	Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention: Addressing the Nation's Leading Killers 2007, 6/15/2007 - Source: Center for Disease Control (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 303 kb)
7	Document	The Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness: An Online Report on the Medicare Program , 6/15/2007 - Source: Dartmouth Atlas Project (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 6,080 kb)
7	Document	Teno - Embracing NH as the Place of Care and Site of Death for Older, Frail Americans, 6/8/2007 - Source: Joan Teno, M.D. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 861 kb)
7	Document	Meier - Palliative Care in Hospitals, 6/8/2007 - Source: Diane Meier, M.D. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 154 kb)
7	Document	Stuart - Hospice and Home Care, 6/8/2007 - Source: Brad Stuart, M.D. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 42 kb)
7	Document	McConnell - Barriers to Quality End of Life Care for People with Dementia, 6/8/2007 - Source: Stephen McConnell, Ph.D. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 142 kb)
7	Document	The Medicare Advantage Program and MedPAC Recommendations, 4/11/2007 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 259 kb)
7	Document	The President’s FY 2007 Budget Proposal: Overview and Briefing Charts, 3/6/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Word Document: 144 kb)
7	Document	Physician P4P in Medicaid: A guide for states, 3/1/2007 - Source: Commonwealth Fund and Center for Healthcare Strategies (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 400 kb)
7	Document	The Administration Again Proposes to Shift Federal Medicaid Costs to States, 2/14/2007 - Source: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 248 kb)
7	Document	Health Coverage Passport: A Proposal to Cover All Americans, 2/1/2007 - Source: Federation of American Hospitals (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 817 kb)
7	Document	The President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look, 1/23/2007 - Source: Tax Policy Center (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 74 kb)
7	Document	Making Health Care Affordable: Bush’s Bold Health Tax Reform Plan, 1/22/2007 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 93 kb)
7	Document	Budget in Brief- FY 2008, 1/1/2007 - Source: HHS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 816 kb)
7	Document	2007 State of the Union Policy Initiatives: Affordable, Accessible, And Flexible Health Covera, 1/1/2007 - Source: The White House (Word Document: 50 kb)
7	Document	The Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans, 11/1/2006 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 237 kb)
7	Document	Coverage through the “Doughnut Hole” Grows Scarcer in 2007, 11/1/2006 - Source: Families USA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 546 kb)
7	Document	Hospital Acute Inpatient Services Payment System- payment basics, 10/1/2006 - Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 789 kb)
7	Document	Low Medicaid Spending growth Amid Rebounding State Revenues: Results from a 50-Stat Medicaid Bu, 10/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,895 kb)
7	Document	Why Not the Best? Results from a National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 9/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,313 kb)
7	Document	Physician Services Payment System- payment basics, 9/1/2006 - Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 755 kb)
7	Document	Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, 9/1/2006 - Source: IOM (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 128 kb)
7	Document	National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance: Complete Chartpack, 9/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 315 kb)
7	Document	Framework for a High Performance Health System in the United States, 8/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 176 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Physician Payment: Are we getting what we pay for? Are we Paying for what we get? , 7/25/2006 - Source: Commonweatlh (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 245 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Physician Payment: Are We Getting What We Pay For? Testimony , 7/25/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 245 kb)
7	Document	National Coverage Determinations with Data Collection as a Condition of Coverage, 7/14/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (Word Document: 81 kb)
7	Document	Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative: Issue Brief , 7/1/2006 - Source: Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 142 kb)
7	Document	Australia's Nat'l Medicines Policy: Providing an Integrated Policy Platform for Pharmaceuticals, 6/23/2006 - Source: Elizabeth Roughead, University of South Australia School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Word Document: 104 kb)
7	Document	Libby Roughead Presentation: Australia's National Medicines Policy, 6/23/2006 - Source: University of South Australia (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 9,267 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 227 kb)
7	Document	Drug Money, 6/16/2006 - Source: Christopher Gallen, Canadian Business (Word Document: 30 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Medicare Advantage: Early Views and Trendspotting, 5/19/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 185 kb)
7	Document	Marsha Gold Presentation: What We Know From Analyzing Public Data Files, 5/19/2006 - Source: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 692 kb)
7	Document	Brian Biles Presentation: Medicare Advantage: Are MA Plans a Better Deal?, 5/19/2006 - Source: George Washington University (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 532 kb)
7	Document	Karen Ignagni Presentation: Are Medicare Advantage Plans Meeting Expectations?, 5/19/2006 - Source: America's Health Insurance Plans (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 347 kb)
7	Document	Patients’ Freedom of Conscience: The Case for Values-Driven Health Plans, 5/12/2006 - Source: Robert E. Moffit, et al, The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 648 kb)
7	Document	Tim Murphy Presentation: Massachusetts Health Care Reform, 5/8/2006 - Source: Tim Murphy (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 100 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2006 Trustees Report, 5/1/2006 - Source: National Academy of Social Insurance (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 262 kb)
7	Document	Examining Pay-for-Performance Measures and Other Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Care, 5/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 32 kb)
7	Document	Understanding Key Parts of the Massachusetts Health Plan, 4/20/2006 - Source: Robert Moffit and Nina Owcharenko, The Heritage Foundation Web Memo (Word Document: 43 kb)
7	Document	Massachusetts Raises the Bar for Health Care Reform, 4/17/2006 - Source: David Kendell, Progressive Policy Institute (Word Document: 38 kb)
7	Document	Healthcare plan needs dose of common sense, 4/17/2006 - Source: Marcia Angell, Boston Globe (Word Document: 33 kb)
7	Document	Center for Medicare and Medicaid sercives (CMS)/ Premier Hospital Quality and incentive Demonst, 4/13/2006 - Source: Premier (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 350 kb)
7	Document	Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Massachusetts Health Care Reform, 4/12/2006 - Source: John Sweeney (Word Document: 28 kb)
7	Document	The Significance of Massachusetts Health Reform, 4/11/2006 - Source: Edmund Haislmaier, The Heritage Foundation (Word Document: 57 kb)
7	Document	New Study Captures Variations Across Medicare Drug Plans, 4/11/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Word Document: 56 kb)
7	Document	An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care Section-by-Section Sum, 4/6/2006 - Source: Massachusetts Legislature (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 35 kb)
7	Document	Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Massachusetts Health Care Reform, 4/5/2006 - Source: John Sweeney (Word Document: 28 kb)
7	Document	Health Care Access and Affordability Conference Committee Report, 4/3/2006 - Source: Massachusetts Legislature (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 35 kb)
7	Document	Health Care Reform Conference Committee Bill PowerPoint, 4/3/2006 - Source: Massachusetts Legislature (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 35 kb)
7	Document	Health Policy and Strategy Associates, Inc. April 2006 Client Bulletin, 4/1/2006 - Source: Robet Laszewski (Word Document: 80 kb)
7	Document	Section-by-Section Analysis of H. 4850, An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Account, 4/1/2006 - Source: Mental Health & Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts (MHSACM) (Word Document: 527 kb)
7	Document	Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem, 4/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 195 kb)
7	Document	Massachusetts and the United States State Medicaid Fact Sheet, 4/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 179 kb)
7	Document	Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan, 4/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Commission (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 161 kb)
7	Document	Massachusetts Legislative Proposal to Achieve Universal Health Care Coverage: HB 4850 Summary, 4/1/2006 - Source: Americas Health Insurance Plans (Word Document: 68 kb)
7	Document	CMS Sets $500 Threshold for Specialty Tiers, 4/1/2006 - Source: Medicare Drug Reimbursement Guide (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 393 kb)
7	Document	Pay for Performance: A Decision Guide for Purchasers, 4/1/2006 - Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 328 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Where are HSAs and High-Deductible Health Plans Headed?, 3/10/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 151 kb)
7	Document	Roy Ramthun and Katherine Baicker: The President's Health Savings Account Proposals, 3/10/2006 - Source: Council of Economic Advisers (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 32 kb)
7	Document	Frank McArdle Presentation: Current State of HSAs in the Large Employer Market, 3/10/2006 - Source: Hewitt Associates (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 215 kb)
7	Document	Uwe Reinhardt Presentation: The Ethical Implications of Consumer Directed Health Care , 3/10/2006 - Source: Princeton University (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 2,843 kb)
7	Document	Diane Rowland Presentation: Background on Health Savings Accounts, 3/10/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 34 kb)
7	Document	Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2006 , 3/7/2006 - Source: Mercer Oliver Wyman (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 114 kb)
7	Document	Can Medicaid do more with Less?, 3/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 143 kb)
7	Document	Economic Report of the President, 2/1/2006 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 306 kb)
7	Document	Sourcelist: Beyond the $10 Aspirin-How Well Does Our Hospital Financing System Work?, 1/24/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 35 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	The Reality and Potential of Evidence-Based Medicine, 1/12/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 193 kb)
7	Document	Insulin Analogs: Innovation in the Biotechnololgy, 1/1/2006 - Source: Bin Zhang, Robert Nocon, and Wendy Everett, New England Healthcare Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 89 kb)
7	Document	Biotechnology Industry Facts, 1/1/2006 - Source: Biotechnology Industry Organization (Word Document: 182 kb)
7	Document	Cancer and Managed Care in the 21st Century, 12/1/2005 - Source: William T. McGivney and Jill Mullen, The American Journal of Managed Care (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 161 kb)
7	Document	Early Experience With High-Deductible and Consumer-Driven Health Plans , 12/1/2005 - Source: EBRI (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 848 kb)
7	Document	State Profiles - Massachusetts: Reforming the Health Care System, 12/1/2005 - Source: AARP Public Policy Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 261 kb)
7	Document	Health-Care Crisis: States Are Rushing In?, 11/28/2005 - Source: William Symonds, BusinessWeek (Word Document: 31 kb)
7	Document	Living Long in Fragile Health: The New Demographics Shape End of Life Care, 11/1/2005 - Source: Hastings Center Report (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,544 kb)
7	Document	High Deductible, High Risk, 10/18/2005 - Source: The Washington Post (Word Document: 39 kb)
7	Document	Steve Schoenbaum Presentation: A High Performance Health System for the US - The Challenge, 10/3/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 556 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Toward a High Performance Health System, 10/3/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 314 kb)
7	Document	Roadmap to Coverage: Synthesis of Findings Executive Summary, 10/1/2005 - Source: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 498 kb)
7	Document	States' Fiscal Status and Actions to Slow Medicaid Spending, 10/1/2005 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 72 kb)
7	Document	Sourcelist: Caring for the Elderly: Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 37 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Health Information Technology: Here, Now, and Tomorrow, 9/16/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 195 kb)
7	Document	Richard Hillestad Presentation: Can Information Technology Transform Health Care? , 9/16/2005 - Source: RAND Health (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 267 kb)
7	Document	George Halvorson Presentation:Access to Data is the Essential Foundation for Health Care Reform, 9/16/2005 - Source: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 170 kb)
7	Document	EPSDT and Coverage Costs, 9/1/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund and GWU (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 30 kb)
7	Document	The Medicare Advantage Program , 6/1/2005 - Source: MedPAC (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 330 kb)
7	Briefing Transcript	Weighing the Evidence: Conducting Reviews of Pharmaceuticals in Four Countries, 4/22/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 211 kb)
7	Document	Medicare Spending and Financing , 4/1/2005 - Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 80 kb)
7	Document	The 5 Stages of Biotechnology Management, 2/1/2005 - Source: Thomas Baker, Biotechnology Healthcare (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 186 kb)
7	Document	Sourcelist: The Reality and Potential of Evidence-Based Medicine, 1/12/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 28 kb)
7	Document	Gail Shearer Presentation: Bringing Evidence-Based Medicine to Consumers, 1/12/2005 - Source: Consumers Union (PowerPoint: 2,308 kb)
7	Document	Snapshot: Health Care Costs 101, 1/1/2005 - Source: California HealthCare Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 213 kb)
7	Document	Will Health Care Costs Erode Retirement Security?, 10/1/2004 - Source: Center for Retirement Research (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 48 kb)
7	Document	Testimony of Dr. Gerard Anderson: A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection Practices, 6/24/2004 - Source: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Word Document: 54 kb)
7	Document	Impact of Association Health Plan Legislation on Premiums and Coverage for Small Employers , 6/1/2003 - Source: Mercer (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 351 kb)
7	Document	Has the Jury Reached a Verdict? Early Experiences with Crowd-Out Under SCHIP, 6/1/2001 - Source: The Urban Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 319 kb)
7	Document	Understanding the Dynamics of Crowd Out, 6/1/2001 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization Program (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 727 kb)
7	Toolkit	Toolkit: Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans, 7/13/2007 Over the past three years, enrollment in Medicare private fee-for-service (PFFS) plans has increased significantly. These plans offer a potentially greater choice of providers than beneficiaries will find in Medicare HMOs or PPOs. They often provide extra benefits not found in traditional Medicare. Beneficiaries attracted to the plans hope to lower their out-of-pocket costs compared to what they would pay in traditional Medicare. However, the plans have drawn the interest of federal budget cutters since they cost more per beneficiary than traditional Medicare. Moreover, beneficiaries have been reporting confusion about the plans and sometimes, enrollment fraud. Some private fee-for-service beneficiaries have been denied services by physicians who previously accepted their traditional Medicare coverage. This toolkit, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, contains resources that describe the basics of PFFS plans, advantages and incentives included in the plans, and the challenges that PFFS enrollees have encountered along the way. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 51 kb)
7	Issue Brief	HSAs and High-Deductible Health Plans: A Primer, 4/1/2006 Health savings accounts (HSAs) linked to high-deductible health plans form the leading edge of the consumer-directed health care movement. HSAs got a boost when President Bush promoted them in his 2006 State of the Union address. This issue brief covers HSA basics, history, arguments raised for and against them, and a forecast of their impact on health insurance markets and consumer behavior. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 408 kb)
7	Offsite Document	Centralized Drug Review Processes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, 4/1/2006 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Evidence-Based and Value-Based Formulary Guidelines, 2/1/2004 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Audio Interview: P4P- Recomendation of the Inst of Med, with Dr. E. Fisher and Dr. K. Davis, 9/21/2006 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	The Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness, 5/1/2006 - Source: Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	The State of Health Care Quality 2006: Executive Summary, 1/1/2006 - Source: National Committee for Quality Assurance Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Illinois Covered Plan Details, 1/1/2007 - Source: Illinois Covered: Affordable Healthcare for All (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Governor Schwarzenegger's Plan: Stay Healthy California, 4/27/2007 - Source: California Health Foundation (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Medicare Links Doctors’ Pay to Practices, 12/12/2006 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Quality Matters: Pay-for-Performance in Medicare, 9/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Letter to President Bush from Pelosi and Reid on SCHIP Spending, 2/2/2007 - Source: Office of Senator Harry Reid (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	CBO Estimates that States will Face Federal SCHIP Shortfalls of $13.4 billion Over Next Five Y , 2/26/2007 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform Fact Sheet, 1/1/2007 - Source: Office of the Governor of the State of California (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Medicare Payment Policy, 3/1/2007 - Source: MedPac Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program, 6/1/2006 - Source: MedPac Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Developing a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Information, 11/1/2006 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Consumer Reports: Best Buy Drugs, 4/27/2007 - Source: Consumer Report (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Health’s Ailment; A new Congress may patch up a few problems, but don’t expect a cure, 11/20/2006 - Source: U.S. News & World Report (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Early Experience With High-Deductible and Consumer-Driven Health Plans, 12/7/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	CEO Survival Guide to Pay for Performance- Executive Summary, 1/1/2006 - Source: QNF Executive Institute (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff, 12/5/2006 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Bill H.R.6804- Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (Introduced in House), 12/7/2006 - Source: Library of Congress- Thomas (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Health Insurance Coverage: 2006, 8/27/2007 - Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	An Analysis of Barack Obama's Health Care Proposal, 3/7/2008 - Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Blog (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	An Analysis of Senator Clinton's Health Care Proposal, 1/15/2008 - Source: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Blog (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Barack Obama's Plan for a Healthy America, 3/1/2008 - Source: Obama For America Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Hillary Clinton's American Health Choices Plan: Quality, Affordable Health Care For Every Ameri, 3/1/2008 - Source: Hillary Clinton For President Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments, 12/1/2007 - Source: Congressional Budget Office (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	About Those Health Care Plans by the Democrats, 2/14/2008 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Candidates Issue Index, 5/13/2008 - Source: The Brookings Institution (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Price Check: The Mystery of Hospital Pricing, 12/1/2005 - Source: California HealthCare Foundation (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Charting Nursing’s Future, 6/8/2008 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient Care, 11/26/2006 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Does Preventive Care Save Money? Health Economics and the Presidential Candidates, 2/14/2008 - Source: New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Obama Proposes $1 Billion/Year Boost for Child Nutrition, 2/26/2009 - Source: Reuters (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	U.S. Sens. Harkin, Murkowski: Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Children's Health, 4/30/2009 - Source: IowaPolitics.com (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	FACT SHEET: INNOVATIVE WORKPLACE PRACTICES: A DISCUSSION WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA, 6/19/2009 - Source: THE WHITE HOUSE (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	On the Fast Track, 4/13/2009 - Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care, 2/2/2009 - Source: Institute of Medicine Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Medicare Governance And Provider Payment Policy , 10/2/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Finance Committee Health Reform Bill Makes Improvements, But Still Falls Short, 10/13/2009 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Financial Penalties For The Unhealthy? Ethical Guidelines For Holding Employees Responsible For Their Health , 5/5/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Wellness At What Price?, 9/28/2009 - Source: National Journal (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Will health care reform raise my taxes?, 2/23/2010 - Source: Consumer Reports (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	How Health Reform Legislation Will Affect Medicare Beneficiaries, 3/1/2010 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Explaining Health Care Reform: Key Changes to the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Coverage Gap, 3/1/2010 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Q+A: How does healthcare overhaul affect Medicare?, 3/22/2010 - Source: Reuters (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program, 4/2/2009 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization, 10/8/2003 - Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Flexible Spending Accounts Getting Slightly Less Flexible, 2/23/2010 - Source: Consumer Reports (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Timeline for Health Care Reform Implementation: Revenue Provisions , 4/1/2010 - Source: Consumer Reports (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	IRS Issues Notice on Tax Implications of Extending Coverage to Adult Children, 5/1/2010 - Source: The Erisa Industry Committee (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Affordable Health Insurance for Young Adults:Which health plan or policy is best? We offer healthcare coverage advice for 8 different situations, 4/1/2010 - Source: US News and World Report (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Improving Quality Health Care: The Role of Consumer Engagement, 6/25/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Excerpts from The Patient Life: Can Consumers Direct Health Care?, 6/25/2009 - Source: American Journal of Law and Medicine (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Promoting Informed Choice: Transforming Health Care to Dispense Knowledge for Decision Making, 6/25/2009 - Source: Annals of Internal Medicine Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	A Hospital Is Offering Digital Records, 6/25/2009 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Living Within Limits - Practical Lessons and Moral Choices: Where Economics Meets Ethics, 6/25/2009 - Source: Princeton University Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	The GOP's Health-Care Alternative, 6/25/2009 - Source: The Wall Street Journal (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Is United HealthCare Looking Out For the Patient?, 6/25/2009 - Source: Newsday (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Highlighting Key Issues in Health Reform, 6/25/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Hospitals Reach Deal With Administration, 7/13/2009 - Source: Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	The Uninsured: The Impact of Covering Mental Illness and Addictions Disorders, 6/1/2007 - Source: National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Financing Health Care Reform, 5/12/2009 - Source: American Enterprise Institute Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Democrats Are at Odds on Financing Health Care, 7/10/2009 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Congressional Budget Office Letter to Hon. Charles B. Rangel, 7/17/2009 - Source: Congressional Budget Office Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Progressive or Regressive? A Second Look at the Tax Exemption for Employer-Sponsored Health.., 5/1/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
7	Offsite Document	Move over, David Beckham. Bend it like Peter Orszag!, 7/24/2009 - Source: Politico (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	The Public Option and Insurance Exchange in The House Bill, 10/30/2009 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	The Cost of Taxing Health Benefits, 7/20/2009 - Source: Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
7	Offsite Document	Key Senators Discuss Trimming Health Bill, 8/20/2009 - Source: Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
6	Briefing	Full Steam Ahead: Implementation Opportunities and Challenges for Employers and Consumers, 9/8/2010 Please join us for a discussion about health reform implementation issues employers and consumers face. The luncheon briefing will take place on September 8 from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in Senate Dirksen Office Building, Room G50. Panelists are: Terry Gardiner, Small Business Majority; Steve Finan, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; Steve Wocjik, National Business Group on Health (invited); and Janet Trautwein, National Association of Health Underwriters. Ed Howard of the Alliance and Brian Quinn of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will co-moderate.
6	Document	Community Efforts to Expand Dental Services for Low-Income People, 7/1/2008 - Source: Center for Studying Health System Change (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 243 kb)
6	Document	Putting the Brakes on Health Care Costs: Would the Candidates' Plans Work?, 6/3/2008 - Source: Word Document (Word Document: 36 kb)
6	Document	Can We Contain Health Care Costs Without Compromising Quality?, 1/28/2008 - Source: Word Document (Word Document: 29 kb)
6	Document	Rewarding Excellence and Efficiency in Medicare Payments, 9/1/2007 - Source: Milbank Quarterly (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 515 kb)
6	Document	Disease Management: Panacea, Another False Hope, or Something in Between?, 5/1/2007 - Source: Annals of Family Medicine (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 103 kb)
6	Document	Governor's Health Care Proposal, 4/26/2007 - Source: Office of the Governor of California (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 123 kb)
6	Document	President’s “Affordable Choices” Initiative Provides Little Support for state efforts to expand, 4/3/2007 - Source: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 236 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2007 Trustees Report, 4/1/2007 - Source: National Academy of Social Insurance (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 110 kb)
6	Document	2007 'State of the States' Addresses: Health Care Looms Large, 3/1/2007 - Source: Stateline (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 66 kb)
6	Document	SCHIP Letter from Governors to Leadership Committee, 2/23/2007 - Source: National Governors Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 354 kb)
6	Document	Is the president’s plan dead even before arrival?, 2/3/2007 - Source: British Medical Journal (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 40 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Advantage- Fact Sheet, 2/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 326 kb)
6	Document	SCHIP Financing: Funding Projections and State Redistribution Issues, 1/30/2007 - Source: CRS Report for Congress (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 134 kb)
6	Document	Expanding Health Care Coverage in the United States: A Historic Agreement, 1/18/2007 - Source: Health Coverage Coalition for the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 401 kb)
6	Document	The State Children's Health Insurance Program: Past Present, and Future, 1/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 228 kb)
6	Document	State Strategies to Expand Health Insurance Coverage: Trends and Lessons for Policymakers, 1/1/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 241 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics, 2007- Fact Sheet, 1/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 135 kb)
6	Document	Frequently Asked Questions & Glossary Terms, 1/1/2007 - Source: DirigoHealth - Maine.gov (Word Document: 150 kb)
6	Document	A Decade of SCHIP Experience, 1/1/2007 - Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 809 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Pay for Performance, 12/15/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
6	Document	The Healthy Americans Act, 12/13/2006 - Source: Sen. Ron Wyden (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 166 kb)
6	Document	HMOs: State plan too easy on firms, 11/11/2006 - Source: Boston Globe (Word Document)
6	Document	Medicare and Prescription Drug- Fact Sheet, 11/1/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 381 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist- Balancing the Promise and Cost of Biotechnology”, 9/22/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 42 kb)
6	Document	Statement of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, 9/19/2006 - Source: Senator Rockefeller’s Office (Word Document: 30 kb)
6	Document	Part D Payment System- payment basics, 9/1/2006 - Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 807 kb)
6	Document	Public Views on Shaping the Future of the U.S. Health System, 8/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 183 kb)
6	Document	The Massachusetts Health Plan: Lessons for the States, 7/18/2006 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 309 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
6	Document	Perspectives on Reauthorization SCHIP Directors Weigh In, 6/1/2006 - Source: National Academy for State Health Policy (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 303 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Medicare Advantage- Early Views and Trendspotting , 5/19/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 36 kb)
6	Document	James Mongan Presentation: Alliance for Health Reform/Kaiser Family Foundation Briefing, 5/8/2006 - Source: James Mongan, MD (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 36 kb)
6	Document	Opinion Pieces Address Massachusetts Health Insurance Law, 5/1/2006 - Source: KaiserNetwork.org (Word Document: 31 kb)
6	Document	The Massachusetts Health Plan: Proceed with Caution, 4/26/2006 - Source: Grace-Marie Turner, The Galen Institute Health Policy Matters (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 23 kb)
6	Document	Massachusetts House Overrides Gov. Romney's Vetoes of Health Legislation Provisions, 4/26/2006 - Source: KaiserNetwork.org State Watch (Word Document: 32 kb)
6	Document	Mitt makes his case for Massachusetts health bill, 4/25/2006 - Source: Congressional Quarterly Health Beat (Word Document: 36 kb)
6	Briefing Transcript	Ideas for Making Health Insurance More Affordable for Small Businesses, 4/24/2006 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 208 kb)
6	Document	AFL-CIO President Criticizes Massachusetts Health Care Law, 4/18/2006 - Source: KaiserNetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 161 kb)
6	Document	Kennedy: Mass Leads the Way in Health Care for All, 4/12/2006 - Source: Senator Edward Kennedy (Word Document: 60 kb)
6	Document	Despite Bay State Breakthrough, Money Still the Big Obstacle to Covering the Uninsured, 4/10/2006 - Source: Congressional Quarterly Health Beat (Word Document: 36 kb)
6	Document	Massachusetts will fail, 4/9/2006 - Source: USA Today (Word Document: 27 kb)
6	Document	Labor Officials Doubt Wisdom of Health Care Reforms, 4/8/2006 - Source: Robert Haynes, Massachusetts AFL-CIO (Word Document: 48 kb)
6	Document	Letter from CMS, 4/5/2006 - Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 246 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Where Are HSAs and High-Deductible Health Plans Headed?, 3/10/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 40 kb)
6	Document	The Cost and Coverage Impact of the President's Health Insurance Budget Proposals, 2/15/2006 - Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 50 kb)
6	Document	Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payments Update (RHQDAPU), 1/1/2006 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 30 kb)
6	Document	Hospital Quality Initiative Overview, 12/1/2005 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 33 kb)
6	Briefing Transcript	Exploring Realistic Coverage Options for the Uninsured, 10/28/2005 - Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 204 kb)
6	Document	Commission on High Performance Health System Releases Chartbook Assesing the US Health System , 10/3/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Word Document: 52 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Toward a High Performance Health System , 10/3/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
6	Document	A Tale of Two Health Systems, 10/1/2005 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Word Document: 63 kb)
6	Document	Barry Straube Presentation: Caring for the Elderly- Is There Any Answer to Rising Health Costs?, 9/26/2005 - Source: OCSQ (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 183 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Health Information Technology: Here, Now, and Tomorrow, 9/16/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 40 kb)
6	Briefing Transcript	Pay-for-Performance: Taking Health Care Quality Improvement to the Next Level, 7/15/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 195 kb)
6	Document	Jeffrey Hanson Presentation: Pay-for-Performance Taking Health Care Quality to the Next Level, 7/15/2005 - Source: Bridges to Excellence (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 73 kb)
6	Document	Aetna Letter: Health Savings Accounts - Exceptions for Preventive Prescription Drugs, 5/25/2005 - Source: Aetna (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 325 kb)
6	Document	Medicare Drug Cost Estimates: What Congress Knows Now, 4/28/2005 - Source: The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 390 kb)
6	Document	Sourcelist: Weighing the Evidence- Conducting Reviews of Pharmaceuticals in Four Countries, 4/22/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 31 kb)
6	Document	William Hoagland Presentation: The Appropriations and Budget Process, 2/11/2005 - Source: Office of Senator Frist (PowerPoint: 440 kb)
6	Document	The Health Impact of Resolving Racial Disparities: An analysis of US mortality data, 12/1/2004 - Source: American Journal of Public Health (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 246 kb)
6	Document	Testimony of Dr. Sara Collins: Commonwealth Fund 2003 Biennial Health Insurance Survey Results, 6/24/2004 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Word Document: 62 kb)
6	Document	Enganar: An Investigative Report on HCA's Discount Program for the Uninsured, 6/23/2004 - Source: Consejo de Latinos Unidos (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 107 kb)
6	Other Publication	Sourcebook 2006- Chap 12: Public Health, 10/9/2006 This chapter from the Alliance sourcebook, “Covering Health Issues, 2006” presents key facts, background, story ideas, experts and websites on public health. It includes information on how public health works, the infrastructure, funding, addressing obesity, public health workforce, health information technology (health IT) , public health and the uninsured, and environmental health. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 2,441 kb)
6	Offsite Document	Prevention for a Healthier America, 6/19/2009 - Source: Trust for America's Health Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	The Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health, 5/25/2000 - Source: Department of Health and Human Services (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Public And Private Health Insurance: Stacking Up The Costs, 6/24/2008 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Economic Woes Affect Americans' Views of Health Care Reform, 5/13/2008 - Source: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	CEO Survival Guide to Pay-for-Performance: Overview of CMS Demonstration Projects, 1/1/2006 - Source: NQF Executive Institute (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Prometheus’ new payment model seeks to reform the toxic health care payment system, 9/1/2006 - Source: The Leapfrog group (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Pay-for-Performance, 7/1/2006 - Source: Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Sen. Baucus to Tackle Health Care Costs, 11/16/2006 - Source: Forbes.com (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	US Election: Implications of Democratic control for healthcare, 9/1/2006 - Source: Goldman Sachs (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Instability of Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children and Their Families: Causes, Conseq, 3/1/2006 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	Democratic leaders eye FDA reforms, 11/16/2006 - Source: The Executive (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Sen. Kennedy Outlines Goals for Senate HELP Committee, Including Universal Coverage for All U.S, 11/17/2006 - Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (kaisernetwork.org) (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Press Release: Grassley Introduces Bill to Help States Fund Health Care for Low-Income Children, 9/28/2006 - Source: United States Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Official Websight (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	LSU seeks $200 million more in financing for health care, 5/2/2007 - Source: The Times- Picayune (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	The 2007 State of the Union Address: The President's Health Insurance Proposal Is Not a Solutio, 1/24/2007 - Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Governor Rendell Aims To Make Healthcare Affordable, 3/30/2007 - Source: CBS 3 (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Governor Signs Comprehensive Health Care Reform Legislation - Press Release, 5/25/2006 - Source: Jim Douglas, Governor of Vermont - Vermont.gov (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Welcome - Illinois Covered, 1/1/2007 - Source: Illinois Covered: Affordable Healthcare for All (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Focus on Health Reform: Health Care Reform Proposals, 8/7/2009 - Source: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	Addressing Health Care Market Reform Through an Insurance Exchange: Essential Policy Components, 6/17/2009 - Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	How Health Care Reform Can Lower the Costs of Insurance Administration, 7/16/2009 - Source: Commonwealth Fund (Unknown File Type)
6	Offsite Document	Choice in Medical Care: When Should the Consumer Decide?, 6/25/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Adobe Acrobat PDF
6	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform: Perspectives From Large Employers, 6/1/2010 - Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
5	Document	Creating a Healthier Future Through Early Interventions for Children, 6/19/2009 - Source: JAMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 118 kb)
5	Document	Medicare Advantage & the Federal Budget: Statement of Mark McClellan, 6/28/2007 - Source: Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 49 kb)
5	Document	News Release: MedPAC Releases Report on Medicare Payment Policy, 6/15/2007 - Source: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 233 kb)
5	Document	SELECTED RESOURCES: State Health Coverage Initiatives, 5/25/2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 46 kb)
5	Document	Health Reform Massachusetts Style: Ink Blot Test and Example for Us All, 5/15/2007 - Source: New America Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 74 kb)
5	Document	Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, 5/1/2007 - Source: The Brookings Institution - Hamilton Project (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,017 kb)
5	Document	Health Care Already a Key Issue in 2008, 3/6/2007 - Source: The Washington Post (Word Document: 35 kb)
5	Document	Health Reform in Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont: An examination of state strategies..., 3/1/2007 - Source: Maine Health Access Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 596 kb)
5	Document	Affordable high quality health care for all Maine people, 1/1/2007 - Source: DirigoHealth - Maine.gov (Word Document: 115 kb)
5	Document	Prescription for Pennsylvania, 1/1/2007 - Source: Governor's Office of Health Care Reform (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 6,288 kb)
5	Document	State of the States 2007, 1/1/2007 - Source: State Coverage Initiatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,664 kb)
5	Document	Vermont Health Care Reform: Five-Year Implementation Plan, 12/1/2006 - Source: State of Vermont Agency of Administration (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 363 kb)
5	Document	United States: The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act’s Health Insurance Nondiscrimination Ru, 11/13/2006 - Source: Mintz Levin Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group (Word Document)
5	Document	From New England to the Golden Gate Bridge: A Look at Creative Coverage Expansions..., 11/1/2006 - Source: The America Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 188 kb)
5	Document	Overview of Vermont’s Health Care Reform, 10/1/2006 - Source: State of Vermont Agency of Administration (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
5	Document	Dirigo’s Next Phase, 8/9/2006 - Source: Bangor Daily News (Word Document)
5	Document	Romney defends health plan to skeptical conservatives, 4/26/2006 - Source: Alan Wirzbicki, Boston Globe (Word Document: 41 kb)
5	Document	Sourcelist: Ideas for Making Health Insurance More Affordable for Small Businesses , 4/24/2006 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 38 kb)
5	Document	Performance Incentive Programs- Chart pack, 4/1/2006 - Source: Center for Health Care Strategies (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 249 kb)
5	Document	Wall Street Senses Opportunities In Health Care Savings Accounts, 1/27/2006 - Source: New York Times (Word Document: 32 kb)
5	Document	Health-Care Applications, 1/1/2006 - Source: Biotechnology Industry Organization (Word Document: 60 kb)
5	Document	A Health Threat We're Not Treating (Newt Gingrich specialty hospital op-ed), 11/12/2005 - Source: The Washington Post (Word Document: 167 kb)
5	Document	The Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration, 11/1/2005 - Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 26 kb)
5	Document	The Rise and Role of Specialty Pharmacies, 10/1/2005 - Source: David Suchanek, Biotechnology Healthcare (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 114 kb)
5	Document	Medicaid Responsiveness, Health Coverage, and Economic Resilience: A Preliminary Analysis, 9/27/2005 - Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,074 kb)
5	Document	Michael O'Grady Presentation: Cash and Counseling Demostration and Evaluation , 7/29/2005 - Source: ASPE, Departent of Health and Human Services (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 11 kb)
5	Document	Kevin Mahoney Presentation: Cash and Counseling Congressional Briefing , 7/29/2005 - Source: Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 94 kb)
5	Document	Sourcelist: Pay-for-Performance: Taking Health Care Quality Improvement to the Next Level, 7/15/2005 - Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document)
5	Document	AMA Letter to Congress in support of Specialty Hospitals, 4/22/2005 - Source: American Medical Association (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 80 kb)
5	Document	Pursing Perfection: When Quality Means Business, 2/21/2005 - Source: Modern Healthcare (Word Document: 41 kb)
5	Document	Testimony of Jack Bovender, Jr: HCA charity care and discount policy for uninsured patients, 6/24/2004 - Source: Hospital Corporation of America (Word Document: 43 kb)
5	Document	GM health care bill tops $60 billion , 3/11/2004 - Source: The Detroit News (Word Document: 58 kb)
5	Document	Medicare Drug Debacle , 6/27/2003 - Source: Cato Institute (Word Document: 25 kb)
5	Offsite Document	Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee Hearing, 5/22/2007 - Source: Committee on Education and Labor: U.S. House of Representatives (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 1/1/2007 - Source: State Coverage Initiatives (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Value of Medicare Advantage to Low-Income and Minority Medicare Beneficiaries- Executive Summar, 9/20/2005 - Source: Emory - Rollins School of Public Health Adobe Acrobat PDF
5	Offsite Document	Health Care for All Kids, 1/1/2007 - Source: State of Illinois: All Kids (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Physician Focused Quality Initiative, 4/12/2006 - Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program, 10/1/2006 - Source: Leapfrog Group (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Continued Quality Improvement in CA Health Care Announced by Integrated Healthcare Association, 7/13/2006 - Source: Integrated Health Care Association (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	“The grade is: 66 out of 100: Commonwealth gives U.S. healthcare a sickly ranking, 10/25/2006 - Source: Modern Health Care (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	The National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Eductional Foundation, 8/1/2006 - Source: National Institute for Healthcare Management (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Problems and Priorities, 5/25/2008 - Source: Pollingreport.com (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, 4/1/2008 - Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Pennsylvania Prepares to Revamp Approach to Chronic Care, 2/20/2008 - Source: American Academy of Family Physicians (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Prescription for Pennsylvania: Chronic Care Management Strategic Plan, 2/1/2008 - Source: American Academy of Family Physicians Adobe Acrobat PDF
5	Offsite Document	The Tyranny of Choice, 6/25/2009 - Source: Scientific American Adobe Acrobat PDF
5	Offsite Document	Insurers Tout Disease Management Programs, but Critics Are Wary, 7/20/2010 - Source: The Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Insurers Tout Disease Management Programs, but Critics Are Wary, 7/20/2010 - Source: The Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Health Care Reform Leaves Out Illegal Immigrants, 4/4/2010 - Source: Associated Press (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	The New Old Age: How Old Is Too Old for Lifesaving Surgery?, 6/25/2009 - Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Consumer Issues in Healthcare Reform, 5/27/2009 - Source: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Adobe Acrobat PDF
5	Offsite Document	A German Import That Could Help U.S. Health Reform, 7/24/2009 - Source: New York Times (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	A Look at Health Care Plans in Congress, 7/13/2009 - Source: Associated Press (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index, 6/25/2009 - Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Unknown File Type)
5	Offsite Document	What is PROMETHEUS Payment?, 7/1/2009 - Source: PROMETHEUS Payment Adobe Acrobat PDF
5	Offsite Document	The Health Care Reform Dialogue - Key Questions about Coverage and Access, 3/1/2009 - Source: National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (Unknown File Type)

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