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Adobe Acrobat PDF Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions 2008, Health_Care_Coverage_in_America_2008_82.pdf

4/28/2008: This 24-page guide, newly updated, provides a readable overview on how Americans get health coverage, why coverage is so important, why so many of us don’t have coverage and what could be done to ease the problem. Includes many graphs and links to sources of additional information, including a glossary of health coverage terms and several specific proposals for change. Also includes nine questions to ask when evaluating any health reform proposal. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF A Call for Action: The Pepper Commission Final Report, Pepper_Commission_Final_Report_73.pdf

10/31/2007: Seventeen years ago, a bipartisan congressional commission agreed unanimously that “all Americans should have access to affordable health and long-term care coverage in an efficient and effective system.” The Pepper Commission, chaired by Sen. Claude Pepper and then by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, is all but forgotten. But the insights and recommendations contained in the commission’s final report make for fascinating reading today and offer guidance as the nation ramps up for another try at major health reform. (328 pages -- 57 MB) To download the 18-page executive summary, see the next entry below.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF A Call for Action: The Pepper Commission Final Report -- Executive Summary, Pepper_Commission_Final_Report_Executive_Summary_72.pdf

10/26/2007: This is the executive summary of the Pepper Commission's Final Report. (18 pages -- 4 MB)

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions, Health_Care_Coverage_in_America_2007_54.pdf

4/11/2007: This 24-page guide, updated for Cover the Uninsured Week 2007, provides a readable overview to how Americans get health coverage, why so many of us don’t have coverage and what could be done to ease the problem. Includes many graphs, a glossary of health coverage terms and links to sources of additional information. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Rewarding Quality Performance: The Role of Nursing, Rewarding_Quality_Performance_Nursing_51.pdf

3/3/2007: Quality improvement programs could achieve even better results if they paid more attention to the contribution of nurses, concludes a new Alliance for Health Reform briefing summary.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Is the president's plan dead even before arrival?, Uwe_Reinhardt_on_President_Bushs_plan_49.pdf

2/2/2007: Dr. Reinhardt concludes that “Bush’s proposed health reforms would do little for the millions of low income, uninsured Americans who would not much benefit from the standard tax deductions” that are a key selling point for the plan. (Uwe Reinhardt is James Madison professor of political economy at Princeton University.)

 

Word Document Toolkit: President Bush's Health Coverage Plan, President_Bushs_Health_Coverage_Plan_50.doc

2/2/2007: We may not see action soon on the two-part health plan to help the uninsured prposed by President Bush in his January 23 State of the Union address. But the president's plan is sure to generate discussion on and off Capitol Hill for months to come.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2006- Chap 12: Public Health, pub_37.pdf

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 Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions, pub_7.pdf

3/1/2006: Health insurance is one of the most important - and most misunderstood - subjects any of us faces in everyday life. This 23-page guide, written by the Alliance staff for Cover the Uninsured Week 2006, helps clarify who has coverage and who doesn't, and why being uninsured can cause so many problems - for uninsured individuals and for society at large. Several options for increasing coverage are discussed, along with questions to consider when evaluating proposals to help the uninsured. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 1: The Uninsured, pub_8.pdf

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 the uninsured.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 2: Employer-Sponsored Coverage, pub_9.pdf

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 employer-sponsored coverage.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 3: Individual Coverage, pub_10.pdf

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 individual coverage.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 4: Children's Coverage, pub_11.pdf

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 children's coverage.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 5: Medicare, pub_12.pdf

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 Medicare.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 6: Prescription Drugs, pub_13.pdf

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 prescription drugs.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 7: Medicaid, pub_14.pdf

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 Medicaid.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 8: Health Care Costs, pub_15.pdf

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 Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 9: Racial and Ethnic Disparities, pub_16.pdf

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 racial and ethnic disparities.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 10: Mental Health, pub_17.pdf

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 mental health.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 11: Public Health, pub_18.pdf

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 public health.

 

Adobe Acrobat PDF Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 12: Reproductive Health, pub_19.pdf

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 reproductive health.

 

 


New Issue Brief: Comparative Effectiveness


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. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To download, click here.

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Dental Health: Nurturing the Health Care System’s Neglected Stepchild


More than 100 million Americans have no insurance to help cover dental needs. With SCHIP reauthorization on the horizon and the chance that elements of last year’s vetoed SCHIP proposal—which included provisions for dental care—may be revived, oral health issues are front and center. What is the best way to include dental health in the larger health reform debate? How should payment to dental health providers be improved? How can dental workforce shortage issues be addressed? To address these and related questions, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured sponsored a July 25 briefing.

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Green Houses Getting Attention as Long-Term Care Alternative


Green Houses, small long-term care facilities housing six to 10 residents, are getting some well-deserved media attention. On June 24, the Wall Street Journal featured a Page 1 story on the Green House movement. For those interested in the subject, we recommend the Alliance issue brief, Changing the Nursing Home Culture, written by Alliance health policy associate Deanna Okrent, and our related briefing. Both were cosponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Issue Brief: Employer-Sponsored Coverage


This Alliance issue brief, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers perspective on why employer-sponsored coverage is shrinking and how alarmed we should be about this trend. Written by Lisa Swirsky, senior health policy associate at the Alliance. To download, click here.

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