Health Action 2002 Tool Kit:
Private Insurance Coverage

• Analyzing the Changing Health System: The Path Taken and the Road Beyond (Center for Studying Health System Change)
• Tracking Health Care Costs: Hospitals Surpass Drugs as Key Cost Driver (Center for Studying Health System Change)
• Employer Health Benefits: 2001 Summary of Findings (Kaiser)
• Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends and Outlook (EBRI)
• Job-Based Health Insurance in 2001: Inflation Hits Double Digits, Managed Care Retreats (Health Affairs)
• Workers Paying Bigger Part of Their Health Care Costs (New York Times)
• Expanding Employment-based Health Coverage: Lessons from Six State and Local Programs (The Commonwealth Fund)
• Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the House Version of Patients' Rights (National Partnership for Women & Families)
• A Guide to the Federal Patients' Bill of Rights Debate (Kaiser)
• An Overview of Managed Care Liability: Implications for Patient Rights and Federal and State Reform (AARP)
• Patients' Bill of Rights Would Also Foster Development of Ombudsman Programs to Assist Health Consumers (Families USA)
• The Ombudsmen (The Washington Post)
• Designing a Consumer Health Assistance Program (Families USA)
• The Impact of the Health Rights Hotline (Health Rights Hotline)
• Does Managed Care Enable More Low Income Persons to Identify a Usual Source of Care? (Center for Studying Health System Change)
• Healthy Pay for Health Plan Executives (Families USA)
• Consumer Behavior Is Driving the Commercial Managed Care Market From the "Closed-Panel" HMO to the More Open POS and PPO Models(CMS)
• The Olmstead Case, Two Years Later: States in Varying Stages of Compliance (NCSL)

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