New on the Web 40 (November 2007)
From the California Health Care Foundation: “No Appointment Needed: The Resurgence of Urgent Care Centers in the United States”
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “Expanding Children’s Health Insurance and Raising Federal Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families,” “Poor Children First-Or Last? Watch What the Administration Is Doing, Not What It Is Saying.”
From the Citizens Health Care Working Group: “Health Care that Works for All Americans”
From the Employment Benefit Research Institute: "Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends,” “2007 Health Confidence Survey: Rising Health Care Costs Are Changing the Ways Americans Use the Health Care System”
From the Kaiser Family Foundation: “The Burden of Out-of-Pocket Spending among Older Versus Younger Adults: Analysis from the Consumer Expenditure,” “Characteristics of Frequent Emergency Department Users,” “Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics, by State, 2008 Stand Alone Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs),” “Tracking Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plans: Monthly Report of September 2007”
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: “The Uninsured: A Primer,” “What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006?”
From the Kaiser Health Security Watch: “Health Care Worries in the Context with Other Worries”
From the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Guttmacher Institute: “Medicaid’s Role in Family Planning”
From Mathematica Policy Research Inc.: “National Evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program: A Decade of Expanding Coverage and Improving Access”
From NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health: “Public Views on SCHIP Reauthorization Survey Highlights”
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: “Improving Quality of Health Care Relies on Effective Language Services”
From the Urban Institute: “Can the President’s Health Care Tax Proposal Serve as an Effective Substitute for SCHIP Expansion?” “Increasing Health Insurance Coverage to Workers in Small Firms: Challenges and Strategies”
From the California Health Care Foundation
No Appointment Needed: The Resurgence of Urgent Care Centers in the United States explains what urgent care centers are, how they operate, and the role they play in the health care system. It also explores key issues and questions related to how urgent care centers are currently faring, as well as their future prospects. (September 2007)
From The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The White House has claimed that increasing the federal tobacco tax to pay for a CHIP expansion is bad policy because 1) It would primarily be paid for by low-income people, since most smokers have low incomes, and 2) It would create a “middle-class entitlement.” Expanding Children’s Health Insurance and Raising Federal Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families discredits these claims and explains why using a tobacco tax increase to fund CHIP would be beneficial. (October 2007)
Poor Children First—Or Last? Watch What the Administration Is Doing, Not What It Is Saying examines President Bush’s claim that CHIP violates the “poor children first” principle, revealing that the opposite is true. (October 2007)
From the Citizens’ Health Care Working Group
Health Care that Works for All Americans is a set of six recommendations for health care reform addressed to Congress and the President. The first recommendation suggests establishing a public policy ensuring that all Americans have affordable health care. (October 2007).
From the Employee Benefit Research Institute
Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends, 2006 examines the level of participation by workers in public and private-sector employment-based pension or retirement plans. (November 2007)
2007 Health Confidence Survey: Rising Health Care Costs Are Changing the Ways Americans Use the Health Care System is the 10th annual survey to assess the attitudes of the American public regarding the U.S. health care system. It finds that most people (six out of 10) are getting hit with increasingly high health costs. (November 2007)
From the Kaiser Family Foundation
The Burden of Out-of-Pocket Health Spending among Older Versus Younger Adults: Analysis from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1998-2003 compares the ratio of out-of-pocket health care spending to income among people under age 65 to the ratio for people age 65 and older over the period from 1998-2003. It finds that those over 65 spend far more on health care and have substantially lower incomes than do adults under 65. (September 2007)
Characteristics of Frequent Emergency Department Users uses data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS) to examine the demographic and health characteristics of people who frequently use hospital EDs. (October 2007)
Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics, by State, 2008 Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Plans is a quick fact sheet that shows the number and type of prescription drug plans being offered in each state. (October 2007).
Tracking Medicare Health and Prescription Drug Plans Monthly Report for September 2007 charts the private plan offerings, enrollment status, and changes within Medicare Part D. (October 2007)
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
The Uninsured: A Primer presents basic information about the uninsured—who they are and why they do not have health coverage. It also explores the difference that health insurance makes in people’s lives, provides a summary of how and why the number of uninsured is growing, and discusses currently proposed solutions. (October 2007)
The year 2006 was marked by economic recovery, yet the number of uninsured continued to increase. What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006? attempts to explain why. (September 2007)
From the Kaiser Health Security Watch
Health Care in Context with Other Worries finds that health care worries rank ahead of other non-health concerns for the public, including concerns about not being able to pay rent or a mortgage, and being the victim of a terrorist attack. (October 2007).
Medicaid’s Role in Family Planning reviews the role of Medicaid in financing and promoting access to family planning services for low-income women. For example, it examines the extent to which women of reproductive age rely on Medicaid for their care, as well as the special status and range of services covered under the rubric of family planning. (October 2007)
From Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
National Evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program: A Decade of Expanding Coverage and Improving Access contains seven components to its evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, including an analysis of SCHIP enrollment, disenrollment, and reenrollment patterns based on the SCHIP Enrollment Data System. (September 2007)
From NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health
Public Views on SCHIP Reauthorization Survey Highlights finds strong majority support for the reauthorization and expansion of SCHIP. As many as seven in 10 Americans say they back the program. (October 2007)
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the George Washington University of Public Health and Health Services
Improving Quality of Health Care Relies on Effective Language Services explains how assessing and improving the language services offered to patients in America’s hospitals would not only improve communication, but it would also significantly improve the quality of patient care. (October 2007)
From the Urban Institute
Can the President’s Health Care Tax Proposal Serve as an Effective Substitute for SCHIP Expansion? compares the financial burden that parents would incur in obtaining coverage for their children under the President’s tax deduction proposal against that associated with SCHIP and finds that the financial burden would be much higher under the President’s proposal. (October 2007)
Increasing Health Insurance Coverage of Workers in Small Firms: Challenges and Strategies: Testimony before the Finance Committee United States Senate calls for a reduction of small business owners that are uninsured. It suggests income-related subsidization of insurance coverage. (October 2007)
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