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- How Private Insurers Could Compete With a Public Plan
- The Commonwealth Fund, one of the principal sources of health policy ideas for the Obama Administration, has estimated the potential savings of three different insurance reform scenarios from 2010 to 2020. Assuming that unspecified Medicare reforms and delivery system changes were implemented within a framework of universal coverage, the report...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
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- New Commonwealth Fund Survey on Quality of Health Care for Minority Americans to be Released March 6
- News Advisory: The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by the year 2050 half of the U.S. population will be members of a minority group. Given this fact, it is critical to assess how well our health care system is serving our increasingly diverse population and where improvements are needed. On...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Commonwealth Fund CEO says U.S. system faces `serious problems'.(Karen Davis)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Despite great promise from biotechnology, gene therapy and medical research, the U.S. health care system faces serious problems that the country can and should do a lot more to solve, according to Karen Davis, president of The Commonwealth Fund. A philanthropic foundation established to...
- Research articles 2000-07-01
- Commonwealth Fund: African Americans in Medicare Managed Care Less Likely Than Whites to Get Critical Health Care
- NEW YORK, March 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- African Americans are less likely than whites to receive recommended clinical care in four key quality areas, according to a new study of Medicare managed care enrollees published in the March 13, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA....
- Research articles 2002-03-13
- The Commonwealth Fund: Health Insurance Retention Seen As Key To Reducing The Number of Uninsured Americans
- NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The number of uninsured, low- income children would decline by nearly 40 percent and the number of uninsured adults would decline by more than one-quarter if every person with public or private health coverage at the beginning of a given year retained it...
- Research articles 2002-12-03
- The Commonwealth Fund: One-Fifth Of New York Seniors Skipped Doses Or Didn't Fill Prescriptions Because Of Cost
- NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- While New York State has one of the largest and most effective senior drug assistance programs in the country, nearly one in five seniors living in New York had no coverage for medications in 2001, according to a new report from The Commonwealth...
- Research articles 2002-12-05
- The Commonwealth Fund: Medicare(plus)Choice Enrollees Faced Rising Premiums, Benefit Cuts, Increased Costs In 2002
- NEW YORK, Nov. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MedicareplusChoice plans cut back on benefits such as prescription drug coverage in 2002 while enrollees faced a 40 percent rise in monthly premiums and substantial cost-sharing increases for their health care, according to two new reports from The Commonwealth Fund. The increases weighed...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- The Commonwealth Fund: State Strategies Work To Expand Health Insurance Coverage
- NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Faced with inaction on the federal level to stem the rising tide of uninsured, states are carrying out their own innovative programs to increase the number of residents with health insurance coverage. A new report from The Commonwealth Fund profiles such programs in...
- Research articles 2002-11-19
- Government Regulations Contribute to Medical Debt of Uninsured and Underinsured, Says The Commonwealth Fund
- NEW YORK, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- According to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, some patients face unmanageable medical bills that can result in long-term debt because of unclear federal laws and regulations. These rules may encourage health care providers to bill the uninsured more than those...
- Research articles 2003-06-04
- Commonwealth Fund: Hispanics Face High Rates of Unstable Health Care Coverage, Low Rates of Preventive Care
- NEW YORK, Oct. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nearly half (45 percent) of Hispanics under age 65 and two-thirds (65 percent) of working-age Hispanics with low incomes were uninsured for all or part of the year in 2000, according to a new analysis by The Commonwealth Fund. Uninsured Hispanics have low...
- Research articles 2003-10-16
- The Commonwealth Fund: Number of Workers in Large Firms Without Health Insurance Growing Significantly
- NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The number of uninsured workers in large firms is up sharply, signaling warnings about new trends among businesses that traditionally are the most likely to offer health benefits, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. As of 2001, more than one...
- Research articles 2003-10-21
- 85 Million Americans Had No Health Insurance at Some Point During Four Years, 1996-1999, Says The Commonwealth Fund
- NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nearly two of five (38 percent) Americans under age 65, and more than two-thirds (68 percent) of those with low incomes, had no health insurance at some point during 1996-1999, according to a new analysis for The Commonwealth Fund of a survey that...
- Research articles 2003-11-12
- Insurers, government should pay for special services provided by AMCs, new report says.(The Commonwealth Fund Task Force report on academic medical centers)(Brief Article)
- Academic Medical Centers AMCs fulfill a number of essential societal health care needs, but may be forced to reduce or end their role if insurers and the government don't begin reimbursing fairly for these services, concludes a new report by The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Politics vs. Reality in Healthcare Reform
- Because of their unwillingness to control costs by restructuring the health care delivery system, the Democratic reformers are focusing on insurance reform and, particularly, the public option. As I said in a recent post, I still favor their brand of reform over no reform, because it would expand coverage and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Chancellor and Sir Edward George pledge more money for Commonwealth Education Fund.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-24 September 2002-UK Government: Chancellor and Sir Edward George pledge more money for Commonwealth Education Fund C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09242002 Chancellor Gordon Brown, and Governor of the Bank of England Sir Edward George, today announced the auction...
- Research articles 2002-09-24
- The MicroCap Fund issues statement; Michael S. Falk of Commonwealth Associates makes factual errors on the MicroCap Fund
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 23, 1996--To correct the April 22 press release issued by Michael S. Falk of Commonwealth Associates, a spokeswoman for The MicroCap Fund released the following statement."It appears Michael S. Falk, the chief executive officer of Commonwealth Associates, a registered broker-dealer, and ex-chairman of The MicroCap Fund, as...
- Research articles 1996-04-23
- The MicroCap Fund filed an action today against Commonwealth Associates, Michael S. Falk, and Steven Warner
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 19, 1996--The MicroCap Fund Inc. (NASDAQ:MCAP) today announced that it filed an action today against Commonwealth Associates, a registered broker-dealer, Michael S. Falk, Commonwealth's chief executive, a majority owner, and a director of MicroCap, and Steven Warner, a former Commonwealth executive and former president of MicroCap.Commonwealth Associates...
- Research articles 1996-04-19
- Individual Insurance Mandate Ignites Debate
- A grand bargain on healthcare reform is being shaped behind the scenes, The New York Times reports. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s office has hosted meetings among the major national stakeholders, and a consensus has emerged that all Americans should be required to purchase insurance. But James P. Gelfand, senior manager of...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Fitch Rates Virginia Port Auth Commonwealth $60MM Revs 'AA+'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA+' rating to $60.0 million Virginia Port Authority commonwealth port fund revenue bonds (2002 resolution), series 2005. The bonds are expected March 29 through negotiation with a syndicate led by Morgan Keegan & Company and will mature June 30, 2005-2030. Call details are...
- Research articles 2005-03-17
- CBA lags rivals on super choice.(Commonwealth Bank of Australia)(Brief Article)
- Apr 12, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA is still considering its superannuation policy. Under existing enterprise bargaining contracts, all of the CBA's 31,000 Australian workers are tied to the bank's corporate fund, Officers' Super...
- Research articles 2005-04-12
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