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- Health Care Reform: What It Will Cost You
- Despite what you've heard, it won't be only rich people and "inefficiencies" footing the bill. One way or another, whoever you are, you'll share the costs. Here's how. ...
- Articles 2009-08-10
- Your Guide to Health Care Reform
- How health care reform plays out is just as significant for your wallet as it is for the quality of your medical care. Here are the issues to pay close attention to. Health care reform has dominated the news for weeks, and yet with so many proposals on the table...
- Articles 2009-08-11
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- Better Managing New York State's Health Insurance Subsidy Programs
- Most residents believe all fellow New Yorkers should have access to needed medical care. In order to promote this goal, the state's elected officials have authorized and funded multiple programs to make subsidized health insurance available to those with limited incomes. These include a large Medicaid program for the indigent,...
- White papers 2001-09-13
- The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance
- This paper examines the initial effects of the tax subsidy on the demand for health insurance using previously unexamined data from 1953 and 1958. Results suggest that the tax subsidy increased the growth of group insurance, particularly among union members and employed persons. This is a critical effect because group...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- Family Health Insurance Assistance Program (FHIAP): Survey of Enrollees and Individuals on the Reservation List
- This paper discusses The Family Health Insurance Assistance Program FHIAP, which could be an important component of a plan for expanded access. FHIAP was created by the Oregon legislature in 1997, is funded through the state's tobacco tax and provides premium subsidies for uninsured residents of the state who have...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You
- The bills moving through Congress could have a bigger impact on your financial future than any legislation in a long, long time. Here's all you need to know to follow the key issues. ...
- Articles 2009-08-07
- Health Care Reform: The Baucus "Free Rider" Problem
- Editor's Note: Economist Mark Thoma is guest-blogging for The Macro View this week. There is one provision in the Baucus health care proposal that I believe needs to be changed. It's known as the "free rider" provision. Under the Baucus plan, if a worker...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Health Reform And Abortion: The Stupak Amendment Hurts Women
- From the very beginning, a central tenet of health care reform was that no one would lose coverage they already have. That's why so many women are outraged by the Stupak amendment to the health reform legislation recently passed by the House. It goes against one of the fundamental tenets...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Premium Subsidy Programs: Who Enrolls, and How Do They Fare?
- Little is known about who enrolls in state premium subsidy programs or enrollees' experiences. This study surveyed parents of children enrolled in two programs with identical income eligibility requirements: Oregon's State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP and its premium subsidy program FHIAP. Parents choosing FHIAP were more likely to be...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Senate Health Reform Bill: A First Look
- As readers of Health Affairs are undoubtedly already aware, the Senate Democratic leadership has released HR 3590, the 2,074-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill combines the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions HELP Committee bill marked up this summer and the Senate Finance Committee bill marked up...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Health Care Checkup
- Feeling a bit lost in the debate over health care reform? It's understandable. America's health care system was already confusing even before Congress' ideas for changing it. Now, special interests have made things yet murkier. The White House has backed away from its initial support of a government-run insurance program;...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Health Care Is All About The Cost
- The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have set themselves a goal of reforming the U.S. medical system. There are various bills under development in both the House and Senate. The key arguments revolve around how many people will be covered and at what cost. The other...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- House, Senate bills at odds on COBRA premium subsidy.(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON-As a trade bill moves to a congressional conference committee, a key House leader is providing signals on the kind of COBRA health care subsidy he wants in the measure. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif., last week unveiled a health...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
- CA State Senator Wants Workers To Have Insurance
- A California State Senate proposal would require that all California employers offer their workers health insurance or contribute to a fund. Many employers join labor and the doctors in support of the bill, especially those who have paid higher premiums because other employers and competitors that did not offer health...
- Case studies 2003-02-14
- Health Care and the Public Sector
- This paper summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. Optimal insurance balances the marginal costs of risk bearing and moral hazard. In the US, government policy has historically tilted towards more generous insurance, by excluding employer payments for health insurance from income taxation. The welfare loss from...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Little Rock, Ark., Workers, Employers Voice Opinions on Rising Health Costs.
- By Nell Smith, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16--When Sharon Young first learned her health insurance had changed, she didn't really think much about it. Then she saw her paycheck. Even with a $25...
- Research articles 2001-12-16
- Healthcare Roundup: No HLTH-WebMD Merger, Higher Medicaid Spending, Mental-Health Parity, and More
- HLTH, WebMD call off merger -- HLTH, a holding company that currently owns 84 percent of the publicly traded WebMD, pulled the plug on a proposed merger with that subsidiary. The companies cited financial-market uncertainty and difficulty finding a buyer for a second HLTH unit, Porex, which makes plastic products...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Bill would expand health cover tax credit.(News)(unemployment compensation benefits)(Brief Article)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Employees who have lost their jobs and are receiving unemployment compensation benefits would be eligible for a federal subsidy of their health insurance premiums under legislation introduced in the Senate last week. The bill, introduced by Senate Finance...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
- COBRA Proposal Could Counteract Loss of Coverage
- In the economic stimulus package passed by two committees of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 22 is a provision that could have a significant, long-range impact on health care if it’s included in the final version of the bill approved by Congress. The House Ways...
- Blog posts 2009-01-24
- Hiding In Plain Sight: Using Medicare To Solve The â??Public Optionâ?? Conundrum
- By JEFF GOLDSMITH As Senate and House Committee versions of health reform move toward unified legislation and floor votes, the most complex political challenge is how to resolve the "public option" controversy. While one would have thought weightier issues such as the shape of Medicare reform, the taxation required to...
- News items 2009-10-21
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