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- Health Benefits in Retirement: Set for Extinction?
- Nearly 18 million people rely on employer-provided retiree health benefits to fill gaps in Medicare's coverage or to provide basic insurance until they reach Medicare age. Rising costs have led many employers to limit benefits, require participants to pay a larger share of the costs, or stop offering coverage at...
- White papers 2005-02-08
- The Medicare Prescription Drug Proposals and Health Insurance Risk
- In order to facilitate a better understanding of the complex issues raised by the current Senate and House proposals to establish a prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries, this paper briefly addresses some fundamentals of the health insurance market, defines key risk-sharing mechanisms, including risk corridors and reinsurance, and identifies...
- White papers 2003-09-04
- Medigap: Prevalence, Premiums, and Opportunities for Reform
- This paper provides an overview of Medicare's coverage gaps and the primary sources of supplemental coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. It focuses particularly on the Medigap market: the effects of standardization, recent premium trends and rating practices, and options for reform. It considers Medigap within the context of Medicare prescription drug...
- White papers 2002-09-09
- Health Savings Accounts: The Fundamentals
- This paper explores the fundamentals of Health Savings Accounts HSAs. While not intended to be an exhaustive review of these accounts, it describes their intellectual and legislative origins and the mechanics of how they work, explores the early returns on how they are faring in the insurance market, and identifies...
- White papers 2005-04-11
- Average Wholesale Price for Prescription Drugs: Is There a More Appropriate Pricing Mechanism?
- This paper defines the Average Wholesale Price AWP, which has become an important benchmark for prescription drug pricing and reimbursement. The paper briefly explains the AWP's various uses in the pricing of prescription drugs, highlights some of the problems that have emerged as a result of the way it is...
- White papers 2002-06-07
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- Inner-city welfare and joblessness: panel looks at causes, solutions.(panel sponsored by the Family Impact Seminar and George Washington University's National Health Policy Forum)
- A panel, led by William Julius Wilson author of the book 'When Work Disappears,' took up a discussion of joblessness and welfare in a Sep 1996 meeting. One success story reviewed by the panel involved the relocation of Steeltech Manufacturing to the inner city area of Milwaukee, WI. As...
- Research articles 1996-09-30
- Controlling Health Costs and Improving Health Care Quality for Retirees
- The problem of how to pay the increasingly costly medical bills of retired Americans is rapidly rising as a national priority, not just among policymakers, but also among the general public. As a result, deeper thinking within the health policy community on two broad issues is taking place: How changes...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Former Surgeons General, Members of Congress to Discuss Disparities in Healthcare at National Policy Forum April 9 in Washington
- WASHINGTON, April 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two former U.S. Surgeons General and Members of Congress will meet Wednesday, April 9, in Washington, D.C., to discuss and raise awareness of disparities in our nation's health care delivery system and how to improveWASHINGTON, April 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two former U.S. Surgeons...
- Research articles 2003-04-07
- Aetna Wins Innovation and Excellence Award for Integrated Diabetes Program; America's Health Insurance Plans Foundation honors Aetna's efforts to integrate disease management services
- HARTFORD, Conn. -- America's Health Insurance Plans AHIP recognized Aetna (NYSE:AET) yesterday with the 2006 Large/Affiliated Innovation and Excellence Award: Chronic Care for the company's integrated approach to helping members with diabetes manage their condition. The award was given to Aetna this week at the AHIP Foundation's Innovation and Excellence...
- Research articles 2006-03-07
- Healthcare Roundup: Enthoven's Take on Reform, Help For Small Practices, Docs Drop Credit Cards, and More
- Eminent Economist Speaks - Alain Enthoven, a professor emeritus of management at Stanford University, has weighed in against the public option that many Democrats espouse. In a New York Times op-ed piece cowritten with David Riemer, director of the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute in Milwaukee, Enthoven, who supplied much...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Obama's open-government director opens up
- On Tuesday morning, the Obama administration formally unveiled its Open Government directive, an effort aimed at weaving the philosophies of openness, transparency and participation into the DNA of the federal government and its agencies.That directive comes as a direct result of President Barack Obama's first executive action, on January 21,...
- News items 2009-12-08
- Aging
- Aging boomers driving health policy debate Kansans had a chance Wednesday to send a message to President Bush and Congress about what national policy changes should be made to care for seniors. Their suggestions, solicited during a forum in Topeka, will be passed to national leaders...
- Research articles 2005-07-14
- Mashable's Weekly Guide to Social Media Conferences and Events
- It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Mashable's Weekly Conference and Event Guide
- It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Mashable's Weekly Guide to Events in Social Media
- It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Mashable's Weekly Conference Guide to Everything Social Media
- It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month...
- News items 2009-11-02
- U.S. Facing Affordable Housing Crisis; Mayors Urge Bush Administrati on, Congress to Pay Attention, Prepare Report on Housing Solutions
- WASHINGTON, May 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Mayors, members of Congress, housing policy experts, and representatives of the public health, public education, senior citizen, labor, and business communities attending a National Housing Forum today urged the Bush WASHINGTON, May 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Mayors, members of Congress, housing policy experts, and...
- Research articles 2002-05-21
- How to Take Parental Leave
- Taking time off from work to care for a new child may be a federal right for many American workers, but doing it without mapping out a sound strategy can derail your career. Know Your Rights Goal: Determine exactly how...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- CHSWC Background Paper on the Impact of Terrorism and California Workers' Compensation
- In June 2004, the members of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation CHSWC voted to approve an educational forum on the relationship among terrorism risk, insurance, national security and public policy. The purpose of this background paper is to provide information on the impact of issues of...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- The Politics of Pathology.
- Education is an important part of securing research funds needed to cure disease. By communicating directly with the public and legislators, medical researchers and health care organizations can bring specific diseases into the policy-making foreground. Establishing a public forum within the National Institutes of Health would ensure that American citizens...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
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