Academic Health and Education Issues - Policies & Cost Impact
- How sequestration will hurt patients
The Hill.com - By Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., president and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges - Slower Growth Of Health Costs Narrows Deficit By Annie Lowrey
The New York Times - February 12, 2013 Tuesday
Late Edition - Final (from Lexis Nexis) - The Report online. Report from the Congressional Budget Office highlighted what the NY Times called, "A sharp and surprisingly persistent slowdown in the growth of health care costs..."
- Community Research Partnerships Underappreciated Challenges, Unrealized Opportunities Jennifer Kulynych, JD, PhD; Kate Gallin Heffernan, JD JAMA. 2013;309(6):555-556.
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Local Health Care Reform
- Dr. Karen DeSalvo explains how national healthcare overhaul will affect Louisiana and New Orleans.View this video from New Wave (April 1, 2010).
Organizations
- Kaiser Family Foundation.Jane An, Romy Saloner, and Usha Ranji of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Updated: January 2008. - The Urban Institute - Health Policy Center
Recommended Article
- New Yorker magazine, entitled, “GETTING THERE FROM HERE, How should Obama reform health care?” by Atul Gawande From newyorker.com - January 26, 2009
CQ researcher
- Health-care reform.Clemmitt, M. (2009, August 28). Health-care reform. CQ Researcher, 19, 693-716. Retrieved December 10, 2009, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2009082800.
Health Reform - PUBLIC LAW 111–148—MAR. 23, 2010 124 STAT. 119
- Supreme Court Opinion - No. 11–393. No. 11–393. Argued March 26, 27, 28, 2012—Decided June 28, 2012*
- HealthCare.gov HHS Issues Special Report on Health Reform
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- 124 STAT. 119 PDF version
- About the Law
- Full Law by Section
- Hear the Bill Volunteers recorded the bills for the vision-impaired or aurally oriented. Many pages are available for downloading.
Suggested websites for further information:
- Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE) Rand Corportaion
- Comparison of new Health Care Reform Law and other proposals Kaiser Family Foundation
- The Commonwealth Fund
- New York Times Topics: Health Care Reform
- Families USASee section: Health Reform Central
- Health Affairs
- Health Affairs: Health Policy BriefKey Issues in Health Reform
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
- PolitiFact.com - Health Care statementsFor fact-checking
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative Bridges To Excellence®, PROMETHEUS Payment
Testimony
- Growth in Health Care CostsJan 31, 2008 ... of health care costs has been the emergence, adoption, ... increase in health care costs as a share of GDP—from 12.5 percent in 1999 to 14.5 percent in 2005.
- American Health: Demographics and Spending of HealthCare ConsumersA comprehensive look at the demand for health care.
- The Mental Health Context - WHO Publication, 2003The burden of mental health disorders.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. NBER activities are organized into Programs and Working Groups. The major programs that are of interest to health research are the NBER Health Care Program and the NBER Program in Health Economics which focuses on the determinants of health.
- NBER Papers in Health Care
- NBER Papers in Health Economics
- Vital Statistics Birth Data at the NBER Data Sets Available for download
- Current Population Survey (CPS) Data at the NBER Data sets available for download
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online)
Center for Studying Health System Change
Technology and health care costs
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PubMed - U.S. Health Care Costs
2009 Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report
"HHS and Department of Justice officials release an annual report demonstrating the government’s efforts in fighting health care fraud as well as used the opportunity to highlight the health care reform legislation’s new tools for bolstering existing initiatives.
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