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This report explores the under-appreciated problems facing American youth in our health care system. It examines the status quo, looking particularly at the coverage crisis affecting young people, the consequences a lack of quality coverage can impose on their lives, and the inadequacy of the school-based policies many universities offer their students. |
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Without health care reform, the United States is projected to spend over $40 trillion on health care in the next decade.
Experts estimate that thirty percent of that spending – up to $12 trillion dollars – will be wasted on ineffective care, pointless red tape, and counterproductive treatments that can actually harm patients. |
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When it comes to health care, American small business owners are getting a raw deal. While the current insurance marketplace offers some options to larger employers, it too often leaves small business owners on the outside looking in. They face unpredictable changes in costs, and far too often they are forced to choose between covering employees and the very survival of their businesses. |
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California’s health care system is broken. Costs are rising faster than either inflation or wages, and wasteful spending is a major culprit. |
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As Congressional and public debate over health care reform grows more intense, comparative effectiveness research (CER) has emerged as an unlikely flashpoint of controversy. |
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The high cost of health care in the U.S. imposes an increasing burden on households, businesses, government, and our country’s economy – a burden made heavier by the current economic crisis.
To incentive efficiency and get costs under control, the U.S. should require health plans and insurers to spend at least 85 percent of revenue on health care.
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The high cost of health care in California imposes an increasing burden on households, businesses, government, and the state’s economy – a burden made heavier by the current economic crisis. To incentive efficiency and get costs under control, California should require health plans and insurers to spend at least 85 percent of revenue on health care. |
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As Congress starts work on a health reform bill, "Paying for What Works" identifies a path to lower costs, not by cutting care, but by delivering better, more efficient care.
This policy primer examines the core problem with the America’s health care delivery system: the skewed payment incentives that drive up costs and undermine quality of care. |
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There are fewer regulations placed on the health insurance industry in Illinois than in most other states, leaving insurance companies less accountable to the consumers they serve. Regulation in other states can provide a model to increase consumer accountability and protections and strengthen the marketplace. |
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This report examines three important sources of unproductive health care spending. We conclude with a package of urgently needed reforms which target those causes, improve quality of care, and rein in this unnecessary spending. |
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Oregon businesses and consumers are facing unsustainable increases health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs, with health care costs rising at more than double the rate of inflation. Given this, Oregon officials are developing a major health reform plan to cut costs, improve health outcomes, and ensure Oregonians have access to affordable quality health care. |
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By finding ways to cut waste in its health care system and to reform an incentive structure that encourages overspending, California can reduce the burden that health care costs impose on our economy. |
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This white paper examines the rules the drug companies have set for themselves, assesses whether they comply with the minimum requirements of SB 1765, and identifies aspects of the drug company rules that are deeply problematic. |
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Without anyone to negotiate lower prices on their behalf, uninsured Americans pay more on average than what the federal government pays for the same prescription drugs. |
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Prescription drug marketers made deceptive claims to doctors and consumers about 150 different drugs, including Vioxx and OxyContin. |
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Without anyone to negotiate lower prices on their behalf, uninsured Americans pay more on average than what the federal government pays for the same prescription drugs. |
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Without anyone to negotiate lower prices on their behalf, uninsured Americans pay more on average than what the federal government pays for the same prescription drugs |
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Thousands of D.C. Area consumers without prescription drug coverage face price gouging by pharmaceutical manufacturers. |
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