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| Harry and Louise are back! Watch their latest video supporting healthcare reform. |
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| "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007". August, 2008. U.S. Census Bureau Report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage based on 2008 supplementary census data. |
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| "New Census Data on Uninsured Children", Aug. 26, 2008. Statement on the Census study by Cindy Mann, Georgetown University Health Policy Initiative Center for Children and Families. |
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| "Kaiser Family Foundation 2008 study on the uninsured".
Aug. 25, 2008. Report examines the current spending on care for the uninsured and projects additional medical spending if the population had health insurance coverage. In addition, the study finds that the uninsured will spend $30 billion out-of-pocket for health care in 2008 while receiving $56 billion in uncompensated care, three quarters of which will be from government sources. |
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| "Expanding Medicaid a Less Costly Way to Cover More Low Income Uninsured Than Expanding Private Insurance", June 26, 2008. Report based on research by
by Leighton Ku of George Washington University and Matthew Broaddus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and published by the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities. |
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| "U.S. Variations in Child Health System Performance; a State Scorecard," May, 2008 Report of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Findings include a wide variation among states including distinct regional patterns. |
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Reform Matters: Making Real Progress for Women and Health Care, 2008. Project
The National Women's Law Center's
encourages women to be active and vocal advocates in the fight for progressive health care reform and to address the barriers to health care that women face.
Check out their resources and make sure to browse their series of weekly blog posts on women and health reform.
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| "Seven Reasons Why Health Care Reform is a Women's Issue," 2008. Article by Susan Sered published by the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University highlights 7 key reasons why women are most in need of health care reform. |
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| "Graduating? Heed Health Care Insurance? Maryland's Got you Covered," April, 2008 Health Care For All! flyer |
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| "Maryland Hit By Physician Shortage," Jan 7, 2008. Study by the MD State Medical Society highlights the growing shortage of doctors in clinical practice. |
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| "10 Things to Know about Health," April, 2008. Article with a list of 10 things that make us sick. From the PBS miniseries "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" |
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| "Americans Rank Health Care Near the Top of Their Economic Woes," April 29, 2008. Press release from the Kaiser Family Foundation with results of a new poll ranking health care as a top concern. |
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| "The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States," April, 2008. Report in the Journal PLoS Medicine that highlights that
US women's life expectancy has gone down. NY Times article. |
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| "Individuals Pay Health Care Costs, Not Employers and Government," Mar.27, 2008. News summary from Chicago Tribune in Cover the Uninsured. |
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| "Support for National Health Insurance Among U.S. Physicians, 5 Years Later," Mar. 31, 2008. Report by
Aaron E. Carroll and Ronald T. Ackermann shows
shows a solid majority of doctors — 59 percent — now supports national health insurance. |
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| "Cost of Failure: The Economic Losses of the Uninsured", Mar. 25, 2008. New American Foundation report estimates that the poor health and shorter lifespan of the uninsured cost the U.S. economy between $102 billion and $204 billion in 2006
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| "Washington Post Columnist Examines Effects of Growing Uninsured Population", Mar. 17, 2008. Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, Article
examines how the increasing number of uninsured affects all U.S. residents, even those with health coverage. |
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| "Women's Health Policy: Coverage and Access to Care," Feb. 2008 by The Henry J. Keiser Foundation. Video tutorial discusses issues of importance for women related to their health coverage and access to care, and reviews the central policy challenges in improving women's access to care. |
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| "Uninsured and Dying Because of It: Updating the Institute of Medicine Analysis on the Impact of Uninsurance on Mortality," Jan. 2008, by Stan Dorn of the Urban Institute. Report. As many as 27,000 Americans may have died in 2006 from delaying treatment for medical conditions because they lacked health insurance. |
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| "The Public's Views on Health Care Reform in the 2008 Presidential Election", Jan. 2008, Sara Collins and Jennifer Kreiss, The Commonwealth Fund. Report |
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| "What Women Want: How to Talk to Women About Health Care," Dec. 12.
Celinda Lake, Lake Research, Presentation |
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| "Beyond the Sound Bite: Review of Presidential Candidates Health Care Proposals," Nov. 2007,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers comparative analysis of the various proposals for health care reform. Report |
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"The First National Report Card on Quality of Health Care in America," 2006
Rand Corporation sponsored the largest and most comprehensive research on the quality of health care in the U.S. Report |
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| "Making the Grade on Women's Health: A National and State-by- State Report Card," 2007 Sponsored by the National Women's Law Center and Oregon Health & Science University. Report |
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| "American Families Face Harsh Reality: 2,000 Children Join the Ranks of Uninsured Each Day," Oct., 2007, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families. White Paper. |
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| " Concerns about Parents Dropping Employer Coverage to Enroll in SCHIP Overlook Issues of Affordability ," Oct. 1, 2007. Covered the Uninsured, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Report documents that low-income families have difficulty affording employer-sponsored insurance when measured on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services affordability scale. The report also shows that Medicaid and SCHIP make health care affordable for low-income families by limiting premiums and other out-of-pocket spending. |
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| " Eligible but Not Enrolled: How SCHIP Reauthorization Can Help," Sept. 24, 2007.Covered the Uninsured, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Report outlines how SCHIP reauthorization could give states the flexibility to adopt innovative outreach strategies recently developed by Medicare to enroll eligible low-income kids. |
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| "The Success of SCHIP: How SCHIP Helps America's Working Families", Cover the Uninsured Report. Personal stories of children positively impacted by the success of the SCHIP program. |
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| "Employer Health Benefits 2007 Annual Survey", Kaiser Family Foundation, 2007.
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 6.1 percent in 2007, less than the 7.7 percent increase reported last year but still higher than the increase in workers' wages (3.7 percent) or the overall inflation rate (2.6 percent), according to the 2007 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust. |
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| "Health Care Reform - A Women's Issue", National Womens Health Network, March/April 2007. Article which articulates why health care reform is essentially a women's issue because women are deeply impacted by poor health care. |
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"On the Comeback Trail," by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A, originally published in Modern Healthcare, Oct. 30, 2006. The author, who is President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, states that "The paralysis is about to end. While health care will not determine the outcome of the 2006 midterm elections, it will be the dominating domestic issue in the 2008 presidential campaigns." The full article can be found at the Foundation's website.
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| “Access to Care, Health Status and Health Disparities in the United States and Canada: Results of a Cross-National Based Survey” by Karen E. Lasser, M.D., posted June 23, 2006 on Medscape.com. Note: Medscape requires (free) registration to view articles. |
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| "Diagnosing Women's Health Care" by Alina Salganicoff, Summer, 2006, National Council of Jewish Women Journal, special issue on "Facing the Crisis on Women's Health Care." |
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| "AARP Maryland Key Vote News Alert" details how each Delegate voted on 3/16/7 on the successful bill HR 754 to expand Medicaid and fund the expansion with a tobacco tax |
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| A nationwide poll after the 2006 elections shows broad support for health care reform. The top health priorities were expanding coverage for the uninsured and reducing health care costs. 73% of Democratic voters say they would like to see the 2008 presidential candidates make a major effort to provide near universal coverage, even with a hike in spending. Almost 2/3 (64%) of the public believes government can do a lot to address the cost of health care. Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation said, “Health care is well positioned to emerge as a top national issue in 2008 and beyond.” |
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| US Census Data report on health insurance coverage for women not good news. Since 2000, some 2.9 million women have joined the ranks of the uninsured, including 535,000 in 2005 alone . The percent of women without health coverage rose from 13.8% in 2000 to 15.6% in 2005, a faster increase for women than the overall population. Since 2000, the Medicaid safety net caught some 2.2 million more women, keeping them from being uninsured. |
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| In just two years, Maine's Dirigo Health Program open to all residents is providing health care to more than 15,400 Mainers, including 2,300 small businesses and has saved Maine over $78 million. Press release of the Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation. |
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