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A Close Look at Health Care
These issue briefs from CAP's health experts can help you better understand some of the key concepts factoring into the health reform debate.
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CAP proposes a bold but practical approach to guaranteeing an American right to affordable, quality health coverage.
There's No Excuse
See CAP's new idea, a Wellness Trust, and reports by other experts on overhauling the American health care system.
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Book brings together health policy experts and practitioners to put forward recommendations that address key health delivery issues.Other Health Care Features
February 3, 2010
How Health Reform Would Help Women
A by-the-numbers look at how women are particularly affected under our broken health care system and why we cannot afford to miss this opportunity to fix it.
February 2, 2010
A Move to Close the Health Care Disparities Gap
Lesley Russell details provisions in President Barack Obama’s proposed federal budget that would help racial and ethnic minorities get better health care.
February 2, 2010
Healthy Budget, Healthy Nation
The president’s budget builds on current health care investments while underscoring the need for comprehensive health care reform, write Karen Davenport and Ellen-Marie Whelan.
January 29, 2010
Health Reform Gives Americans What They're Looking For
President Obama reiterated his call for comprehensive health reform in his State of the Union address, and CAP shows how passing health reform helps Americans and the economy.
January 28, 2010
The Foundations of Economic Recovery and Growth
Michael Ettlinger and Heather Boushey provide analysis of President Obama’s solutions for economic recovery and long-term growth: job creation, regulatory reform, health care reform, a clean energy economy, and improvements to education—all achieved in a fiscally responsible way.
January 27, 2010
A Dark Picture of America Without Health Reform
The CBO’s annual budget and economic forecast shows a bleak outcome for the budget and the economy without comprehensive health care reform, writes Karen Davenport.
January 27, 2010
Health Reform and the Economy by the Numbers
This by-the-numbers look at health care and the economy shows that health care reform would create jobs, save money, and help the economy.
January 20, 2010
Interactive: Health Care Reform and You
Updated interactive calculator allows you to see how health reform will affect you and you family, including your insurance status and tax payments.
January 19, 2010
Don’t Handicap the Reform: Protecting Integrated Care Systems
Congress is preparing to finalize a health care bill for both chambers to consider. The purpose of healthcare reform is to increase the number of insured, improve the level of health care and reduce health care spending. Although there are many disputes in the health care debate, two issues seem clear. First, integrated health care systems, which combine payment and health care delivery, are superior in delivering high quality health care and controlling health care costs. Second, traditional health insurers that focus solely on payment dominate health insurance markets, resulting in escalating costs, higher premiums and the chronic problems of the uninsured.
January 15, 2010
Closing the Health Care Workforce Gap
Report from Daniel J. Derksen and Ellen-Marie Whelan reforming federal health care workforce policies to meet 21st century needs.
January 15, 2010
Health Disparities in LGBT Communities of Color
A by-the-numbers breakdown of health care in LGBT communities by race and ethnicity shows how a person’s race and sexual orientation affect their care.
January 15, 2010
Racial Health Disparities by the Numbers
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we still have a long way to go on bringing equality to our health care system.
January 13, 2010
How Ideology Trumped Science
Scott H. Evertz discusses how the Obama administration can reform the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
January 8, 2010
New Jobs Through Better Health Care
David Cutler and Neeraj Sood examine the potential impact of health care reform on employment growth in the new decade.
December 24, 2009
A Historic Reform
Statement from John D. Podesta on Senate passage of historic health care reform legislation.
December 18, 2009
Weekly Round Up: December 14 - 18, 2009
This week CAP provided more dispatches from Copenhagen, identified racial disparities in health care, and outlined a path for balancing the budget.
December 17, 2009
Fact Sheet: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Fact sheet details the gap that racial and ethnic minorities face in health care access, quality, and coverage, and how health reform can help.
December 17, 2009
Equal Health Care for All
Lesley Russell explores racial and ethnic health care disparities and how health care reform could help bridge the gap.
December 10, 2009
Why Older Americans Need Health Reform
A by-the-numbers look at how the health care system comes up short for Americans nearing retirement.
December 9, 2009
Video: Health Care by the Numbers
Can we afford health care reform? With over 46 million Americans uninsured, we can't afford not to. Watch this video for more information.
December 4, 2009
How the Bishops Lost Sight of Their Own Priorities
As longstanding advocates for universal health care, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has played an ongoing, and increasingly controversial, role in health reform. Early in the process, they set out a number of criteria—eight to be exact—that they set as priorities to be included in health reform legislation.
December 1, 2009
The Moral Dimensions of Health Care Reform
Ellen-Marie Whelan and Marta Cook discuss how legislation under consideration in Congress measures up to Catholic social teachings.
December 1, 2009
World AIDS Day 2009
This World AIDS Day, the Obama administration should begin to seriously address the root causes of the AIDS crisis here at home.
November 30, 2009
Getting the Job Done Right: Strengthening the Senate Bill to Fully Protect Competition
Soon after Thanksgiving the debate on health care reform begins in earnest before the Senate. Competition issues, normally a backwater concern for Congress, will be front and center. The Senate will grapple with the difficult question: how to make competition work in health care markets?
November 23, 2009
Ask the Expert: Insurance Companies and Health Reform
Lois Quam discusses why private insurers should support a public option and how the industry has approached the health reform debate.
November 23, 2009
Senate Bill More Closely Preserves Abortion Status Quo
This chart from Jessica Arons shows how current health reform bills treat abortion funding, comparing the House and Senate bills to current law.
November 16, 2009
Stupak Amendment Changes Abortion Status Quo
This chart from Jessica Arons shows how current health reform bills treat abortion funding, comparing the House and Senate bills to the current law.
November 13, 2009
House Health Bill Will Help Unmarried Women
As the Senate debates health reform legislation, it should look to several provisions in the House bill that would help unmarried women, write Liz Weiss and Page Gardner.
November 12, 2009
Seniors' Stake in Health Reform
Report from Marilyn Moon defines what health reform would mean for Medicare beneficiaries.
November 6, 2009
Interactive Map: American Workers Are Rapidly Losing Health Coverage
Interactive map shows that nearly one in five working adults lack health insurance, and 60 percent of the uninsured are employed.
November 5, 2009
Progressive People of Faith Call for Health Reform
Marta Cook highlights what faith groups across the country are doing to support health care reform.
November 5, 2009
Interactive Map: Insurance Market Concentration Creates Fewer Choices
Interactive map from Karen Davenport and Sonia Sekhar shows that one carrier dominates the market in 17 states, and two dominate in 22 more.
November 3, 2009
Why We Need Health Care Reform
Updated fact sheets show how our broken health care system affects people in each state.
November 3, 2009
Expanding the Primary Care Workforce
Our primary care workforce is already stretched; Ellen-Marie Whelan offers solutions for coping with the shortfall, particularly if we achieve health care reform.
November 2, 2009
Health Care Reform Can Treat the National Deficit
Christina Romer explains the link between health care reform and the budget deficit at CAP.
November 2, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Spending Drives Deficits
Without reform, the federal government will spend more on health care in 2019 than any other category, including defense or social security, explains Michael Linden.
October 28, 2009
Unlocking Competition
David Balto and Stephanie Gross on why the federal government needs to eliminate the antitrust exemption for health insurers.
October 27, 2009
Interview with the Makers of "Money-Driven Medicine"
Reel Progress interviews Alex Gibney and Maggie Mahar about their new film, "Money-Driven Medicine."
October 27, 2009
Unmarried and Uninsured
An issue brief from Liz Weiss, Ellen-Marie Whelan, and Jessica Arons explores the barriers single women face in the health insurance market.
October 26, 2009
Health Care Spending Is Driving Future Deficits
CBO estimates that federal spending on health care by 2019 will be the largest category of federal spending, outstripping defense, social security and all other programs, writes Michael Linden.
October 23, 2009
Insurers’ Black Box
Report from Scot J. Paltrow shows how currently secret claims denial rates could tell consumers a lot about their insurance company.
October 22, 2009
Don’t Leave It to the States
David Balto and Stephanie Gross explain why leaving health insurance oversight to state regulators is a dangerous idea.
October 20, 2009
Medical Debt: Can Bankruptcy Reform Facilitate a Fresh Start?
CAP Action Senior Fellow Elizabeth Edwards testifies before the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.
October 19, 2009
The Interview with John Podesta
John Podesta was President Clinton's last chief of staff at the White House. Now from the vantage point of heading the Democrat's favorite think tank, he is an informal advisor to President Barack Obama who is playing high stakes in trying to get his health care plans through. On The Interview Carrie Gracie gets John Podesta's inside view of the president's progress.
October 13, 2009
Why the Savings from Health Care Reform Are Underappreciated
The lack of a whole-hearted, landslide, public embrace of health reform is surprising considering that unless your family earns over $250,000, reform costs you nothing and, the president's health care plan, if enacted, is estimated to increase the income of the average family of four by about $10,000 in 2030.
October 5, 2009
Why Health Reform Is the Right Prescription for Health Professionals and Their Patients
Ellen-Marie Whelan and Mandy Krauthamer go through the health bills and show why health reform is the right prescription for health professionals and their patients.
October 5, 2009
This Week in Congress: October 5-9, 2009
This week Congress continues to debate health care reform and discusses fiscal year 2010 appropriations bills.
October 5, 2009
Ask the Expert: Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Ellen-Marie Whelan explains what it means to "bend the cost curve" on health care and how we can achieve it through health reform.
September 30, 2009
Abortion Funding Fundamentals
This chart from Jessica Arons shows how current health reform bills treat abortion funding, comparing the House and Senate bills to current law.
September 30, 2009
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