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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.
Progressive Prescriptions
CAP proposes a bold but practical approach to guaranteeing an American right to affordable, quality health coverage.
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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
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 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
Seniors Suffering
Seniors and older Americans are especially vulnerable to skyrocketing costs and abusive insurance company practices under the current health care system.
September 29, 2009
Stronger Health Through Enhanced Information
Physician and former White House Fellow Brian Alexander explains how comparative effectiveness research will improve health quality and costs.
September 29, 2009
Better Health Through Better Information
Issue brief from Ellen-Marie Whelan and Sonia Sekhar explains how comparative effectiveness research will help deliver better health care.
September 29, 2009
Ask the Expert: Senator Tom Daschle on How Health Reform Helps Seniors
Senator Tom Daschle discusses how all seniors will benefit from health care reform and why we can't afford not to improve our health care system.
September 21, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Helps Women and Families
Senator Tom Daschle discusses how health care reform will help women and families, and why incremental reform won't work.
September 17, 2009
Why a Public Health Insurance Option Is Essential
David Balto argues in Health Affairs that incremental reforms without a public option will be smothered by health insurers with decades of experience manipulating the market.
September 15, 2009
Family Health Spending to Rise Rapidly
Growing health care costs are becoming unsustainable for the more than 160 million Americans with employer-sponsored care, writes Sonia Sekhar.
September 10, 2009
Ask the Expert: President Obama Moves the Health Debate Forward
Karen Davenport provides analysis of President Obama's health care speech and insight into what we can expect in the weeks to come.
September 10, 2009
Census Losses in Health Coverage Make Reform More Urgent
Comprehensive health reform is critical as employer-based coverage continues to decline, argues Karen Davenport.
September 9, 2009
Why Women Stand to Gain the Most From Health Care Reform
Women have everything to gain if meaningful health care reform succeeds and everything to lose if it fails. Why? Because the current system discriminates against women in numerous ways.
August 31, 2009
Interactive: Health Care Reform and You
Interactive calculator allows you to see how health reform will effect you and you family, including your insurance status and tax payments.
August 26, 2009
You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform
No industry has more to gain—or lose—from health reform as private, for-profit insurance companies, writes Scott Lilly.
August 25, 2009
How the Health Insurance Exchange Really Works
The health exchange is an important, yet complex component of health reform. This video explains what it is and how it works.
August 25, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Will Help the Insured and the Sick
Tom Daschle discusses how health reform will help Americans who have insurance and how it aids those with health problems.
August 19, 2009
Atta Boy, Barney
Sam Fulwood wonders why more health reform proponents aren't fighting back against conservative misinformation with logic, reason, and courage.
August 18, 2009
Small Businesses Win With Health Reform
Health reform legislation has particular benefits for small businesses; this calculator will shows you how much your small business could benefit.
August 18, 2009
Ask the Expert: Why We Need Health Reform
Senator Tom Daschle on why we need health reform—why it is good for families, for doctors, for businesses, and for governments.
August 13, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Is Good for Doctors and Patients
Senator Tom Daschle on why he believes we need health reform and how it will help all Americans, including doctors and patients, the insured and the uninsured.
August 12, 2009
Opening the “Front Door” of a Reformed Health Care System
CAP Action report from Victoria Wachino and Karen Davenport outlines six lessons from Medicaid on promoting participation in health coverage.
August 12, 2009
Ask the Expert: The Broken Individual Health Insurance Market
Peter Harbage explains how the individual market is different from employer-sponsored insurance, and how health reform would improve health care for all.
August 12, 2009
Achieving a Culture of Health Coverage
CAP Action report from Peter Harbage and Hilary Haycock details a plan for making individual health insurance more affordable and accessible.
July 31, 2009
Why We Need Health Reform
State-by-state fact sheets show the need for health reform in every state.
July 30, 2009
A Taxing Problem
Last week, five pro-life Democrats, headed by Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), sent Speaker Pelosi a letter suggesting a "common ground" solution to the abortion "roadblock" in health care reform. They proposed that insurance companies neither be required to nor prohibited from paying for abortion and that no federal subsidies be used to pay for the procedure.
July 29, 2009
Ask the Expert: Making Health Care Affordable for Small Businesses
Peter Harbage discusses why small businesses are hit so hard by rising health care costs and how health care reform can help.
July 28, 2009
Medical Debt: Is Our Health Care System Bankrupting Americans?
CAP Action's Elizabeth Edwards testifies before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
July 24, 2009
Health Care Premiums Run Amok
Unless we take serious steps now to reform our health care system, health insurance coverage will slip out of reach for even more Americans writes David Cutler.
July 23, 2009
Technology in Health Care: Panelists Debate IT Policy
A CAP event parses the definition of 'meaningful use' of health IT, and discusses the relationship between health IT and health care reform.
July 22, 2009
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