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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.
There's No Excuse
See CAP's new idea, a Wellness Trust, and reports by other experts on overhauling the American health care system.
The Health Care Delivery System
Book brings together health policy experts and practitioners to put forward recommendations that address key health delivery issues.Other Health Care Features
July 2, 2009
CAP Comments on HHS Definition of "Meaningful Use" of Health IT
The Center for American Progress comments on the government’s proposed definition of “meaningful use” in health information technology.
June 29, 2009
Financing Health Care Reform
David M. Cutler and Judy Feder propose a plan to insure that the cost of health reform is budget-neutral.
June 26, 2009
Weekly Round Up: June 22 - 26, 2009
This week CAP pushed for health care reform and global warming legislation and argued for ending "Don't Ask Don't Tell."
June 24, 2009
Payment Reform to Improve Health Care
Ellen-Marie Whelan and Judy Feder examine the most prominent payment reform proposals and innovative models to offer ways forward on health payment reform.
June 24, 2009
The Two Trillion Dollar Solution
We can save money by modernizing the health care system; Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin and David Cutler explain how.
June 23, 2009
Removing Obstacles to Generic Drug Competition
Report from David Balto examines anticompetitive conduct that may delay the emergence of generic drugs and offers solutions.
June 16, 2009
Interactive Map: Health Care Competition
An interactive map shows that in many states health insurance markets are dominated by a handful of carriers.
June 15, 2009
Public Opinion Snapshot: Move on Health Care Reform Now (and Don’t Forget the Public Plan!)
The public wants action on health care reform now, writes Ruy Teixeira, and they want it to include a public plan.
June 11, 2009
Use Medicare to Hold Industry to Cost and Quality Promises
Judy Feder and Marilyn Moon in Kaiser Health News discuss how to use Medicare to hold the health care industry to cost and quality promises.
June 8, 2009
Helping Breadwinners When It Can’t Wait
Heather Boushey lays out a progressive program that would guarantee Americans access to paid family and medical leave, giving a boost to workers, employers, and the economy.
June 3, 2009
Animation: Why Americans Need Health Reform
Animation shows that without health reform, businesses’ and families' costs will continue to rise, and American workers will not receive the care they need to be healthy.
June 3, 2009
Efficiency and Quality
Report from Paul B. Ginsburg details how health care payment reform can help control rising health care costs.
May 29, 2009
The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care
Interactive map from Peter Harbage and Ben Furnas shows that lack of health insurance brings steep economic costs to states in the form of lost productivity.
May 28, 2009
Ask the Expert: Can We Afford Not to Modernize the Health System?
Karen Davenport explains why health reform is crucial to balancing the budget and how quickly we could begin to see savings.
May 28, 2009
Health Reform that Works for Kids
As policymakers consider options for health reform, they must remember to watch out for the needs of children, too, writes Karen Davenport in a CAP Action report.
May 26, 2009
What Is Comparative Effectiveness Research?
Ellen-Marie Whelan discusses why we need evidence-based health care, how it will improve health, and how we can promote it.
May 22, 2009
CAP Comments on HHS Health Data Breach Guidelines
Strong technical standards should be built into proposed data breach guidelines for health care records as new health information technology is implemented.
May 22, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 18 - 22, 2009
We supported clean-energy legislation, hosted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and imagined what America would look like without health reform.
May 21, 2009
America Without Health Care Reform
Without reform, our broken health care system will continue to squeeze families, businesses, doctors, the federal budget, and the economy, writes Ben Furnas.
May 18, 2009
A Historic Opportunity
Report from Todd Park and Peter Basch on wedding health information technology to care delivery innovation and provider payment reform.
May 11, 2009
Ask the Expert: Fixing Our Broken Health Care System
Everyone will benefit from an improved health care system. Judy Feder explains how and why.
May 11, 2009
Health System Modernization Will Reduce the Deficit
Modernizing the health system could help the government save nearly $600 billion in health spending over the next decade, writes David Cutler in a CAP Action report.
May 8, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 4 - May 8, 2009
This week the center documented the loss of insurance coverage and jobs, looked at education entrepreneurs, and reported on the growing problem of wildfires in the West.
May 8, 2009
Coverage When It Counts
CAP Action report by Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Jennifer Libster, Stephanie Lewis, and Nicole Johnston proposes truthful labeling for health insurance policies to improve transparency and information for consumers.
May 4, 2009
Interactive Map: Dramatic Increase in the Uninsured Rate in Every State
An interactive map shows a 13-percent increase since 2007 in the number of Americans without health insurance.
May 4, 2009
More Americans Losing Health Insurance Every Day
An analysis by Nayla Kazzi of health coverage losses during the current recession underscores the urgent need for health reform.
May 4, 2009
Interactive Map: Health Care in Crisis
Almost two-thirds of uninsured adults work, and that number is expected to grow in the coming years, show Peter Harbage and Ben Furnas in an interactive map.
May 1, 2009
Comparative Effectiveness Research Will Help People Make Better Health Choices
Comparative effectiveness research will help people make better health choices, write Ruth Faden and Jonathan D. Moreno in the Baltimore Sun.
April 28, 2009
Better Information, Better Decisions
Comparative effectiveness research will help everyone make better health decisions, and it will bring down costs and improve care, writes Ellen-Marie Whelan.
April 27, 2009
Swine Flu Tests Public Health System
The outbreak is a test for the government’s capacity to respond to public health threats, and so far, the response has been good, write P.J. Crowley and Andy Grotto.
April 27, 2009
Weekly Round Up: April 27 - May 1, 2009
This week CAP looked at swine flu, rescinding the Bush conscience rule, and the growing importance of women as breadwinners.
April 23, 2009
Assuring Access to Employer-Provided Health Coverage
CAP Action Director of Health Policy Karen Davenport testifies before the House Committee on Education and Labor on making employer-provided coverage accessible and affordable.
April 14, 2009
Ask the Expert: How to Build an Effective Public Health Insurance Plan
Peter Harbage discusses why we need a public health insurance plan, what would make it effective, and how it would make health care more affordable for all.
April 14, 2009
Health Reform: Delivering for Those Who Deliver Health Care
CAP Action report from Robert A. Berenson and Ellen-Marie Whelan details how health reform will benefit health care professionals.
April 10, 2009
Weekly Round Up: April 6 - 10, 2009
This week, CAP proposed smart ways to spend stimulus money, reform health care and the defense budget, and make the Treasury's toxic asset program work.
April 8, 2009
Interactive Map: Individuals with Pre-Existing Conditions
A map by Ben Furnas shows the numbers and percentages of adults aged 18-64 in each state who have conditions that insurers use as a pretext to raise rates, restrict coverage, or deny insurance altogether.
April 2, 2009
Lessons from Medicare for Health Care Reform
Report from Marilyn Moon shows that Medicare’s experience offers a number of key lessons that can help in the development of affordable health coverage for all Americans.
April 2, 2009
Ask the Expert: The Case for Health Reform
Peter Harbage explains why we need health reform, who will benefit from it, and what's at stake if Congress is unable to enact reform.
March 26, 2009
Health Care's Efficiency Dividend
Eliminating inefficiency in the health care system could reduce costs, writes CAP Action's Peter Harbage.
March 25, 2009
Competitive Health Care
CAP Action's Peter Harbage and Karen Davenport outline Public Plan Choice, a public health insurance plan that would deliver market discipline.
March 25, 2009
The Role of Long-Term Care in Health Reform
CAP Action's Judy Feder and Professor Harriet L. Komisar testify on the need for public action to improve long-term care services and supports.
March 23, 2009
The Cost Shift from the Uninsured
CAP Action report finds that American family health care premiums cost $1,100 more because our system doesn’t provide continuous coverage for all.
March 23, 2009
The Inefficient Individual Health Insurance Market
CAP Action's Peter Harbage finds that higher administrative costs on the individual market will mean $3.0 billion in extra expenses for American families in 2009.
March 17, 2009
The Importance of Assuring Affordable Health Care for All
CAP Action Senior Fellow Judy Feder testifies on the importance of assuring affordable health care for all Americans.
March 4, 2009
Health Reform in an Aging America
CAPAF Senior Fellow Judy Feder testifies before the Senate Special Committee on Aging on the need to improve long-care services and supports.
February 27, 2009
One Step Closer to Better Health Care
The Obama administration’s budget contains promising evidence that health care reform is a top priority, writes Karen Davenport.
February 20, 2009
Entitlement Reform Means Fixing the Broader Health System
Lester Feder and Ellen-Marie Whelan discuss how to solve Medicare and Medicaid’s budget challenges in this health policy brief.
February 20, 2009
Weekly Round Up
Find out what happened this week at CAP: readying for health reform, help for homeowners, and gearing up for the Oscars.
February 19, 2009
Medicare Matters
The right way to control Medicare costs is to have Medicare lead the way in system-wide health reform, write Judy Feder and Marilyn Moon.
February 12, 2009
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