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Managed Care
February 2007 |
Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Rates Falling A new report says that that 61 percent of non-elderly Americans had employer-sponsored insurance in 2004, compared to 66 percent in 2000.   |
Salon.com
October 21, 1999
Dena Bunis |
Uninsured children A new report says there are still too many kids without health coverage. |
Managed Care
September 2002 |
Families Often Miss Out On Free Care for Children Programs that cover the costs of basic medical care are there for the asking for parents in low-income families whose children need it. Too often, however, aid is not requested. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2004 |
Medicine and Society According to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau in September 2003, 1 43.6 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2002, a figure that represents an increase of 2.4 million persons from 2001 |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Maine Gets HCFA Waiver for Drug Discount Program The Health Care Financing Administration has given Maine officials clearance to offer a discount prescription program to 200,000 people without a pharmacy benefit... |
Managed Care
September 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
The Private Sector Can, Should, and Will Help Solve the Problem of the Uninsured WellPoint Chairman Leonard Schaeffer and other health plan leaders believe they can help with the chronic societal issue of uninsured Americans. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2004
Charly Travers |
Pfizer Wants to Be Your Pfriend It seems that the pharmaceutical is limiting its profits in certain markets on its own terms in the hopes that concessions will be sufficient to keep from being handcuffed by Congress. |
Managed Care
November 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk... |
Managed Care
November 2001 |
For Now, at Least, Fewer People Lack Insurance The Census Bureau says the number of uninsured Americans dropped in 2000, for the second year in a row -- a trend many experts doubt will continue, thanks to a weakening economy... |
Managed Care
December 2001 |
Tie to Employers Stresses Fragility Of Health Coverage About two thirds of Americans receive health insurance through their employers or families, and many gain or lose coverage when they marry, divorce, or move to new jobs... |
Managed Care
April 2007 |
Comparing Congressional Health Care Proposals A review of health care reform bills proposed by Congress shows that many of them would cover more uninsured Americans than the current administration proposal. |
Managed Care
August 2000
Carey Lee Straetz |
Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge. |
Managed Care
February 2008
John Carroll |
Move to Mandatory Coverage Wouldn't Ensure Universality Compared to the existing state of affairs, there's a lot to like in mandatory coverage, but the Massachusetts experiment is a lesson to not expect miracles. |
Managed Care
July 2002 |
Despite Deficits, States Avoid Cutting Medicaid, CHIP Rolls Although states are straining to close budget deficits, they have refrained from introducing stringent eligibility requirements for the CHIP and Medicaid programs. |
Managed Care
October 2002 |
Survey: '90s Boom Didn't Increase Number of Covered Employees You would think that the roaring economy and tight labor market in the 1990s would have meant a significant increase in the number of people with employer-sponsored health insurance. But you would be wrong, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Major Health Care Reform Under President Bush Remains Elusive Three of the chief health-care challenges facing the United States are: finding a way to provide coverage for the millions of uninsured, reforming Medicare, and setting up a prescription-drug plan for the elderly. The White House is likely to make headway on only the third of these in the next two years. |
Managed Care
January 2001 |
Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system... |
Managed Care
May 2003 |
Latinos more likely to be uninsured, says study Latinos are much more likely to report being uninsured than whites or blacks, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. |
Managed Care
December 2002 |
IOM: Fix Health Care's Woes by Using States as Laboratories The Bush administration needs to "immediately" start using states as laboratories to come up with solutions to save a health system in crisis, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences. |
Managed Care
July 2004
Martin Sipkoff |
Managed Medicaid Business Might Be Worth the Difficulties Financial, regulatory, and access problems continue. Still, this remains a growth industry and some have found a way to profit. |
Managed Care
December 2003 |
Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured. |
Reason
February 2009
Ronald Bailey |
E.R. Crowding A study blames a rising population, a falling number of emergency departments, and understaffing that prevents stabilized patients from being admitted to other parts of the hospital. |
Managed Care
February 2008 |
Insurance Gap Leaves Out Kids With Asthma About 30 percent of families with asthmatic children earn more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, putting them above the threshold for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in most states. |
Salon.com
October 21, 1999
Scott Harris |
Waiting room For the great numbers of uninsured, the care may not be bad -- but the wait is. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
AT&T Wireless College and University Advantage The AT&T Wireless College and University Advantage program is offering eligible students, teachers and administrative staff bonus minutes on certain calling plans. |
Salon.com
January 21, 2000
Dena Bunis |
Making health an issue Clinton continues to push for reforms. |
Managed Care
November 2007
Cyril F. Chang |
Evolution of TennCare Yields Valuable Lessons TennCare is one of the most controversial Medicaid experiments in the recent history of state-level health care reform. Its near collapse led to a more realistic approach to providing coverage to the uninsured in Tennessee. |
Managed Care
May 2001 |
Outlook Number of uninsured unchanged; policy proposals aim to reduce ranks... |
