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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...
Salon.com January 21, 2000 Dena Bunis	Making health an issue Clinton continues to push for reforms.
Managed Care March 2007	1 in 5 Non-Elderly Women Are Uninsured More than 17 million American women are uninsured. These women are more likely to postpone care and to forego filling needed prescriptions than insured women, and they often delay or go without important preventive care services.
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 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.
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 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 February 2001	Rate of uninsured falls, but underlying factors remain shaky The percentage of uninsured Americans fell from 1998 to 1999, for the first time in a decade. But, according to a study prepared by the Health Insurance Association of America, the underlying factors affecting coverage have not changed -- and that could mean the decline is just an illusion...
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
Managed Care November 2000	Rise in employer-based coverage spurs drop in ranks of uninsured The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from 44 million in 1998 to 42 million in 1999, thanks in large part to a boost in the share of employers offering job-based coverage...
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 October 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	How We Got It Anyway: The Clinton Health Plan Never Died As a whole, the plan unceremoniously crashed and burned. But it still frames state and national debate about health policy, thus affecting the evolution of managed care...
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
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.
Inc. October 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	Candidates' Take on Premiums A guide to the Democratic presidential candidates' proposals for making health insurance more affordable.
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall	Such a kidder! George W. "We'll love the babies" Bush says he's a champion of children in Texas. Roughly 200,000 of them might disagree.
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.
American Family Physician August 1, 2000	Policy Center One-Pager The Importance of Having a Usual Source of Health Care
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Laura D'Andrea Tyson	Kerry's Health Plan: Coverage For (Almost) All As insurance premiums soar, and worries over joblessness take hold of many Americans, health insurance has emerged as a potent issue that could tip the balance in this year's Presidential election.
Managed Care September 2007	Young and Uninsured -- a Looming Problem Adults between 19 and 29 are one of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population that lack health insurance, according to a new report.
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.
Salon.com September 8, 2000 Alan Berlow	Prescription politics What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans?
Job Journal July 24, 2005 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Ailing Healthcare Coverage As healthcare costs increase, a survey by Yankelovich finds more workers rate healthcare coverage as their preferred employee benefit.
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.
HBS Working Knowledge March 2, 2007 Jim Heskett	What Is the Government's Role in U.S. Healthcare? Are we addressing healthcare cost issues with the creativity they deserve?
Salon.com October 21, 1999 Dena Bunis	Uninsured children A new report says there are still too many kids without health coverage.
Managed Care April 2000 Michael S. Victoroff, M.D.	Helping Marginally Covered May Take Public-Private Effort Opening medicine's doors to a broader population has invoked the law of unintended consequences. Primary care physicians feel an increased demand for visits, referrals, and advice. ...
Managed Care November 2003	Calif. Businesses Vow To Fight Coverage Law A new law that makes employers extend health benefits to about a million uninsured Californians will be watched carefully. Opponents of the law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis two days before the recall vote that ousted him, vow to challenge it in the courts.
Managed Care May 2001 Cyril F. Chang	Covering Risk But Not Risky Behaviors A critical review of the arguments for insurance coverage for smoking-cessation therapies...
Managed Care August 2006	So Far, Experts Like What They See in Part D Health care opinion leaders so far think Medicare Part D is a success, though changes are needed to the program, according to a survey by the Commonwealth Fund.
Managed Care February 2008	Employer-Backed Insurance Gets Nonpartisan Nod The majority of Americans believe that universal coverage costs should be shared by individuals, employers, and the government.
AskMen.com May 14, 2001 Luis Rodrigues	Do You Need Life Insurance? Some people believe that having life insurance -- planning for their death -- will bring misfortune to their lives, and would rather not have any at all. Unfortunately, too many people don't realize the importance of life insurance until it's too late...
Managed Care March 2001	Privacy Up, Liability Down In State Houses This Year Privacy proposals will be one of the most prevalent -- though not the most hotly debated -- issues related to health coverage in state houses this year, according to a survey by the Health Insurance Association of America...
American Family Physician October 1, 2000 Rosemarie Sweeney & Toni Lapp	Newsletter Report Highlights What Older Americans Think About Medicare... $35,000 Grant Paves Way for Tool to Prevent Prescription Errors... FDA Launches Oncology Tools Web Site... Federal Funds Support Research in Women's Health... Surgeon General's Report on Tobacco Use Draws AMA Approval...
U.S. Banker August 2001 Diana Tejerina	From Rocking Chair to Grave A new insurance product that combines life insurance with long-term healthcare coverage could spur sales at banks and strengthen ties with old and wealthy clients.
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
IndustryWeek March 17, 2010	First Up - The Audacity of Hopelessness Do our political leaders have the resolve to steer us from an unsustainable path?
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
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 Matthew Johnson	The Bond Buyer: Massachusetts Milestone A law making Massachusetts the first state to guarantee nearly all residents healthcare insurance could boost the fiscal health of some healthcare facilities -- but analysts say it's too early to know the impact on public healthcare bond credit ratings.
Managed Care February 2007 John Carroll	Push To Reform System Makes Strange Bedfellows Nearly everybody's calling on the government to make health care coverage affordable and universal.
Managed Care October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
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.
American Family Physician November 1, 2000	Policy Center One-Pager The Importance of Primary Care Physicians as the Usual Source of Healthcare in the Achievement of Prevention Goals...
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform: You Can't Have It Both Ways Requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions needs to go hand-in-hand with requiring healthy people to purchase insurance.
Managed Care May 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Far from final words on obesity were splashed across headlines last month... Most uninsured people do not pay taxes, because they have low incomes... General Motors blamed its largest quarterly loss in more than a decade on the increased costs of providing health care coverage... etc.
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Jeanne Lee	The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused.
Salon.com January 20, 2000 Dena Bunis	The Harry and Louise show The fictional couple who appeared in anti-Clinton ads are now in a new campaign.
Managed Care November 1999 Peter Lee, J.D.	Consumer Power Will Put HMOs, Physicians on Spot ...Four themes will continue to grow in importance as the shift to consumer and patient empowerment continues into the 21st century...
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Play It Safe With Your Health Census Bureau figures indicate 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. High deductible insurance is one solution that may help these individuals to avoid a potential financial disaster.