Health Reform Resources
This Commonwealth Fund outlines the payment and delivery system reform provisions in the bills, as well as their potential impact on health expenditures.
1/20/2010 1:18:00 PM -
This study examines Congressional Budget Office scoring of three pieces of major health reform legislation enacted during each of the past three decades, and finds that, CBO, in all three cases, substantially underestimated savings from these reform measures.
11/13/2009 2:11:00 PM -
In this Commonwealth Fund issue brief, experts argue that the health care system as a whole would do well to emulate top-performing providers that embrace accountability for health care quality, outcomes, and cost. And they say the Medicare program—the nation's largest payer for health care—is the logical place to start.
10/8/2009 12:00:00 AM -
The cost and quality of health care, as well as access to care and health outcomes, continue to vary widely among states, according to the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System's second state scorecard report. The states that led in the first state scorecard, released in 2007, generally continued to lead, often setting new benchmarks and widening the gap between leading and lagging states.