October 06, 2011 - Commonwealth Fund staff Caryn Marks, Megan Keenan, and Mary Jane Koren report on the Alliance for Health Reform/Fund briefing onthe opportunities and challenges in the U.S. long-term services and supports system.
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September 30, 2011 - An analysis conducted by Jon Gabel and colleagues attributes only 1.8 percentage points of the recently reported 8 percent to 9 percent rise in premiums to the Affordable Care Act's insurance reforms.
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September 13, 2011 - New U.S. Census data show that the number of people without health insurance climbed to 49.9 million in 2010, but a decrease in the number of uninsured young adults.
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September 13, 2011 - Scotland is the first country in the world to mandate a structured safety improvement program for its whole health care system. The Scottish Patient Safety Program, in which all acute care hospitals take part, aims to reduce mortality by 15 percent and patient harm by 30 percent by the end of 2012.
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August 31, 2011 - In this post, Sara Collins discusses how the new premium tax credits created by the health reform law will improve the affordability and accessibility of insurance.
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August 24, 2011 - In this post, The Commonwealth Fund's Michelle Doty and Sara Collins call for reestablishing COBRA premium subsidies that previously helped millions of people who lost their jobs maintain their health insurance coverage.
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August 15, 2011 - People have too many expectations for the state insurance exchanges, says Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher Koller. In a new post, he calls on the designers of the exchanges to clarify and prioritize these goals.
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August 15, 2011 - National policymakers have a vested interest in supporting and promoting effective care coordination interventions for patients with the highest health needs, say The Commonwealth Fund's Rachel Nuzum, Caryn Marks, and Megan Keenan.
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August 08, 2011 - The Fund's Ruth Robertson says the HHS guidelines on women's preventive services go a long way toward ensuring more women receive needed preventive care.
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August 08, 2011 - Serious, though disparate, efforts are already under way to "reform" Medicaid, says David N. Sundwall in the blog post on serving vulnerable populations at a time when the roles of state and federal government are being redefined.
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August 08, 2011 - Patricia Gabow looks at why the safety net will still be critically important in 2014.
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July 29, 2011 - A recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows that national health spending grew at a historically low rate of 3.9 percent in 2010. Karen Davis says this is somewhat reassuring news for the millions of American families and businesses. It’s also good news for the federal government as the slowdown indicates that the cost of health reform has been overestimated.
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July 26, 2011 - In a new blog post, Mark Hall of Wake Forest University looks at risk adjustment, a necessity for ensuring a level playing field in individual and small-group markets both within and outside the exchanges.
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July 21, 2011 - Last week HHS issued its proposed regulation for the new health insurance exchanges that states are to establish under the Affordable Care Act. In this blog post, the Fund's Sara Collins looks at what the rule says about governance, plan standards, and networks.
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July 19, 2011 - The Fund's Rachel Nuzum and Stuart Guterman discuss a recent policy briefing on the key issues facing the the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
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