November 1, 2002 - In this 2002 book, Don Berwick, M.D., the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, outlines the problems with the health care system--medical errors, confusing and inconsistent information, and a lack of personal attention and continuity in care--and then sketches an ambitious program for reform.
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April 4, 2002 - In this essay from the Fund's 2001 Annual Report, Fund president Karen Davis examines trends in the U.S. labor force over the past quarter century and how they affect health, health care, and health insurance coverage.
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March 1, 2002 - This fact sheet, based on the Fund's 2001 Health Care Quality Survey, focuses on the survey findings related to the health, health care, and health insurance coverage of Asian Americans.
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March 1, 2002 - This fact sheet, based on the Fund's 2001 Health Care Quality Survey, focuses on the survey findings related to the health, health care, and health insurance coverage of African Americans.
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March 1, 2002 - This fact sheet, based on the Fund's 2001 Health Care Quality Survey, focuses on the survey findings related to the health, health care, and health insurance coverage of Hispanics.
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February 1, 2002 - By enabling foundations to move quickly and flexibly to underwrite very targeted work, small gants can help to inform major program areas, finance key policy research, communicate program findings, promote discourse on health policy issues, and revisit issues addressed by earlier undertakings.
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February 1, 2001 - Since 1992, through a selective and labor intensive process, the Fund has commissioned independent reviews of 56 projects and 14 larger programs, or approximately one-fourth of the large projects it funds annually.
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January 1, 2001 - In this essay, the president's message from the Fund's 2000 Annual Report, Karen Davis looks at health care quality: how to define it, how to measure it, and how to improve it.
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December 25, 2000 - The problem of nearly 43 million Americans without health insurance could be virtually eliminated in a single generation through a health plan based on universal, automatic coverage that allows choice of plan and provider. The proposal could be paid for, according to Fund President Davis and coauthors, by using the quarter of the federal budget surplus which results from savings in Medicare and Medicaid.
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March 1, 2000 - This analysis finds striking differences among countries in the relative equity of health care experiences.
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March 1, 2000 - President's Message from 1999 Annual Report
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February 2, 2000 - Executive Vice President's Report from the 1999 Annual Report
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February 2, 1999 - Nonprofit organizations play a major social, cultural, and economic role in American life, and in recent years have assumed increasing responsibility for maintaining society's safety net in an era of constrained government budgets. At the same time, periodic failures—even scandals—involving nonprofit management have drawn attention to the need for stronger internal mechanisms to assure the accountability and performance of these organizations.
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February 1, 1999 - President's Message from 1998 Annual Report
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June 15, 1998 - The home health benefit has been one of the fastest-growing components of the Medicare program over the past decade.
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