Learn More About Health Reform
This can help you prioritize what you want in a future U.S. health care system.
Topics:
Coverage and Access
Prevention
Financing
Transparency
Patient-Centered
Quality
Our Current System
Health Care for Everyone — An International Compassion
Press/Media
Information Technology
Coverage and Access
"The Moral Case for Insuring the Uninsured", Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs (.pdf)
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
(U.S. Census Bureau) The nation's main source of data about coverage trends.
Too Great a Burden: America's Families at Risk (Families USA Foundation)
Shifting Ground: Changes in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) (.pdf)
Consumer Guides for Getting and Keeping Health Insurance in Every State and the District of Columbia (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)
Cultural Competence and Health Care Disparities: Key Perspectives and Trends (The Commonwealth Fund)
Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies)
A Roadmap to Health Insurance for All: Principles for Reform (The Heritage Foundation)
Prevention
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies)
The Guide to Community Preventive Services: Managed Care/Clinical Practice Commentary (The American Journal of Preventative Medicine) (.pdf)
The Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2007 (The American Diabetes Association) (.pdf)
Financing
How Non-Group Health Coverage Varies With Income (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
How Private Insurance Works: A Primer (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation) (.pdf)
The Cost of Care for the Uninsured: What Do We Spend, Who Pays, and What Would Full Coverage Add to Medical Spending? (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation) (.pdf)
How Employers Can Help Create a High Performance Health System (The Commonwealth Fund)
Reform Is No 'Either-Or': We Must Fix the Payment System Along with Access (The Commonwealth Fund)
Transparency
Cost-effectiveness as a criterion for Medical and Coverage decisions: Understanding and responding to community perspectives (Sacramento Health Decisions) (.pdf)
"How Changes in Medical Technology Affect Health Care Costs" (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
"Applying Economic Principles to Health Care" (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) (.pdf)
"Health Care Costs: A Primer" (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
Slowing the Growth of U.S. Health Care Expenditures: What Are the Options? (The Commonwealth Fund)
Pressure from Rising Health-Care Costs: How Can Consumers Get Relief? (RAND Corporation)
Patient-Centered
Quality Matters: Patient-Centered Medical Homes (The Commonwealth Fund)
A High-Performing System for Well-Child Care: A Vision for the Future (The Commonwealth Fund)
Quality
Can We Contain Health Care Costs Without Compromising Quality? (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
Bending the Curve: Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in U.S. Health Spending (The Commonwealth Fund)
Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies)
Case for Evidence-Based Medicine (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies)
Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Quality and Safety of Health Care in the United States (The Commonwealth Fund)
For additional information on health care change, visit the links below:
Our Current System
Ask the Experts
KaiserNetwork.org's HeathCast feature offers this series of live, interactive webcasts on a range of health policy issues by panels of leading experts. Content includes analysis of a variety of reform proposals. (Kaiser Family Foundation,)
Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance (The Commonwealth Fund)
A High Performance Health System for the United States: An Ambitious Agenda for the Next President (The Commonwealth Fund)
Commission on a High Performance Health System, Framework for a High Performance Health System for the United States, (The Commonwealth Fund)
U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard (Journal of Health Affairs) (.pdf)
Measuring up: A Comprehensive Scorecard for America's Health System (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
Health Care and the Budget: Issues and Challenges for Reform, Invited Testimony of Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office (Committee on the Budget: US Senate)
Documents
Webcast
Health Care for Everyone — An International Compassion
Sick Around the World: Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? (Frontline, PBS, April 15, 2008)
Health Care Systems — The Four Basic Models
An excerpt from T.R. Reid's upcoming book "We're Number 37!"
Health Care For All: In Western Europe, It's a Reality
A series of stories examining the pros and cons of health care Germany, France, Netherlands, U.K. and Switzerland from National Public Radio.
Japanese Pay Less for More Health Care
T.R. Reid, All Things Considered, National Public Radio (April 14, 2008)
Taiwan Takes Fast Track to Universal Health Care
T.R. Reid, All Things Considered, National Public Radio (April 15, 2008)
Henry Kaiser Family Foundation, Map showing Total Expenditure on Health from World Health Organization (World Health Statistics 2007)
Learning From High Performance Health Systems around the Globe, (The Commonwealth Fund)
Learning from the Health Care Systems of Other Countries (Annals of Internal Medicine 148, 78-79)
Achieving a High-Performance Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries (Annals of Internal Medicine 148, 55-75)
Press/Media
A reporter's toolkit: The Uninsured (Alliance for Health Reform)
Information Technology
Study: Health Information Online Needs Work, Health Care News and Information (Healthcare Leadership Council) (.pdf)
Health Information Technology: Here, Now and Tomorrow (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)