NEJM Perspective Discusses Lessons Of Health Care Reform Failure; Statehealthfacts.org Provides New, Updated Data On Uninsured, Medicaid

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Also Included In: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP
Article Date: 26 Oct 2007 - 7:00 PDT

email to a friend   printer friendly   opinions  

"Learning From Failure in Health Care Reform," New England Journal of Medicine: In the NEJM perspective, Jonathan Oberlander, an associate professor of social medicine and health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, discusses reasons for the collapse of the Clinton Health Security Act proposed in 1993. Oberlander also discusses "several broader lessons about the politics of health reform" amid a new push by states, businesses, labor and advocacy groups to change the U.S. health care system (Oberlander, NEJM, 10/25).

New data, Statehealthfacts.org: Statehealthfacts.org recently added to its Web site new and updated information on demographics and the economy, health coverage and the uninsured, and Medicaid and SCHIP. Data on people living in poverty and minority populations, as well as health coverage data for key populations have been updated for all states using Census Bureau's 2007 Current Population Survey. In addition, the site includes updated data the latest 50-state Medicaid budget survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured on state efforts to control costs in Medicaid or expand the program. Also available is updated information about the fiscal year 2008 Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (Kaiser Family Foundation release, 10/24).

Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation© 2005 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.

• Additional
• References
• Citations