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A Close Look at Health Care
These issue briefs from CAP’s health experts can help you better understand some of the key concepts factoring into the health reform debate.
Progressive Prescriptions
CAP proposes a bold but practical approach to guaranteeing an American right to affordable, quality health coverage.
There’s No Excuse
See CAP’s new idea, a Wellness Trust, and reports by other experts on overhauling the American health care system.
The Health Care Delivery System
Book brings together health policy experts and practitioners to put forward recommendations that address key health delivery issues.
Other Health Care Features
September 21, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Helps Women and Families
Senator Tom Daschle discusses how health care reform will help women and families, and why incremental reform won’t work.
By Senator Tom Daschle
September 15, 2009
Family Health Spending to Rise Rapidly
Growing health care costs are becoming unsustainable for the more than 160 million Americans with employer-sponsored care, writes Sonia Sekhar.
By Sonia Sekhar
September 10, 2009
Ask the Expert: President Obama Moves the Health Debate Forward
Karen Davenport provides analysis of President Obama’s health care speech and insight into what we can expect in the weeks to come.
By Karen Davenport
September 10, 2009
Census Losses in Health Coverage Make Reform More Urgent
Comprehensive health reform is critical as employer-based coverage continues to decline, argues Karen Davenport.
By Karen Davenport
August 31, 2009
Interactive: Health Care Reform and You
Interactive calculator allows you to see how health reform will effect you and you family, including your insurance status and tax payments.
August 26, 2009
You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform
No industry has more to gain—or lose—from health reform as private, for-profit insurance companies, writes Scott Lilly.
By Scott Lilly
August 25, 2009
How the Health Insurance Exchange Really Works
The health exchange is an important, yet complex component of health reform. This video explains what it is and how it works.
August 25, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Will Help the Insured and the Sick
Tom Daschle discusses how health reform will help Americans who have insurance and how it aids those with health problems.
By Senator Tom Daschle
August 19, 2009
Atta Boy, Barney
Sam Fulwood wonders why more health reform proponents aren’t fighting back against conservative misinformation with logic, reason, and courage.
By Sam Fulwood III
August 18, 2009
Small Businesses Win With Health Reform
Health reform legislation has particular benefits for small businesses; this calculator will shows you how much your small business could benefit.
By Peter Harbage
August 18, 2009
Ask the Expert: Why We Need Health Reform
Senator Tom Daschle on why we need health reform—why it is good for families, for doctors, for businesses, and for governments.
By Senator Tom Daschle
August 13, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Is Good for Doctors and Patients
Senator Tom Daschle on why he believes we need health reform and how it will help all Americans, including doctors and patients, the insured and the uninsured.
By Senator Tom Daschle
August 12, 2009
Opening the “Front Door” of a Reformed Health Care System
CAP Action report from Victoria Wachino and Karen Davenport outlines six lessons from Medicaid on promoting participation in health coverage.
By Victoria Wachino, Karen Davenport
August 12, 2009
Ask the Expert: The Broken Individual Health Insurance Market
Peter Harbage explains how the individual market is different from employer-sponsored insurance, and how health reform would improve health care for all.
By Peter Harbage
August 12, 2009
Achieving a Culture of Health Coverage
CAP Action report from Peter Harbage and Hilary Haycock details a plan for making individual health insurance more affordable and accessible.
By Peter Harbage, Hilary Haycock
July 31, 2009
Why We Need Health Reform
State-by-state fact sheets show the need for health reform in every state.
July 30, 2009
A Taxing Problem
Last week, five pro-life Democrats, headed by Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), sent Speaker Pelosi a letter suggesting a “common ground” solution to the abortion “roadblock” in health care reform. They proposed that insurance companies neither be required to nor prohibited from paying for abortion and that no federal subsidies be used to pay for the procedure.
By Jessica Arons
July 29, 2009
Ask the Expert: Making Health Care Affordable for Small Businesses
Peter Harbage discusses why small businesses are hit so hard by rising health care costs and how health care reform can help.
By Peter Harbage
July 28, 2009
Medical Debt: Is Our Health Care System Bankrupting Americans?
CAP Action’s Elizabeth Edwards testifies before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
By Elizabeth Edwards
July 24, 2009
Health Care Premiums Run Amok
Unless we take serious steps now to reform our health care system, health insurance coverage will slip out of reach for even more Americans writes David Cutler.
By David M. Cutler
July 23, 2009
Technology in Health Care: Panelists Debate IT Policy
A CAP event parses the definition of ‘meaningful use’ of health IT, and discusses the relationship between health IT and health care reform.
July 22, 2009
Ask the Expert: Getting More Value from the Health System
Karen Davenport explains what it means to modernize the health care system and how it could save Americans $550 billion over 10 years.
By Karen Davenport
July 21, 2009
Reproductive Roulette
Presentation from Reece Rushing shows how reproductive health is declining in the United States while dangerous chemicals are on the rise, and how we can forge a new way forward.
By Reece Rushing
July 20, 2009
The State of the Individual Market
Find out from these 50 state fact sheets how health insurers across the country prevent consumers from receiving coverage for their care.
July 20, 2009
Too Sick for Health Care
Peter Harbage explains in this memo how insurers limit and deny care in the individual health insurance market.
By Peter Harbage
July 9, 2009
Costly and Dangerous Treatments Weigh Down Health Care
Inefficient and harmful care accounts for $700 billion in spending each year; comprehensive health reform will help, write Ellen-Marie Whelan and Sonia Sekhar.
By Ellen-Marie Whelan, Sonia Sekhar
July 2, 2009
CAP Comments on HHS Definition of “Meaningful Use” of Health IT
The Center for American Progress comments on the government’s proposed definition of “meaningful use” in health information technology.
June 29, 2009
Financing Health Care Reform
David M. Cutler and Judy Feder propose a plan to insure that the cost of health reform is budget-neutral.
By David M. Cutler, Judy Feder
June 26, 2009
Weekly Round Up: June 22 – 26, 2009
This week CAP pushed for health care reform and global warming legislation and argued for ending “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
June 24, 2009
Payment Reform to Improve Health Care
Ellen-Marie Whelan and Judy Feder examine the most prominent payment reform proposals and innovative models to offer ways forward on health payment reform.
By Ellen-Marie Whelan, Judy Feder
June 24, 2009
The Two Trillion Dollar Solution
We can save money by modernizing the health care system; Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin and David Cutler explain how.
By Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, David M. Cutler
June 23, 2009
Removing Obstacles to Generic Drug Competition
Report from David Balto examines anticompetitive conduct that may delay the emergence of generic drugs and offers solutions.
By David Balto
June 16, 2009
Interactive Map: Health Care Competition
An interactive map shows that in many states health insurance markets are dominated by a handful of carriers.
By Ben Furnas, Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
June 15, 2009
Public Opinion Snapshot: Move on Health Care Reform Now (and Don’t Forget the Public Plan!)
The public wants action on health care reform now, writes Ruy Teixeira, and they want it to include a public plan.
By Ruy Teixeira
June 11, 2009
Use Medicare to Hold Industry to Cost and Quality Promises
Judy Feder and Marilyn Moon in Kaiser Health News discuss how to use Medicare to hold the health care industry to cost and quality promises.
By Judy Feder, Marilyn Moon
June 8, 2009
Helping Breadwinners When It Can’t Wait
Heather Boushey lays out a progressive program that would guarantee Americans access to paid family and medical leave, giving a boost to workers, employers, and the economy.
By Heather Boushey
June 3, 2009
Animation: Why Americans Need Health Reform
Animation shows that without health reform, businesses’ and families’ costs will continue to rise, and American workers will not receive the care they need to be healthy.
June 3, 2009
Efficiency and Quality
Report from Paul B. Ginsburg details how health care payment reform can help control rising health care costs.
By Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D.
May 29, 2009
The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care
Interactive map from Peter Harbage and Ben Furnas shows that lack of health insurance brings steep economic costs to states in the form of lost productivity.
By Peter Harbage, Ben Furnas
May 28, 2009
Ask the Expert: Can We Afford Not to Modernize the Health System?
Karen Davenport explains why health reform is crucial to balancing the budget and how quickly we could begin to see savings.
By Karen Davenport
May 28, 2009
Health Reform that Works for Kids
As policymakers consider options for health reform, they must remember to watch out for the needs of children, too, writes Karen Davenport in a CAP Action report.
By Karen Davenport
May 26, 2009
What Is Comparative Effectiveness Research?
Ellen-Marie Whelan discusses why we need evidence-based health care, how it will improve health, and how we can promote it.
By Ellen-Marie Whelan
May 22, 2009
CAP Comments on HHS Health Data Breach Guidelines
Strong technical standards should be built into proposed data breach guidelines for health care records as new health information technology is implemented.
By Peter Swire
May 22, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 18 – 22, 2009
We supported clean-energy legislation, hosted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and imagined what America would look like without health reform.
May 21, 2009
America Without Health Care Reform
Without reform, our broken health care system will continue to squeeze families, businesses, doctors, the federal budget, and the economy, writes Ben Furnas.
By Ben Furnas
May 18, 2009
A Historic Opportunity
Report from Todd Park and Peter Basch on wedding health information technology to care delivery innovation and provider payment reform.
By Todd Park, Peter Basch
May 11, 2009
Ask the Expert: Fixing Our Broken Health Care System
Everyone will benefit from an improved health care system. Judy Feder explains how and why.
By Judy Feder
May 11, 2009
Health System Modernization Will Reduce the Deficit
Modernizing the health system could help the government save nearly $600 billion in health spending over the next decade, writes David Cutler in a CAP Action report.
By David M. Cutler
May 8, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 4 – May 8, 2009
This week the center documented the loss of insurance coverage and jobs, looked at education entrepreneurs, and reported on the growing problem of wildfires in the West.
May 8, 2009
Coverage When It Counts
CAP Action report by Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Jennifer Libster, Stephanie Lewis, and Nicole Johnston proposes truthful labeling for health insurance policies to improve transparency and information for consumers.
By Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Jennifer Libster, Stephanie Lewis, Nicole Johnston
You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform | August 26, 2009
How the Health Insurance Exchange Really Works | August 25, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Will Help the Insured and the Sick | August 25, 2009
Atta Boy, Barney | August 19, 2009
Small Businesses Win With Health Reform | August 18, 2009
Ask the Expert: Why We Need Health Reform | August 18, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Is Good for Doctors and Patients | August 13, 2009
Opening the “Front Door” of a Reformed Health Care System | August 12, 2009
Ask the Expert: The Broken Individual Health Insurance Market | August 12, 2009
Achieving a Culture of Health Coverage | August 12, 2009
Why We Need Health Reform | July 31, 2009
A Taxing Problem | July 30, 2009
Ask the Expert: Making Health Care Affordable for Small Businesses | July 29, 2009
Medical Debt: Is Our Health Care System Bankrupting Americans? | July 28, 2009
Health Care Premiums Run Amok | July 24, 2009
Technology in Health Care: Panelists Debate IT Policy | July 23, 2009
Ask the Expert: Getting More Value from the Health System | July 22, 2009
Reproductive Roulette | July 21, 2009
The State of the Individual Market | July 20, 2009
Too Sick for Health Care | July 20, 2009
Costly and Dangerous Treatments Weigh Down Health Care | July 9, 2009
CAP Comments on HHS Definition of “Meaningful Use” of Health IT | July 2, 2009
Financing Health Care Reform | June 29, 2009
Weekly Round Up: June 22 – 26, 2009 | June 26, 2009
Payment Reform to Improve Health Care | June 24, 2009
The Two Trillion Dollar Solution | June 24, 2009
Removing Obstacles to Generic Drug Competition | June 23, 2009
Interactive Map: Health Care Competition | June 16, 2009
Public Opinion Snapshot: Move on Health Care Reform Now (and Don’t Forget the Public Plan!) | June 15, 2009
Use Medicare to Hold Industry to Cost and Quality Promises | June 11, 2009
Helping Breadwinners When It Can’t Wait | June 8, 2009
Animation: Why Americans Need Health Reform | June 3, 2009
Efficiency and Quality | June 3, 2009
The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care | May 29, 2009
Ask the Expert: Can We Afford Not to Modernize the Health System? | May 28, 2009
Health Reform that Works for Kids | May 28, 2009
What Is Comparative Effectiveness Research? | May 26, 2009
CAP Comments on HHS Health Data Breach Guidelines | May 22, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 18 – 22, 2009 | May 22, 2009
America Without Health Care Reform | May 21, 2009
A Historic Opportunity | May 18, 2009
Ask the Expert: Fixing Our Broken Health Care System | May 11, 2009
Health System Modernization Will Reduce the Deficit | May 11, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 4 – May 8, 2009 | May 8, 2009
Coverage When It Counts | May 8, 2009
Interactive Map: Dramatic Increase in the Uninsured Rate in Every State | May 4, 2009
More Americans Losing Health Insurance Every Day | May 4, 2009
Interactive Map: Health Care in Crisis | May 4, 2009
Comparative Effectiveness Research Will Help People Make Better Health Choices | May 1, 2009
Better Information, Better Decisions | April 28, 2009
Swine Flu Tests Public Health System | April 27, 2009
Weekly Round Up: April 27 – May 1, 2009 | April 27, 2009
Assuring Access to Employer-Provided Health Coverage | April 23, 2009
Ask the Expert: How to Build an Effective Public Health Insurance Plan | April 14, 2009
Health Reform: Delivering for Those Who Deliver Health Care | April 14, 2009
Weekly Round Up: April 6 – 10, 2009 | April 10, 2009
Interactive Map: Individuals with Pre-Existing Conditions | April 8, 2009
Lessons from Medicare for Health Care Reform | April 2, 2009
Ask the Expert: The Case for Health Reform | April 2, 2009
Health Care’s Efficiency Dividend | March 26, 2009
Competitive Health Care | March 25, 2009
The Role of Long-Term Care in Health Reform | March 25, 2009
The Cost Shift from the Uninsured | March 23, 2009
The Inefficient Individual Health Insurance Market | March 23, 2009
The Importance of Assuring Affordable Health Care for All | March 17, 2009
Health Reform in an Aging America | March 4, 2009
One Step Closer to Better Health Care | February 27, 2009
Entitlement Reform Means Fixing the Broader Health System | February 20, 2009
Weekly Round Up | February 20, 2009
Medicare Matters | February 19, 2009
Setting the Health System Up to Fail | February 12, 2009
Health Information Technology Belongs in the Recovery Package | February 11, 2009
Senate Recovery and Reinvestment Act Sells Health Care Short | February 10, 2009
President Obama Signs Expansion of Children’s Health Insurance Program | February 4, 2009
Building on Success: The Role of Public Coverage Programs in Health Reform | February 2, 2009
Interactive Map: The Recovery, for Children | February 2, 2009
SCHIP Passes Senate | January 29, 2009
A Perfect Storm | January 16, 2009
Long Overdue for Children’s Health Insurance | January 14, 2009
Putting Children’s Health Before Ideology | January 14, 2009
American Health Care Since 1994: The Unacceptable Status Quo | January 8, 2009
Think Again: Mainstream Media Malpractice | January 8, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Is the Most Fiscally Responsible Course of Action | January 7, 2009
Expanding the Meaning of Rights | December 23, 2008
An Unhealthy Individual Health Insurance Market | December 23, 2008
Changing the Course of Mental Health | December 18, 2008
Improving Health Care Through Faith Partnerships | December 16, 2008
Data-Driven Drug Coverage | December 15, 2008
Historic Moment for Health Reform | December 12, 2008
CAP Distinguished Fellow Sen. Tom Daschle and Senior Fellow Jeanne Lambrew Named to Top Posts | December 11, 2008
The Economic Imperative for Health Reform | December 9, 2008
Public Opinion Snapshot: Ready for Change on Jobs and Health Care | December 5, 2008
World AIDS Day 2008 | December 1, 2008
Address Health Care in a Second Stimulus | November 13, 2008
The Health Care Delivery System: A Blueprint for Reform | October 31, 2008
Small Businesses, Large Problems | October 30, 2008
Health Policy and the Economic Crisis | October 29, 2008
A Close Look at the Issues | October 22, 2008
High-Risk Insurance Pools: A Flawed Model for Reform | September 29, 2008
Reject the Highmark/Blue Cross Merger | September 23, 2008
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