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July 13, 2012 | Presentation Material
In this group session, Ellen Zane, chief executive officer emeritus of Tufts Medical Center, shares insights into the dynamics of health care markets and how those dynamics might affect the implementation of health reform and efforts to reduce cost ...
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
During 1994 and 1995, investigators at Harvard University School of Public Health analyzed the high-risk auto insurance market, secondary mortgage markets, and the futures and options markets to determine whether these sectors of the insurance market offer lessons for the health sector. The project looked specifically at how these markets spread risk.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1999, researchers from Harvard University School of Public Health evaluated the effectiveness of New Jersey's 1993 implementation of the Individual Health Coverage Program (IHCP).
March 11, 2013 | Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act's consumer operated and oriented plans, CO-OPs, are supposed to increase competition in the health insurance market. However, they face major challenges as they prepare for open enrollment in October, 2013.
March 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
June 1, 2004 | Issue Brief
Research Report Figure 7: Continuum of state individual insurance reform laws Faced with rapidly escalating premiums, fewer offers of insurance and, in some cases, a collapsing individual market, states adopted reforms designed to make coverage more ...
March 10, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 created prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries through regional stand-alone prescription drug plans and regional preferred provider organizations.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health examined the short- and long-term impact that conversions of hospitals from nonprofit to for-profit status have on their communities.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at the University of Alabama studied the effect of any willing provider (AWP) and freedom of choice (FOC) laws on Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and employers.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health updated an existing data set on U.S. urban hospital closings, mergers and other changes for the years 1936 through 1980 by extending the analysis through the mid-1990s.