Below are links to significant studies and reports that have been recently released containing data on various aspects of health care and health care expenditures in the United States and around the world. More information may be obtained by visiting the websites of public agencies and private organizations that conduct and publish research on this topic, and from public agencies that analyze proposed legislation.
- November 18, 2009, CBO estimate of the effect of Senator Reid's health care reform bill on the federal deficit.
- November, 2009 report of the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommending against routine mammograms for women aged 40-49.
- November 13, 2009, CMS report on H.R. 3962 as adopted by the House of Representatives, describing how the law would increase coverage to 34 million more Americans but would not result in any overall reductions in total expenditures on health care.
- November 12, 2009, Business Roundtable report on how proposed legislation would affect the overall cost of health care in the United States, supporting the Senate Finance Committee bill and opposing a public option.
- November 4, 2009, CBO report on the House Republican bill.
- October 29, 2009 CBO report on the House Democratic bill, H.R. 3962.
- 2007 Update from AMA on Concentration of Health Insurance Market in the United States.
- May 2009 Report from Health Care for America Now describing concentration of health insurance market in the United States.
- October 9, 2009, CBO Report showing how tort reform would reduce health care costs by one-half of one percent.
- 2009 Harvard Study showing that the lack of health insurance increases the risk of death by 40%.
- September 30, 2009 OECD Statement to Senate Special Committee on Aging entitled "Why Does the United States Spend So Much More [on Health Care] than Other Countries?
- October 7, 2009, CBO estimate of the cost of the Senate Finance Committee bill to the federal government.
- 2009 WHO World Health Statistics (download from this page), showing the United States behind most other industrialized countries in infant mortality, life expectancy, and other measures of health.
- June 29, 2009 CMS Report on Projected Health Expenditure Projections 2010-2019, showing that spending on health care in the United States will double over the next ten years.
- 2008 AHIP Report on The Factors Feuling Rising Health Care Costs, an insurance industry study showing that health care expenditures have doubled over the past decade, rising at a rate approximately double that of inflation, and finding the principal reasons were increased prices by providers and increased utilization by patients.
- October 11, 2009 AHIP Report on the Potential Impact of Health Reform on the Cost of Private Health Insurance Coverage, finding that the Senate Finance Committee bill would not cut total health care expenditures, but rather would result in an increase in health care spending in the United States.
- September, 2009 report from the Brookings Institute entitled "Bending the Curve: A Comparative Review of the Senate Finance Committee Reform Proposal," assessing the extent to which the Baucus bill comported with the August, 2009 recommendations of the Brookings Institute."
- August, 2009 report from the Brookings Institute entitled "Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth."
- July 17, 2008 report from the Commonwealth Fund entitled "Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008," providing statistics on a number of measures and evaluating the overall performance of the U.S. health care system at 65 out of 100.
- May 15, 2007 report from the Commonwealth Fund entitled "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care," ranking the United States' health care system last among six industrialized nations.
- 2000 WHO World Health Report ranking the performance of the United States' health system as 37th out of 191 countries.
Below: October 21, 2009 CMS Study showing that over the next ten years H.R. 3200 would insure 34 million more people but would not reduce the total cost of health care in the United States. This report has now been replaced by the November 13, 2009 CMS study on the effects of H.R. 3962, set forth above. |
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