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"Play-or-Pay" Insurance Reforms for Employers

January 14, 2010 | Commentary

"Play-or-pay" presents employers with a choice: purchase health insurance policies for their workers or pay a penalty, in the form of a payroll tax. This practice perspective argues that "play-or-pay" rules will create an unfair distribution of health insurance subsidies.

A Focused Remedy is Best Cure for Health Care Crisis

January 8, 2009 | Commentary/Story

As Washington turn its eye toward health care reform, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., and Vernice Davis Anthony, president and CEO of the Greater Detroit Area Health Council, urge policy-makers to focus on what it means to "fix" health care and ask the hard questions about how medical care is delivered in this commentary published in the Detroit Free Press.

A Tour of the Proposals

March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary

To help direct people to reform plans that may be most useful to their current work, we now categorize the plans developed under the Covering America Project.

Conclusion

March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary

Covering America: A Timely Reprise

Replicating High-Quality Medical Organizations

February 10, 2010 | Commentary

Restructuring the U.S. health care delivery system to provide the kind of coordinated, patient-centered care that high-quality medical care organizations are now achieving will require new organizational arrangements, strong primary care and effective team performance.

Medicaid and the US Path to National Health Insurance

January 22, 2009 | Commentary

The U.S. already has in place a working system that policy-makers could enlarge to achieve universal health coverage: Medicaid. This perspective analysis proposes using Medicaid to cover the uninsured. The author argues Medicaid is a flexible program with bipartisan appeal.