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September 17, 2012
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Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
January 1, 2001
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During 1994 and 1995, researchers from the Massachusetts Health Research Institute examined the effects of Chapter 495 on the health care market in Worcester, Mass.
March 1, 2000
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From 1997 to 1999, William Styring and Donald K. Jonas wrote the book Health Care 2020: The Coming Collapse of Employer-Provided Health Care.
December 1, 1998
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From 1992 to 1994, researchers at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University analyzed state-level policy-making for the medically uninsured.
January 9, 2013
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The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation analyzed the state's health insurance market to inform development of its health insurance exchange. The Vermont legislature adopted all of the recommendations in the law to establish the exchange.
February 27, 2003
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The American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine tested the effectiveness of advertising messages designed to move opinion leaders to support health care reform that deals with the problem of the uninsured.
May 1, 1998
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George Washington University compared consumer protections under state-regulated health care plans with protections available under employer-paid self-insured plans, which federal law exempts from state regulations.
April 30, 2013
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Social Interest Solutions created a tool to help states complete a "gap analysis" revealing which existing software and hardware they could use to create a new health insurance exchange and which resources they lacked.
July 31, 2009
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Staff at the health research division of the RAND Corporation created a microsimulation model that permits policy-makers, health care experts and the media to evaluate the potential effects of a variety of health reform proposals.
January 17, 2011
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George Washington University started the Health Insurance Reform Project to help policy-makers and others in the health care field understand changes and innovations occurring in the health care and insurance markets.
January 23, 2009
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From 1999 to 2007, the Alliance for Health Reform conducted issue briefings on health topics for congressional staff and journalists, and created additional resources for news reporters seeking unbiased information on health issues.
