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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.
April 15, 2011
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Program Result Report
Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
From 1991 to 1995, researchers at the University of Southern Maine, Human Services Development Institute compared health care utilization rates between previously uninsured and previously insured persons enrolled in state-sponsored insurance programs.
June 1, 2000
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In 1996, the editorial office of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, organized a conference that covered three arenas.
October 21, 2011
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Program Result Report
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) began in 1989 is the nation's largest source of private funding for investigator-initiated health policy research on financing and organization.
May 12, 2009
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Program Result Report
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.
January 1, 2001
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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
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Program Result Report
From 1991 to 1996, investigators at Harvard Medical School examined the effects of Medicaid eligibility expansions on a range of maternal and neonatal outcomes in California and South Carolina.
January 1, 2001
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From 1992 to 1995, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., assessed the overall effects of preferred provider organizations (PPOs) on hospital, outpatient, physician, and total health care costs and utilization. They compared costs of care in the PPOs with those of managed indemnity plans.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
During 1997 and 1998, the Regional Healthcare Advisory Council (RHAC) – created in June 1997 by the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors – developed a master plan for health care services in the county.
March 6, 2008
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Program Result Report
Researchers at Brandeis University used data from two state-run prescription drug programs for low-income seniors to examine how differences in prescription drug coverage affect enrollment, drug use and spending in state programs.
