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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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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.
April 16, 2010
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In September 2008, Families USA, a national nonprofit organization advocating for high-quality health care, convened 20 interest groups for a dialogue on the possible contours of health care reform.
December 21, 2009
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The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences studied how the lack of health insurance affects individuals, families, communities and the nation and produced and disseminated six reports analyzing these consequences.
January 1, 2001
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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.
December 1, 2002
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In 2000, the Anchorage Access to Health Care Coalition collected information on health care access in the community and engaged the community in developing options to improve access.
April 17, 2007
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Cover the Uninsured Week, March 10-16, 2003, focused national media attention on the coverage problem and featured hundreds of town meetings, health fairs and other public events in communities across the nation.
August 31, 1998
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Brandeis University's Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare planned, organized and conducted a conference on financing and delivering care for the poor and uninsured. They also published a book of papers on the same topic.
July 30, 2012
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Researchers at the University of Southern Maine analyzed the impact of new health plans in Maine and Massachusetts that were designed to cover uninsured residents, as part of State Health Access Reform Evaluation, an RWJF national program.
April 25, 2013
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From 2009 to 2011, the Rural Policy Research Institute examined the impact of health reform proposals and the Affordable Care Act on rural people, places, and providers, and gave policy-makers unbiased, nonpartisan analysis.
February 6, 2009
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Researchers with the Safety Net Assessment Project examined how individual- and community-level factors influence access to health care for low-income residents, and why their access varies in different metropolitan regions of the U.S.
