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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 18, 2011
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The National Health Policy Forum provides a nonpartisan, informal and private exchange of information and ideas about health policy among congressional and executive agency policy-makers and their staffs.
September 1, 2006
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From 1999 to 2000, researchers at the New York Academy of Medicine conducted a study of the history of the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
January 1, 1997
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Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. of the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, and Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D. of the Brookings Institution, Washington, wrote a book, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy (AEI/Brookings, 1995), about how Congress could improve its work in health policy.
August 27, 2009
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In early 2006, RWJF provided a renewal grant to the Alliance for Health Reform to continue its work informing congressional staff and journalists about health care issues. Funding extended from February 2006 to November 2008.
April 25, 2013
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The Coverage Ideas from the Field call for proposals sought projects to increase the likelihood that the nation's health care debate would lead to solutions and build momentum to drive federal policy-makers to act.
August 1, 2011
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PolicyLink, in partnership with the Food Trust and the Reinvestment Fund, developed and promoted model federal policies to improve local food environments and increase access to healthy, affordable foods.
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.
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.
May 1, 2007
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The Congressional Research Service strengthened its capacity to analyze major demographic, economic and social changes on health care issues pertaining to the elderly, children and the uninsured.
February 16, 2012
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The RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program awards six fellowships per year to mid-career health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health to take part in the health policy process at the federal level.
