January 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1991 to 1994, researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health evaluated the extent to which eight state risk pools that were established in 1988 or earlier have increased access to health insurance and health care.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
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.
April 4, 2007
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Program Result
Communities in Charge is a program to help broad-based community coalitions design and establish sustainable health care delivery systems.
April 6, 2007
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Program Result
In 2001, MaineHealth, a nonprofit health system serving southern and central Maine, established CarePartners, a health plan using a network of providers offering volunteer care to the uninsured.
March 1, 2006
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Program Result
SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., produced a series of five reports documenting the health and social progress and challenges of the nation's 100 largest cities and their suburbs between 1990 and 2000.
October 1, 2005
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Program Result
From September 1997 through January 2003, researchers at Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Cambridge, Mass., studied how a change in ownership from nonprofit to for-profit status ("conversion") affected hospitals' provision of community benefits, financial performance and relationships with other health care providers.
February 1, 2002
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Program Result
In 2000, Families USA, Washington, held its fifth annual national education conference for consumer health advocates.
April 30, 2010
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Issue Brief
While the lion's share of health care reforms under the Affordable Care Act will take place in 2014, a host of provisions are set to go into effect in 2010 and 2011.
January 13, 2010
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Issue Brief
A key component to the proposed health care legislation is the individual mandate, which requires all persons over the age of 18 to acquire health insurance.
September 29, 2009
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Issue Brief
The leading health reform bills in Congress raise debate about requiring individuals to have insurance and penalizing them if they don't.