A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment
April 18, 2013 | Report
The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends ways to contain health care spending while improving the quality and affordability of care.
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Abolition of State-Regulated Hospital Payment Rates Has Minor Impact
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
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.
About the RWJF Index
June 17, 2009 | Book
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) is a monthly tracking of Americans' experiences with their own health care and attitudes about the future.
About This Initiative
July 13, 2009 | Story
More information about this two-year joint effort.
Academic Patents and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study explores the feasibility and desirability of proposals to change university patenting and licensing practices to promote access to medicines in the developing world.
A Case Study Series on Disruptive Innovations Within Integrated Health Systems
September 22, 2010 | Issue Brief
Disruptive innovations in health care have the potential to decrease costs while improving both the quality and accessibility of care.
Access and Affordability
May 28, 2009 | Journal Article
Access, affordability, and coverage have improved since 2006, but rising health costs have eroded some gains in affordability of care.
Access to and Affordability of Care in Massachusetts as of Fall 2008
May 28, 2009 | Issue Brief
Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Differences
Access to Health Care and Medicaid Top Concerns of State and Local Officials
November 1, 1996 | Program Result Report
Researchers at George Washington University, Washington, conducted a nationwide questionnaire survey to gather information on health policy and public health concerns of officials from governors' offices and legislative staff in almost every state.
Access to Prescription Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Despite the introduction of a Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit in January 2006, roughly the same proportion of elderly Medicare beneficiaries in 2003 and 2007--about 8 percent--skipped filling at least one prescription drug because of cost concerns, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.