In critical condition: America's ailing health care system : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, Washington, DC, March 10, 2003, Volume 4 |
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Page 24 - American medicine... .[They] occur in small and large communities alike, in all parts of the country and with approximately equal frequency in managed care and fee-for-service systems of care. Very large numbers of Americans are harmed as a result (Chassin and Galvin, 1998: 1000). Likewise, two subsequent IOM studies — To Err is Human...
Page 1 - US SENATE, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING, Washington, DC. The committee convened, pursuant to notice, at 2 pm, in room SD-628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon.
Page 69 - Brigitte C. Madrian and Dennis F. Shea, "The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior," Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, no.
Page 21 - My name is Paul B. Ginsburg, and I am an economist and president of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). HSC is an independent, nonpartisan health policy research organization funded principally by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research. HSC's main research tool is the Community Tracking Study, which consists of national surveys of households and physicians in 60 nationally representatives communities...
Page 21 - ... Foundation and affiliated with Mathematica Policy Research. HSC's main research tool is the Community Tracking Study, which consists of national surveys of households and physicians in 60 nationally representatives communities across the country and intensive site visits to 12 of these communities. We also monitor secondary data and general health system trends. Our goal is to provide members of Congress and other policy makers with objective and timely research on developments in health care...
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Page 61 - The views 1 express in this testimony are my own, and do not represent an official position of the Foundation.1 . The health care proposals now being debated in the country are intended to do three things: deal with gaps in insurance coverage, address the worries of insured Americans who may lose coverage if...
Page 34 - Health Spending Projections for 2002-2012," Health Affairs web exclusive, February 7, 2003.
Page 69 - Expanding Coverage Via Tax Credits: Trade-Offs and Outcomes," Health Affairs, volume 20, no. 1, January/February 2001, p. 16 7 A recent study found that automatic enrollment for 401(k) plans boosted participation rates from 37 percent to 86 percent for such voluntary pensions, with even sharper increases for young and lower-paid employees. See Brigitte...