Rx for Health Care Reform

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305 Notes Introduction 1. Jack Hadley and Peter J. Cunningham, Perception, Reality, and Health Insur‑ ance: Uninsured as Likely as Insured to Perceive Need for Care but Half as Likely to Get Care, Center for Studying Health System Change, Issue Brief no. 100, October 2005. 2. U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005, August 2006, 20. 3. Todd Gilmer and Richard Kronick, “It’s the Premiums, Stupid: Projections of the Uninsured through 2013,” Health Affairs Web Exclusive, April 5, 2005, 143–51. 4. Cathy Schoen, Michelle M. Doty, Sara R. Collins, and Alyssa L. Holmgren, “Insured but Not Protected: How Many Adults Are Underinsured?” Health Affairs Web Exclusive, June 14, 2005, 289–302. 5. Ibid. 6. P. J. Cunningham and J. H. May, Tough Trade‑offs: Medical Bills, Family Finances, and Access to Care, Center for Studying Health System Change, Issue Brief no. 85, June 2004; Michelle M. Doty, Jennifer N. Edwards, and Alyssa L. Holmgren, Seeing Red: Americans Driven into Debt by Medical Bills, Commonwealth Fund, Issue Brief, August 2005; David U. Himmelstein, Elizabeth Warren, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler, “Illness and Injury as Contributors to Bankruptcy,” Health Affairs Web Exclusive, February 2, 2005, 63–73. 7. John Leland, “When Even Health Insurance Is No Safeguard,” New York Times, October 23, 2005. 8. Jon Gabel, Gary Claxton, Isadora Gil, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Benjamin Finder, Samantha Hawkins, and Diane Rowland, “Health Benefits in 2005: Premium Increases Slow Down, Coverage Continues to Erode,” Health Affairs, September/October 2005, 1273–80; Gary Claxton, Jon Gabel, Isadora Gil, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitemore, Benjamin Finder, Blanca DiJulio, and Samantha Hawkins, “Health Benefits in 2006: Premium Increases Moderate, Enrollment in Consumer-Directed Health Plans Remains Modest,” Health Affairs Web Exclusive, September 26, 2006, 476–85. 9. Tony Pugh, “Health Cost to Double in Decade,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 22, 2006. 10. Uwe Reinhardt, quoted in Howard Larkin, “Downsizing Health Coverage,” Hospitals & Health Networks, September 2005. 11. Gabel et al., “Health Benefits in 2005.” 12. Danny Hakim, “G.M. and Union in a Deal to Cut Health Benefits,” New York Times, October 18, 2005. 13. Danny Hakim and Jeremy W. Peters, “Union Offers Details of Health Deal with G.M., New York Times, October 21, 2005. 14. Mercer Human Resources Consulting, 2005 U.S. Survey of Employer‑Sponsored Health Plans, March 2006. 15. Reed Abelson, “States Are Battling against Wal-Mart over Health Care,” New York Times, November 1, 2004. 16. Vanessa Fuhrmans, “More Employers Try Limited Health Plans,” Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2006. 17. Vanessa Fuhrmans, “Few Uninsured Workers Opt for Employers’ New Health Plans,” Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2006. 18. Richard Marosi, “Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2005. 19. David M. Cutler and Mark McClellan, “Is Technological Change Worth It?” Health Affairs, September/October 2001, 11–29; Mark V. Pauly, “Should We Be Worried about High Real Medical Spending Growth in the United States?” Health Affairs Web Exclusive, January 8, 2003, 15–27; Sherry Glied, “Are We in a Health Care Crisis?” PBS.org, www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/Exprts_intrvw/ s_glied.htm; Gina Kolata, “Making Health Care the Engine That Drives the Economy,” New York Times, August 22, 2006. 20. National Coalition on Health Care, Building a Better Health Care System: Specifications for Reform, July 2004. 21. Cathy Schoen, Sabrina K. H. How, Ilana Weinbaum, John E. Craig Jr., and Karen Davis, “Public Views on Shaping the Future of the U.S. Health System,” Commonwealth Fund Report, August 2006. 22. Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs, “Getting Covered: Choose a Plan Everyone Can Agree On,” Boston Review, November/December 2005. 23. Robert Pear, “Planned Medicaid Cuts Cause Rift with States,” New York Times, August 13, 2006. 24. L. M. Nichols, P. B. Ginsburg, R. A. Berenson, R. Christianson, and R. E. Hurley, “Are Market Forces Strong Enough to Deliver Efficient Health Care Systems? Confidence Is Waning,” Health Affairs, March/April 2004, 8–21. 25. Alain Enthoven, “Market Forces and Efficient Health Care Systems,” Health Affairs, March/April 2004, 25–27. 26. Wayne J. Guglielmo, “The New Medicare Law: Doctors Cheer,” Medical Economics, January 9, 2004. 27. Uwe Reinhardt, interview with the author, April 2004. Chapter 1. How We Got Into This Mess 1. Thomas Bodenheimer, “The Political Divide in Health Care: A Liberal Perspective ,” Health Affairs, November/December 2005, 1426–35. 2. Daniel Yankelovich, “The Debate That Wasn’t: The Public and the Clinton Plan,” Health Affairs...