Policy Research

If we don't reform the health system, up to 66 million could be uninsured by 2019 and health care costs will continue to rise. The color of the state indicates the percent increase in individual and family spending on health care from now to 2019.

New policy brief explores the debate over requiring individuals to have insurance and penalizing them if they don’t.

Issue brief explores outreach effort under Maryland’s Kids First Act and identifies lessons learned for other states.

Survey shows users of emergency rooms have trouble accessing care in other settings, and frequent users of emergency rooms are a sicker, more disabled, and more chronically ill population than other adults in the state.

Under the dominant U.S. system, most health-care providers are paid a fixed fee for each service they provide, in most cases with no limits on those services and without regard for results.

Philadelphia Inquirer posts op-ed by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and William L. Roper on survey of doctors' views on health care.

Latest brief explains new federal estimates of uninsured at the local level, identified by Census’ American Community Survey.

This slide is from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform's report, How to Create Accountable Care Organizations (September 2009).

What are Americans most afraid of when it comes to health care? How many are delaying the care they need? Are consumers confident or worried about the future?