[PDF] Presentation Of Major Health Insurance Proposals eBook

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309083435

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Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Health insurance
ISBN :

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1. Introduction and background -- 2. Approaches for reducing the number of uninsured people -- 3. Factors affecting insurance premiums -- 4. Proposals affecting the choice of an insurance plan -- 5. Factors affecting the supply and prices of health care services -- 6. Administrative issue and effects on other programs -- 7. Changes in health habits and medical practices -- 8. effects on total health care spending, the scope of the federal budget, and the economy, Tables, Figures, Boxes.

Author : Elizabeth I. Swanne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cost
ISBN : 9781607413301

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Concerns about the number of people who lack health insurance and about the high and rising costs of health insurance and health care have led to proposals that would substantially modify the health insurance system in this country. Medicare already provides nearly universal coverage to the elderly, those proposals generally focus on options for providing coverage to and reducing costs for the non-elderly population. They could, for example, provide new federal subsidies to pay some portion of health insurance premiums; impose mandates for individuals to purchase coverage or for employers to offer it and others. This book describes some of the key assumptions that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would use in estimating the effects of key elements of such proposals on federal costs, insurance coverage, and other outcomes.