Resources and Reports
A Public Health Insurance Plan: Reducing Costs and Improving Quality
02/17/09 Report from Institute for America’s Future draws on research to demonstrate the benefits of offering a public health insurance plan, like Medicare for people under 65, as an alternative to private health insurance companies.
American Health Care Since 1994: The Unacceptable Status Quo
02/17/09 From the Center for American Progress. Looking at the 15 years since the Clinton health reform effort failed, "years of skyrocketing costs, increasing numbers of uninsured, and inconsistent quality of care."
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Providing Health Care to Those in Need
02/23/09 AFL-CIO summary of highlights of health-related investments in the stimulus bill, that will provide "health care to those in need while making a down payment on health reforms that will save billions of dollars and countless lives."
Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education: No Recovery in Sight
04/21/09 Two researchers at University of California at Berkeley calculate that the recession has increased the number of uninsured in the United States by 3.7 million -- and that the situation won’t improve, even when the economy does. One of the authors is Dave Graham-Squire, a member of CWA Local 9119 and vice-president local’s chapter at Berkeley.
Call to Action: Health Care Reform
12/08/08 Senator Max Baucus's vision for comprehensive health reform. The plan adresses health care coverage, quality, and cost.
Center for American Progress: Health Policy and the Economic Crisis
12/08/08 Testimony of the Center for American Progress's Jeanne Lambrew on the relationship between the economic crisis and health policy.
Commonwealth Fund: How Many Are Underinsured? Trends Among U.S. Adults, 2003 and 2007
08/27/08 It’s not just the 47 million uninsured who have trouble paying for the health care they need. This report estimates another 25 million are underinsured – they have coverage that doesn’t pay for needed services or hits patients with unaffordable deductibles and co-payments.
Commonwealth Fund: Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008
08/27/08 Comparing U.S. Health System performance overall with other developed countries and with top-performing states. The report finds U.S. performance has declined slightly in the past four years.
Health Care Excise Tax = A Big Middle Class Tax Increase
10/13/09 A proposed tax on health benefits, included in a health reform bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee, would mean an average tax of $7,800 on many working families, according to the analysis by the CWA Research Department.
Health Care Value Comparability Study
03/19/09 The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of large companies, finds that health costs put U.S. workers and companies at a competitive disadvantage compared to other industrial countries.
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