State taking wait-and-see approach to healthcare reform, Rapid City Journal - (January 29, 2012)
Yet if states don't meet the deadline, that's exactly what could happen, according to Lorez Meinhold with the Colorado governor's office. In the new study by Urban Institute titled "State Progress Toward Health Reform Implementation," Colorado was ranked in Group 1, which means it's a state that has made sufficient progress toward implementing an exchange program.
Romney's Unlikely And Persuasive Defense Of The 'Individual Mandate, NPR - (January 27, 2012)
"We find the state is continuing to do quite well in terms of maintaining high levels of health insurance coverage and improvements in access to care," said lead author Sharon Long of the University of Minnesota and the Urban Institute. "Including for the first time we're seeing reductions in emergency department use, and also some improvements in health status. So really, some very positive changes that came with health reform."
John R. Graham: California hospitals' unhealthy dependence on government, Orange County Register - (January 27, 2012)
According to Stephen Zuckerman of the Urban Institute, and colleagues, Medi-Cal's fees for physicians grew 2 percent from 2003-08, while overall inflation was 20 percent. And the Medi-Cal fees were only 56 percent of the fees paid by Medicare, the federal medical program that covers seniors.
Healthcare in Florida: A reform laggard with much to gain, Government Health IT - (January 27, 2012)
In addition to being the sole state named on the moniker Florida et al vs. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services case that the Supreme Court will hear in late March, Florida is one of four states trailing the most on health reform.
That's according to a survey published this week by the self-described non-partisan Urban Institute, which listed those states as Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Ohio.
Report: Many states lag in implementing healthcare law, The Hill - (01/25/2012)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute said Monday that 15 states have made "little or no progress" implementing a key piece of the new law — an insurance exchange where individuals and small businesses can buy private insurance.
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But the Urban Institute analysis released Monday isn't as upbeat. It says there are major discrepancies in how much progress states have made, and that the most resistant states have the most to lose.
Should Everyone Be Required to Have Health Insurance?,Wall Street Journal - (January 24, 2012)
But let's be clear. Uninsured individuals who need care, particularly catastrophically expensive care, generally receive these services anyway. A decision not to pay for insurance—to become a free rider—leads hospitals and other providers to charge other patients more to make up the difference. People shouldn't have the freedom to shift the burden to everybody else.
And it's a real burden. Yes, uncompensated care in 2008 as measured by the Urban Institute was a modest proportion of total health spending in the U.S. But when you're talking about health care, "modest" is still a lot of money. In 2008, 2.2% of total spending equaled $56 billion.
Editorial: Finding a cure for 'charity care' ills, Star Tribune - (January 23, 2012)
A new study from the respected Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute offers further evidence why those concerned with individual responsibility will celebrate the mandate's legal survival.
Obama's health overhaul lags in many states, Boston.com - (January 23, 2012)
"There will be something there, but if it doesn't mesh with the state's culture and if the state is not really supporting it, that certainly won't help it succeed," said Urban Institute senior researcher Matthew Buettgens.
Junk Food: The Bane of Health and Health Providers, Hospitals and Health Networks - (January 9, 2012)
The impact of this plague has been documented in study after study. One such report is "Reducing Obesity: Policy Strategies from the Tobacco Wars," which was released in 2009 by Carolyn L. Engelhard and Arthur Garson Jr. of the University of Virginia and Stan Dorn of the Urban Institute.
Engelhard and Garson cited a 2008 Congressional Budget Office report that said per capita health care spending rises by 34 percent when an individual is obese and by 70 percent when an individual is morbidly obese. More than one-quarter of increased medical costs between 1987 and 2001 involved obesity-related expenditures, the report noted.
Reform: 65% of employers will drop health plans in 2014 if . . . HR Morning - (January 5, 2012)
White House officials questioned the validity of the studies. They cited two other studies — one from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and one from the Urban Institute — that both projected the reform law will have little effect on employer-sponsored plans.
Hospice Turns Months-to-Live Patient Into Years of Abusing Drugs, Bloomberg News - (January 3, 2012)
The discharge of 200,000 hospice patients raises the question of whether they were really dying in the first place, said Robert Berenson, a fellow at the Urban Institute and the vice chairman of Medpac, an advisory commission to Congress on health-care policy.
Health reform after 2014: Not-so-universal coverage, American Medical News - (January 2, 2012)
The health reform law's coverage expansion will vary somewhat by state, but each region of the U.S. is expected to see its uninsured population shrink by roughly half, according to a March 2011 analysis by the Urban Institute, a think tank. About 30 million people are expected to obtain health coverage through private health plans or Medicaid by the end of the decade, leaving about 20 million without coverage.
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