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What the Health Care Reform Bill Will Mean for You and Your Family
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Maggie Mahar,
The Century Foundation,
3/25/2010
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Appearing on CNN yesterday morning, Senator Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) groused about what he called the “Europeanization” of health care. Translated, that means that we have decided to take a more collective approach to survival. If you cannot afford health insurance, your fellow citizens will help you pay for it. Hatch is correct: in 2014, a family of four earning $88,200 (or four times the federal poverty level) will get a subsidy to help buy insurance in the new Exchanges. $88,200 may sound like a fortune if you live in Idaho (where median income for a family of four is $58,000), but in Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey, $88,200 is actually less than median income for a family of four. Continue Reading on the Taking Note blog.
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The Health Beat by Maggie Mahar Blog
 The Century Foundation fellow, Maggie Mahar discusses today's most pressing health care policy issues in The Health Beat by Maggie Mahar blog. Click here to view.
Getting More Value from Medicare
In “Getting More Value from Medicare,” The Century Foundation, fellow and HealthBeat Blog editor Maggie Mahar points out that past proposals for containing Medicare’s costs, such as putting a cap on physicians’ fees or requiring beneficiaries to pay more for their care, have not worked.
Money-Driven Medicine
 View, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins 2006), a book by The Century Foundation's Health Fellow, Maggie Mahar. |
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A Second Opinion
Dr. Arnold Relman,
PublicAffairs,
The Century Foundation,
4/23/2007
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Medicare Tomorrow
The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform, Century Foundation Press
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