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A New Deal for Health: How to Cover Everyone and Get Medical Costs under Control
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Leif Wellington Haase,
Century Foundation Press,
6/1/2005
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U.S. spending on health care has grown from $246 billion in 1980 to $1.7 trillion today. At the same time, the number of uninsured Americans has increased by 5 million over the past decade. These factors, along with concern over the quality of care, have brought the need for health care reform back into the headlines. A New Deal for Health offers a plan for these much-needed reforms, one that focuses on creating large risk pools while still allowing consumer choice and maintaining high quality care.
Leif Wellington Haase is a program officer and health care fellow
at The Century Foundation. Haase holds degrees from Yale
University and Princeton University. He has served as the staff director
of The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform and
was the coauthor of its final report, Medicare Tomorrow (2001). He
also is the author of The Basics: Medicare Reform (rev. ed.),
Breathing Easier? Report of The Century Foundation Working
Group on Bioterrorism Preparedness (2005), and articles on prescription
drugs and bioterrorism preparedness. More...
Read a summary and description of the plan here.
View the press release here (PDF).
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Edition: Online/ Paper
ISBN: 0870784943
Pages: 71
Price: $4.95
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