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How Unaffordable is Health Care and What Can We Do About It?

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During this Health Wonk Shop, panelists considered affordability from a variety of perspectives, including how to define affordability and the question of affordability for whom, how to measure it, and what can be done to address affordability and the underlying cost of health care.

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  • Scoring Savings: How Can Quality Improvement Reduce Health Care Costs?

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the United Health Foundation co-sponsored this briefing on reducing health care costs while improving quality. Panelists engage in a full discussion of the issues looking at both federal spending and at national expenditures on health and address the following questions: How can the private sector contribute to a slowing of national health care expenditures? Are there examples of models that have been implemented in the marketplace and demonstrated they…

  • Healing Mind and Body: Behavioral Health and Reform

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    The Alliance for Health Reform, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Open Society Institute co-sponsored this event to examine how mental health and substance abuse disorder services fit into the health reform discussion. Panelists address the following questions: What mental health and substance use disorder provisions are included in the health reform proposals? What cautions exist regarding the inclusion of mental health/substance use disorder benefits in health care plans? How do the quality and…

  • Learning to Live in a World with the H1N1 Pandemic

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    On June 30, 2009, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, in partnership with the Congressional Global Health Caucus, sponsored a briefing on the current H1N1 flu outbreak.

  • Health Reform for New Health Reform Reporters

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    The Alliance for Health Reform sponsored this briefing for a small number of reporters to speed their learning about health reform. Topics addressed included: What's different about the health reform effort this time around? Who are the key players and their perspectives on reform? What are the key issues and points of disagreement? Exactly where are we in the process? How long is this likely to take? How could the different reform approaches affect ordinary…

  • Making the Case for Prevention: Tales from the Field

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this event featuring a panel of experts examining a range of prevention measures to improve the health of communities and the general population. Panelists addressed the following questions: What types of prevention models are working for business and government? What impact on health have prevention programs had? Does the evidence prove that prevention can cut costs? What emphasis should be placed on community…

  • The U.S. Strategy For Combating Malaria Around the World: Looking Forward

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation held a briefing on June 17, 2009, to examine the U.S. government's role in addressing malaria moving forward, including its strategic options for reducing the impact of the disease, and the current status of the development of the comprehensive malaria strategy.

  • Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Women at the State Level

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    A decade after U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher called for the elimination of racial disparities in health, women of color in every state continue to fare worse than white women on a variety of measures of health and health care access. The Foundation has created a package of resources, including a comprehensive report, state fact sheets, and interactive data tables, that illuminate and document the persistence of disparities on 25 indicators between white women and…

  • Consumer Choice in Health Care: How Could Reform Affect Our Choices? How Could We Make Better Choices?

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this event which brought together nationally known health policy experts for a conversation on consumer choice in health care. Panelists addressed the following questions: Why is choice of health care providers important? How much choice do we really have now? How much choice do we need? How might health reform affect our choices? In some instances, do we have too much choice? How…

  • Filling In The Long-Term Care Gaps

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    At a June 3 hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified on the key challenges to providing a larger role for private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities. Her testimony coincided with the release of a policy brief on long-term care financing by…

  • Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Sen. Max Baucus

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    This May 21, 2009 webcast features Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) at a Health Care Reform Newsmaker media briefing sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Business. The reporters-only sessions, designed to inform the public about prospects and options for health reform, feature a short presentation by an influential leader followed by an extended question-and-answer session. Transcript (.pdf) Video