A comparison of the health reform proposals by the Congressional committees with jurisdiction — House Ways and Means, Education, and Labor, and Senate Finance, Labor and Human Resources Committees — and the Administration’s Health Security Act to the current health care system in each of 14 different categories.

• Report: Health Reform Legislation: A Comparison of Committee Action

Warning: Inadequate Low-Income Subsidy Design Can Cause Problems for Health Care Reform

This report examines potential adverse consequences of low-income subsidy systems contained in the leading health care reform approaches including: work disincentives as a result of high marginal taxrates; employer incentives to drop coverage; and loss of coverage due to budgetary control mechanisms.

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Health Care Reform: The Long Term Care Factor

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This paper examines how the Clinton health care reform plan would affect the insurance coverage of Americans under age 65 and discusses the implications of the plan for employees and Medicaid programs nationally and in California, Florida, Michigan, New York, and Texas.

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This commentary outlines the important lessons that have been gained from experience with Medicaid payments to office-based physicians and discusses the implications of these lessons for future health care reform.

• Commentary: Lessons from Medicaid

This paper assesses the affordability of premiums and disincentives to work for a family of three under President Clinton’s plan, the Cooper/Breaux bill, the Chafee/Thomas bill, and the Wellstone/McDermott bill.

• Report: Families and National Health Reform: A Comparison…

• Report: Medicaid and Health System Reform: The Potential for Integration into an Employer-Based System

A comparison of the key features of alliance design in the Clinton, Chafee/Thomas, and Cooper/Breaux health reform proposals of 1994, examining the trade-offs inherent in alternative alliance design.(For more information about alliances, see #2063, Permitting Voluntary Enrollment in Regional Alliances Under the Health Security Act: The Impact on Spending for Employers and the Federal Government.)

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This article presents a profile of the uninsured population in the U.S., providing key facts on its size and demographics and the impact of lack of insurance on access to care and health status.

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Health Care Reform: Issues Relating to Managed Care

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