We’re starting to get questions like: "You know, I haven't really been following this whole thing in detail, but now.... are there any good summaries of the debate I could look at?"
Here are some good places to start :
New York Times Topics: Health Care Reform
Health Affairs: Fact vs Fiction
Health Affairs: Health Policy Brief Key Issues in Health Reform (PDF)
Kaiser Family Foundation : Health Reform
Comparison of Pending Health Care Bills
For those of you more visually oriented, try the series of "napkin" talks by Dan Roam - a noted speaker on visual presentation of info
They may not be best-sellers, but we are all hearing about the House bill, H.R. 3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act and the Senate bill, S. _: Affordable Health Choices Act, together more commonly known and debated as Health Care Reform. These two bills – 1000+ pages from the House and 600+ pages from the Senate - are generating plenty of discussion, but what is really in them? If you are looking for good, readable summaries in order to better understand these two plans, the following may help :
A summary of the S._: Affordable Health Choices Act was prepared and released by the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 15. See the summary here (PDF).
Three House Committees: Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor prepared and released this summary of H.R. 3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act available here. This possibly more objective summary was prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The complete bills can be found here:
Final version of H.R. 3200
and draft version of S._
If you are interested in following the progression, Slate.com created this online guide to sources.
For an examination of how other countries manage their health care systems, check out this program from PBS :
Frontline: Sick Around the World
You can even watch it online.
Special thanks to Medlib-L for the above summary.
Here are some good places to start :
New York Times Topics: Health Care Reform
Health Affairs: Fact vs Fiction
Health Affairs: Health Policy Brief Key Issues in Health Reform (PDF)
Kaiser Family Foundation : Health Reform
Comparison of Pending Health Care Bills
For those of you more visually oriented, try the series of "napkin" talks by Dan Roam - a noted speaker on visual presentation of info
They may not be best-sellers, but we are all hearing about the House bill, H.R. 3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act and the Senate bill, S. _: Affordable Health Choices Act, together more commonly known and debated as Health Care Reform. These two bills – 1000+ pages from the House and 600+ pages from the Senate - are generating plenty of discussion, but what is really in them? If you are looking for good, readable summaries in order to better understand these two plans, the following may help :
A summary of the S._: Affordable Health Choices Act was prepared and released by the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 15. See the summary here (PDF).
Three House Committees: Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor prepared and released this summary of H.R. 3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act available here. This possibly more objective summary was prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The complete bills can be found here:
Final version of H.R. 3200
and draft version of S._
If you are interested in following the progression, Slate.com created this online guide to sources.
For an examination of how other countries manage their health care systems, check out this program from PBS :
Frontline: Sick Around the World
You can even watch it online.
Special thanks to Medlib-L for the above summary.
