Publications and Reports
"Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Stabilize but Remain High in 2002"
This Data Bulletin document discusses recent trends in health care cost growth.
Center for Studying Health System Change, June 2003
"Issues in Coverage: Options for Financing Health Coverage Expansion"
This paper, authored by Jack A. Meyer, and Elliot K. Wicks, is the fourth paper in the Issues in Coverage Expansion Design Series and discusses issues to be considered when policymakers decide how to finance new coverage programs, including the differences between budgetary and social costs, criteria for choosing a financing source, and various sources for funding.
Economic and Social Research Institute, April 2003
"Cost of Caring: Key Drivers of Growth in Spending on Hospital Care"
This report examines the factors behind the growth in spending on hospital care from 1997 to 2001 and government projections for future growth.
American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Federation of
American Hospitals (FAH), February 2003
"Average Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs for Medicare+Choice Enrollees Increase Substantially in 2002"
This issue brief updates to 2002 an earlier Commonwealth Fund
report, "Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses for Medicare HMO Beneficiaries:
Estimates by Health Status, 1999–2001."
Commonwealth Fund, November 2002
"Prescription Drug Costs and the Role of Generic Drugs: Public Opinion Among Americans Aged 45 and Over"
This nationally representative telephone survey of 1,046 Americans age 45 and over explores public opinion surrounding this legislation, prescription drug prices, and the continuing importance of a Medicare drug benefit bill.
AARP, October 2002
"What's Behind the Rise: A Comprehensive Analysis of Health Care Costs"
This BCBS briefing includes key findings from comprehensive research on the leading drivers behind rising healthcare costs. The report focuses on issues of hospital costs.
Blue Cross Blue Shield, October 2002
"Tracking Health Care Costs"
This Data Bulletin provides a 2002 update on trends in health care prices and spending.
Center for Studying Health System Change, September 2002
The Kaiser/HRET Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey
The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust have conducted this annual survey since 1999. The survey, which is traditionally released each Fall, tracks trends in employer health insurance coverage, the cost of that coverage, and other topical health insurance issues.
Kaiser Family Foundation
"Tracking Health Care Costs: Growth Accelerates Again in 2001"
This web-excusive article from
Health Affairs discusses findings that hospital costs have secured their place as the leading driver of health care cost increases, for the second straight year.
Health Affairs, September 2002
"Tracking Health Care Costs: Hospital Spending Spurs Double-Digit Increase in 2001"
This data bulletin discusses the jump in health care costs for privately insured Americans.
Center for Studying Health System Change, September 2002
"Health Care Costs 2002 - Watson Wyatt Worldwide Survey Results"
Survey presents a picture of how health care costs look in 2002 and how employers manage cost increases.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, 2002
"National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Report on Cutting Health Care Costs"
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) recently released a report on healthcare costs. The report provides an analysis on the drivers of healthcare costs.
National Conference of Insurance Legislators, June 2002
"Rising Health Care Costs: State Health Cost Containment Approaches"
This paper focuses on lessons learned from state cost containment efforts.
National Academy of State Health Policy. June 2002
"The Unraveling of Health Insurance"
The article outlines three emerging strategies employers are using to lower their health-related costs. These strategies include implementing or raising subscriber copayments and deductibles, creating personal health accounts and starting disease-management programs.
Consumer Reports, June 2002
"Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2001: Another Year of Escalating Costs"
Study examines the factors leading to the 17.1% increase in retail prescription drug spending from 2000-2001.
National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Education Foundation, April 2002
"The Factors Fueling Rising Healthcare Costs"
This report identifies the specific factors that are driving costs higher in the health care system. The report examines health care spending during 2001, finding that the average increase in health insurance premiums was 13.7 percent.
Price Waterhouse Coopers and American Association of Health Plans (AAHP), April 2002
"The Sad History of Cost Containment as Told in One Chart"
This analysis traces the effectiveness of government and private sector attempts to reign in health care costs over the past three decades and finds that no approach that has been tried in the past 35 years has had a lasting impact.
Health Affairs, January 23, 2002
"The Costs of Long-Term Care: Public Perceptions Versus Reality"
Report reveals that most Americans are uninformed about the costs of, and funding sources for, long-term care services. Yet the need for these services is expected to increase in the future.
AARP, December 11, 2001
"Consumers Face Higher Costs as Health Plans Seek to Control Drug Spending"
Examines health plans' strategies to contain drug spending and the possible consequences for consumers.
Center for Studying Health System Change, November 2001
"Tracking Health Care Costs"
This paper provides an update on trends in health care costs since 1999.
Center for Studying Health System Change/
Health Affairs, September 2001
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