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Counties with Thriving Small Businesses have Healthier Residents, LSU And Baylor Researchers Find
Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies with “absentee” owners,...
Employer Health Insurance Premiums Increased 50 Percent in Every State From 2003 to 2010
Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent as businesses required employees to contribute a greater share,...
Free Childbirth Unsustainable in Guinea Say Critics
Mortality rates in Guinea have dropped significantly over the past two decades, but efforts to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015 through a ban on childbirth fees, including...
Strategy for Improving Health Care for Uninsured, Low-income, And Minorities in the US
A new set of strategies released by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System could dramatically improve how the U.S. health care system serves vulnerable populations—those in the U.S. who are uninsured, low-income, or...
Nurse Practitioners ‘critical Link’ in Meeting New Care Demands Sparked By Health Reform
One of the nation’s leading voices in patient care and safety says that the key to successfully navigating the challenges and changes that health care reform will bring is the ability to “reimagine and redefine” what nursing is all about. How...
Insured And Still At Risk: Number of Underinsured Increased 80 Percent Between 2003 – 2010
The number of underinsured adults—those with health insurance all year, but also with very high medical expenses relative to their incomes—rose by 80 percent between 2003-2010, from 16 million to 29 million, according to a new Commonwealth Fund study...
Study Finds Payment for Pediatric Obesity Services Now Can Save Money Later
Pediatric obesity ends up costing $3 billion annually in the U.S., but a significant amount of that could be saved by streamlining medical coverage to address health issues affecting young obese patients now rather than waiting to treat conditions they...
Three Quarters of Those Who have Lost Jobs And Health Insurance are Skipping Needed Health Care
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health care or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report....
