Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
by Tom Daschle with Jeanne M. Lambrew and Scott S. Greenberger
COST DRIVERS
Congressional Budget Office. The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending.
Washington, D.C.: CBO, 2007
The Rising Prevalence Of Treated Disease: Effects on Private Health Insurance Spending
Thorpe KE, et al. Health Affairs 2005; Web Exclusive, June 27, 2005.
Slowing the Growth of U.S. Health Care Expenditures: What Are the Options?
January 29, 2007, Commonwealth Fund, Authors: Karen Davis, Ph.D., Cathy Schoen, M.S., Stuart Guterman, Tony Shih, M.D., M.P.H., Stephen C. Schoenbaum
Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Health Care
Peter Orzag Congressional Budget Office
QUALITY
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.
Institute of Medicine, ed. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences; 2001.
National Healthcare Quality Report: 2007,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Paying For Quality: Providers’ Incentives For Quality Improvement Health Affairs
March/April 2004; 23(2): 127-141
Medicare Spending, The Physician Workforce, And Beneficiaries’ Quality Of Care
Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra, Health Affairs Web Exclusive, April 7, 2004
CHRONIC DISEASE
An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease
Milken Institute
Almanac of Chronic Disease
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
Disease Overview. 2008.
Making Health Care More Affordable: Estimated Savings from Care Coordination
Lifestyle Change, and System Redesign in Senator Obama's Health Care Plan. 2008.
The Chronic Care Model
Chronic Disease Management: Evidence of Predictable Savings
Health ManagementAssociates, November 2008
The Advanced Medical Home: A Patient-Centered, Physician-Guided Model of Health Care,
Policy Monograph of the American College of Physicians, 7 January 22, 2006
PREVENTION
The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
Institute of Medicine. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences; 2002.
The Value of Prevention
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease & Partnership for Prevention
Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
INSURANCE
Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2008 Current Population Survey
Employer Health Benefits: 2008 Annual Survey
Facts and Research on the Uninsured, Cover the Uninsured
The Uninsured: A Primer
Kaiser Family Foundation
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2008-2012
Accelerating Progress, Using Health Information Technology and Electronic Health Information Exchange to Improve Care
State Alliance for Health Reform
Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?
OTHER RESOURCES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Institute of Medicine
Congressional Budget Office
Government Accountability Office
United States Senate Committee on Finance
United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
United States House Committee on Ways and Means
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
Commonwealth Fund
Kaiser Family Foundation
New America Foundation
Improving Chronic Illness Care
National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Quality Forum