Healthy Mountain Communities

Healthy Mountain Communities

Health Care & Insurance Readings

2006

Governing Magazine, September
Penelope Lemov

A Dose of Transparency: State-sponsored Web sites are enabling consumers to compare hospital and physician prices and performance.
What Health Care Needs to Be About (interview with Elizabeth Teisberg, co-author with Michael E. Porter of “Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results,” (published by Harvard Business School Press) and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.

YES! Magazine, FALL

Health Care: It's What Ails Us
by Doug Pibel and Sarah van Gelder

Has Canada Got the Cure?
by Holly Dressel

Just the Facts
by Lilja Otto

Health Care Options at a Glance
by Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel

If You Ask Maine
by Tish Tanski

Governing Magazine, May
Penelope Lemov

Risk Reduction: Government-backed reinsurance could make health coverage more affordable for the middle class.
Bringing Down the Cost of Health Insurance (interview with Katherine Swartz, Professor of health policy and management at Harvard's School of Public Health)

2005

2004

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine, 2004.
Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

Governing Magazine, February
A Case of Neglect: Why Health Care Is Getting Worse, Even Though Medicine Is Getting Better

Insurance Coverage: Access Denied

Two Grand Experiments

States that Stand Out

The Brave New World of Health Care
Richard Lamm, 2004.

2003

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System

Robert Lebow, 2003

The Health of Nations: Instead of forcing seniors into HMOs, how about forcing them to exercise? Phillip Longman, April 2003. The Washington Monthly.

Communities sustain public health improvements through organized partnership structures. April 2003. The Lewin Group. W. K. Kellogg Foundation. www.wkkf.org

2002

More than a Market: Making Sense of Health Care Systems. September 2002. Community Voices. W. K. Kellogg Foundation. www.communityvoices.org.

2001

Community Based Health Plans for the Uninsured: Expanding Access, Enhancing Dignity. November 2001. Community Voices. www.communityvoices.org

Healthy Colorado: First Thoughts on a Plan to Ensure Coverage for All Coloradans. August, 2001. Barbara Yondorf, Yondorf & Associates. Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved. www.ccmu.org.

2001 Colorado Health Data Book: Insurance, Access & Expenditures. Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved. www.ccmu.org.

2000

Finding the Balance Points: The Changing State of Health Care in King County. January 2000. King County Health Action Plan: Collaborative Partnerships Improving Community Health. www.metrokc.gov/health.

Community Initiatives for the Uninsured: How Far Can Innovative Partnerships Take Us? The New York Academy of Medicine. Division of Health and Science Policy Office of Urban Populations. Dennis Andrulis Michael Gusmano August 2000.

Communities in Action: Best Practices on Expanding Access to Health Care. National Association of Counties www.naco.org.

A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal. Physicians for a National Health Program. www.pnhp.org.

last update on 09.05.2006