July 17, 2009 - National health reform efforts are seeking to expand insurance coverage, improve quality of care, and "bend the health care cost curve." This publication highlights data from a Commonwealth Fund report that analyzed alternative approaches to defining the role of a public plan and presented estimates of the potential impacts on health spending compared with projected trends.
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June 24, 2009 - To illustrate how the potential impact of such reforms depends heavily on the details and structure of the reforms, the authors of this Policy Points brief examine estimates from three sources, all of which indicate that early investments in reform could yield significant reductions in total health care spending over time through gains in the quality and efficiency of care.
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March 20, 2009 - The Fund's Rachel Nuzum summarizes the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System report that recommends how to achieve affordable, universal coverage while improving health outcomes and slowing the rate of national health spending, by a cumulative $3 trillion through 2020.
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