scholarly journals 'Cure acceleration' funds woven into health reform legislation

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Wadman
Keyword(s):  
Health Reform ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Cure Acceleration

scholarly journals Have Gender Gaps in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Narrowed under Health Reform? Findings from Massachusetts

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 640-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon K Long ◽  
Karen Stockley ◽  
Shanna Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Need For Care ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Access And Affordability

Under its health reform legislation, Massachusetts has achieved near universal insurance coverage, along with significant gains in health care access and affordability. This paper examines the impacts of health reform in Massachusetts on differences in coverage, access, and affordability for women and men. We find that both women and men gained under health reform, with the gender gap in insurance coverage narrowed as men's coverage increased relative to that of women. However, the gaps in access and affordability of care have not narrowed—women in Massachusetts continue to report more unmet need for care and problems affording care than men.

scholarly journals AMA backs health reform legislation

BMJ ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 319 (7211) ◽  
pp. 657-657
Author(s):  
J. Ciment
Keyword(s):  
Health Reform ◽  
Reform Legislation

What Health Reform Teaches Us about American Politics

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 619-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence R. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Urgent Care ◽  
Emergency Rooms ◽  
White House ◽  
System Cost ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Party Control

The tumultuous journey of health reform from President Barack Obama's opening push in February 2009 to his bill signing in March 2010 may be inexplicable from afar. Swept into power on promises of change, Democrats controlled the White House and enjoyed the largest Congressional majorities in decades, and they agreed that the existing health care system cost too much and delivered too little—stranding over 30 million with no health insurance and leaving millions more with only inadequate coverage or dependent on emergency rooms for urgent care. Unified party control and programmatic agreement would seem like a veritable checklist of what was needed to pass health reform legislation.

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