MAD Reference - Bibliographies and Guides - Health Care Reform
The appointment of Hillary Rodham Clinton as head of a government inquiry into universal health care has focused the nation's attention on this issue. This guide is an attempt to bring together a selection of recent federal publications on this topic held in the first floor Microforms and Documents Department of the library. In this case, "recent" is defined as "since the beginning of the Bush Administration," or January 1989 through March 1993.
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH PUBLICATIONS
The President's Comprehensive Health Reform Program Feb. 1992
Call Number: Pr 41.2:H 34(94 pgs.)
- This was President Bush's plan to guarantee health insurance for all Americans, control medical costs, and reform medical
malpractice liability. Includes a bibliography.
Health Benefits and the Workforce1992
Call Number: L 1.2:H 34/6(269 pgs.)
The Department of Labor awarded a contract to the Rand Corporation to analyze employment and health insurance behaviors of firms and workers, monitor health insurance market practices and states' legislative activities, and model the impact of alternative reform proposals. This report summarizes their findings.
Employee Benefits in a Changing Economy: A BLS ChartbookSept. 1992
Call Number: L 2.3:2394(72 pgs.)
This chartbook (a series of attractive graphs with sparse text) presents an array of information on employer-provided benefits and shows how they have changed over time. About one quarter of the book deals with medical benefits.
Department of Health and Human Services
Determinants of Total Family Charges for Health Care: United States, 1980Nov. 1990
Call Number: HE 22.26/4:8(66 pgs.)
This report uses the family as the unit of analysis in attempting to determine the precise burden of health expenses. Total charges for health care are compared with out-of-pocket expenses, thereby giving a clearer indication of financial impact on families.
The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Illness: 19851990
Call Number: HE 20.8002:C 82(296 pgs.)
Strictly speaking, this is not a study of health care costs per se, but rather an attempt to measure the economic costs to society of alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness. The authors used data for 1985, the most recent year for reliable data.
Health Insurance Coverage in the U. S.1989
Call Number: HE 20.6502:In 7/4(4 pgs.)
A very brief summary of the topic, based on the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. Includes graphs and statistics.
Health Insurance, Use of Health Services, and Health Care ExpendituresDec. 1991
Call Number: HE 20.6517:12(18 pgs.)
This report from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey focuses on the relationship between insurance coverage and the use of health services, total expenditures, total out-of-pocket payments, and the proportion of medical care expenditures paid out of pocket.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH PUBLICATIONS
Congressional Budget Office
Medicare's Disproportionate Share Adjustment for HospitalsMay 1990
Call Number: Y 10.2:M 46/6(71 pgs.)
Options for Paying Military PhysiciansJuly 1990
Call Number: Y 10.2:M 59/10(72 pgs.)
Physician Payment Reform Under MedicareApril 1990
Call Number: Y 10.2:P 56/2(81 pgs.)
Policy Choices for Long-term CareJune 1991
Call Number: Y 10.2:P 75/3(154 pgs.)
Projections of National Health ExpendituresOct. 1992
Call Number: Y 10.2:P 94/4(57 pgs.)
Restructuring Health Insurance for Medicare EnroleesAug. 1991
Call Number: Y 10.2:H 34/5(74 pgs.)
Rising Health Care Costs: Causes, Implications, and StrategiesApr. 1991
Call Number: Y 10.2:H 34/3(90 pgs.)
Selected Options for Expanding Health Insurance CoverageJuly 1991
Call Number: Y 10.2:H 34/4(79 pgs.)
Subsidies Under Medicare and the Potential for Disenrollment Under a Voluntary CatastrophicProgram Sept. 1989
Call Number: Y 10.2:M 46/4(37 pgs.)
Universal Health Insurance Coverage Using Medicare's Payment RatesDec. 1991
Call Number: Y 10.2:H 34/6(61 pgs.)
Updated Estimates of Medicare's Catastrophic Drug Insurance ProgramOct. 1989
Call Number: Y 10.2:M 46/5(64 pgs.)
General Accounting Office
Health ReportsJune 1992
Call Number: GA 1.13:HRD-92-126(37 pgs.)
This is a bibliography which summarizes certain reports and testimonies published by the GAO from November 1991 through June 1992. In addition, there is a listing of other health-related publications issued between June 1990 and June 1992. (NOTE: This publication includes information on how individuals can get on a Health Reports mailing list and even how to order single copies of publications at no charge.)
Auburn University does not receive all GAO publications, but patrons can examine what we have under SuDocs call number GA 1.13:HRD-##. The number after the dash indicates the year of publication.
Office of Technology Assessment
Does Health Insurance Make a Difference?--Background PaperSept. 1992
Call Number: Y 3.T 22/2:2 H 34/6(80 pgs.)
Evaluation of the Oregon Medicaid ProposalMay 1992
Call Number: Y 3.T 22/2:2 M 46/6/sum.(22 pgs.)
Home Drug Infusion Therapy Under MedicareMay 1992
Call Number: Y 3.T 22/2:2 D 84/6(214 pgs.)
Medical Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace: Results of a Survey--Background PaperOct. 1991
Call Number: Y 3.T 22/2:2 M 46/15(84 pgs.)
Congressional Hearings and Committee Prints
The Pepper Commission: U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care (The late Congressman Claude Pepper was chairman of this commission, which conducted its hearings during the 101st Congress.)
A Call for Action: Final ReportSept. 1990
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/final(315 pgs.)
A Call For Action: Supplement to the Fianl ReportSept. 1990
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/final/supp.(241 pgs.)
Access to Health and Long-term CareMay 25, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 1(197 pgs.)
Health Care in Rural America: The Frontier PerspectiveJune 18, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 2(211 pgs.)
Business, Labor, and Consumers: Views on Health Care and Long-term CareJuly 5, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 3(85 pgs.)
Small Business Health Care Problems and Long-term CareJuly 6, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 4(389 pgs.)
The Insurance Industry and Access to Health Care and Long-term CareAug. 21, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 5(76 pgs.)
The Shadow Caregivers: American Families and Long-term CareNov. 13, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 6(120 pgs.)
Long-term Care and Access to Health Care: Examining the Scope of the ProblemsSept. 21, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 7(209 pgs.)
Options in Long-term CareOct. 5, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 8(680 pgs.)
Options in Access to Health CareOct. 24, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 9(777 pgs.)
Assessing the Affordability of Private Long-term Care InsuranceNov. 8, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 10(84 pgs.)
Long-term Care and Access to Health Care: The West Virginia ExperienceDec. 13, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/pt. 12(251 pgs.)
Recommendations to the Congress by the Pepper CommissionMarch 2, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/recomm.(21 pgs.)
A Call For Action: Executive SummarySept. 1990
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:P 39/sum.(18 pgs.)
Other Congressional Hearings and Prints
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides: the Ethics of Health Care RationingJune 19, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:S.hrg. 102-570(140 pgs.)
Linking Medical Education and Training to Rural America: Obstacles and OpportunitiesJuly 19, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:S.hrg. 102-573(166 pgs.)
Low-income Medicare Beneficiaries: Have They Been Forgotten?July 24, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:S.hrg. 102-578(112 pgs.)
The Effects of Escalating Drug Costs on the ElderlyApril 23, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:S.hrg. 102-787(113 pgs.)
Health Care Reform: The Time Has ComeFeb. 10-12, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:S. hrg. 102-956(349 pgs.)
Earning a Failing Grade: A Report Card on 1992 Drug Manufacturer Price InflationFeb. 1993
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4:S.hrg. 103-14(37 pgs.)
Emptying the Elderly's Pocketbook--Growing Impact of Rising Health Care CostsMarch 1990
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:El 2/49(33 pgs.)
National Health Care: The Financial Impact on Seniors and their FamiliesMay 28, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:F 49/5(133 pgs.)
Health Care Costs for America's Elderly, 1977-88March 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:H 34/44(24 pgs.)
Health Care Needs of the ElderlyJuly 31, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:H 34/45(79 pgs.)
Health Care Problems of the Black ElderlyJune 24, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:H 34/46(227 pgs.)
The Future of Health Care for Seniors: Where Do We Go from Here?Dec. 4, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:H 34/47(76 pgs.)
The Crisis in Rural Health Care: Problems of Access, Affordability and QualityAug. 16, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:H 34/49(252 pgs.)
The Nation's Health Care Crisis: the Long-term Care GapOct. 28, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:H 34/51(49 pgs.)
Nationalized Health Insurance: The Lessons of Catastrophic CareApr. 13, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:In 8/5(82 pgs.)
Long-term Care: the Critical NeedSept. 15, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:L 85/17(114 pgs.)
The Administration's Back-door Cuts in Medicare BenefitsSept. 23, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:M 46/41(144 pgs.)
The Nation's Health Care CrisisOct. 25, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ag 4/2:N 21/3(91 pgs.)
Health Care Issues for Fiscal Year 1990March 7, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:101-5-1(173 pgs.)
Aids Funding Issues--Impact Aid, Early Intervention, Research, and PreventionMar. 7, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:101-5-6(155 pgs.)
Critical Health Funding IssuesMarch 13, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:101-5-8(234 pgs.)
Health Care Crisis: Problems of Cost and AccessOct. 31 and Nov. 5, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:101-5-13(168 pgs.)
Health Care Crisis: Problems of Cost and Access for Children of ColorNov. 19, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:101-5-14(82 pgs.)
The Cost, Quality and Access of Health CareJan. 15, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:102-5-3(176 pgs.)
Medical Research: Federal Investments to Improve Public Health and the Nation's EconomySept. 23, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:102-5-4(63 pgs.)
Health Care Cost and AccessJune 19, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.B 85/3:102-17(232 pgs.)
The Changing Face of Health Care: the Movement toward Universal AccessDec. 11, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.C 43/2:H 34/3(201 pgs.)
The Future of Health Care in AmericaMay 1988
Call Number: Y 4.Ec 7:H 34/8/pt. 1(876 pgs.)
The Future of Health Care in AmericaJune 1988
Call Number: Y 4.Ec 7:H 34/8/pt. 2(925 pgs.)
Better Health Care for Rural AmericaDec. 13, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ec 7:H 34/9(86 pgs.)
Health-care Reform: How to Push Less Paper and Treat More PatientsOct.-Dec. 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ec 7:H 34/12(785 pgs.)
The Structure of the Hospital Industry in the 21st CenturyJune 17 & 24, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Ec 7:H 79(387 pgs.)
Medical Alert: A Staff Report Summarizing the Hearings on "The Future of Health Care in America"Oct. 2, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ec 7:M 46/3(61 pgs.)
Hearings on the Growing Crisis in Health Care: The Basic Health Benefits for All AmericansAct (H.R. 1845) and Other National Health Care Policy OptionsOct. 11-12, 1989
Call Number: Y 4.Ed 8/1:101-64(331 pgs.)
Field Hearing of Health Care Access IssuesNov. 2, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.Ed 8/1:102-83(124 pgs.)
Oversight Hearing on National Health Care ReformMay 7, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Ed 8/1:102-104(105 pgs.)
Proposals to Reduce Medicare OutlaysJuly 27, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:101-184(305 pgs.)
Access to Health InsuranceSept. 19,1990
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:101-212(272 pgs.)
Oregon Medicaid Rationing ExperimentSept. 16, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:102-49(277 pgs.)
Health Care ReformJuly-Oct. 1991
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:102-85(374 pgs.)
Long-term Care Insurance StandardsOct. 24, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:102-87(173 pgs.)
Health Care Fraud and Waste (Part One)Oct. 1991
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:102-107(216 pgs.)
Healthright: Minnesota's Proposed Health Care Access LegislationApril 3, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.En 2/3:102-123(153 pgs.)
Health Care for the UninsuredJune 1989
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 101-566/pt. 1(1,126 pgs.)
Health Care for the UninsuredFeb.-Ap. 1989
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 101-566/pt. 2(308 pgs.)
Health Care for Children: Protecting America's FutureMay 30, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 101-1132(104 pgs.)
Rural Health Care CrisisJune 2, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 101-1149(135 pgs.)
Uncompensated Health Care Costs for the UninsuredJuly 23, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 101-1222(106 pgs.)
Health Care Costs and Lack of Access to Health InsuranceApril 1991
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 102-84/pt. 1(268 pgs.)
Health Care Costs and Lack of Access to Health InsuranceJune 6, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 102-84/pt. 2(132 pgs.)
Health America: Affordable Health Care for All AmericansSept. 6, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 102-427(182 pgs.)
Comprehensive Reform of the Health Care SystemSept. 1991
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 102-462(218 pgs.)
Challenge of Providing Long-term Health CareMay 13, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 102-875(120 pgs.)
Effect of Health Care Costs on the EconomyMay 18, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.F 49:S. hrg. 102-881(73 pgs.)
Cutting Health Care Costs: Experiences in France, Germany, and JapanNov. 19, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.G 74/9:S. hrg 102-597(192 pgs.)
Pepper Commission Recommendations on Universal Health CareApril 6, 1990
Call Number: Y 4.L 11/4:S. hrg. 101-859(182 pgs.)
Healthamerica LegislationJune 1991
Call Number: Y 4.L 11/4:S. hrg. 102-322/pt. 1(90 pgs.)
Healthamerica LegislationJuly 1991
Call Number: Y 4.L 11/4:S. hrg. 102-322/pt. 2(265 pgs.)
Achieving Effective Cost Control in Comprehensive Health Care ReformDec. 16-17, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.L 11/4:S. hrg. 102-955(306 pgs.)
Hearing on Health Care ReformAp. 24, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.Sm 1/2:S. hrg. 102-690(84 pgs.)
Proposals to Extend Medicare Coverage to the Near-elderlyMarch 19, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-5(101 pgs.)
Access to Health InsuranceFeb. 25, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-6(159 pgs.)
Health Insurance Options: Health Insurance Costs of Large CorporationsMay 6, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-23(115 pgs.)
Long-term Strategies for Health CareApril 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-33(851 pgs.)
Health Insurance Options: Reform of Private Health InsuranceMay 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-34(377 pgs.)
Medicare Prescription Drug BenefitsJune 11, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-39(89 pgs.)
Medicare Payments to Physicians under the Resource-based Relative Value ScaleJune 25, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-41(235 pgs.)
Health Insurance Options: Health Insurance Status of the IndigentJune 27, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-46(83 pgs.)
Options for Health Insurance: Requirements for Health Care Cost ContainmentJuly 11, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-48(144 pgs.)
Health Insurance Options: Mandates on Health BenefitsJuly 29, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-53(149 pgs.)
Medicare Fraud, Waste, and AbuseJune 13, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-62(115 pgs.)
Retiree Health Benefits, Including Proposals to Extend Medicare to Cover EarlyRetirees at Age 60Nov. 5, 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-66(133 pgs.)
Comprehensive Health Insurance Legislation, including H.R. 3205, the "Health Insurance Coverage and Cost Containment Act of 1991" Oct. 1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-79(889 pgs.)
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-80(800 pgs.)
Private Health Insurance Reform LegislationMarch 12, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-88(262 pgs.)
President's Proposals on Health Care Reform and the Fiscal Year 1993 Health and Human Services BudgetMarch 1992
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-89(709 pgs.)
Options for Health Insurance: Administrative Simplification of Health CareApril 2, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:102-90(137 pgs.)
Health Care Resource BookApril 2, 1992
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:WMCP 102-8(127 pgs.)
Health Care Coverage and Costs: Major Legislative Proposals1991
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:WMCP 102-21(91 pgs.)
Report on H.R. 5502, Health Care Cost Containment and Reform Act of 19921992
Call Number: Y 4.W 36:WMCP 102-47(86 pgs.)
Jim Gravois
Microforms and Documents Department
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