Research & Reports
Growth of provider payments falls well short of health plan rate hikes;Private insurers spent $716 billion on profits, overhead from 2000 to 2008. Continue reading
Proposed legislation would give 50 states and DC $849 billion in new federal funding for health coverage with minimal match; State-by- state charts break down flow of much-needed funds. Continue reading
Big Insurers Break Profit Records By Shedding Members, Cutting Share of Premiums Spent on Medical Care. Continue reading
Please see this report outlining the total compensation packages of the CEOs of the ten of the largest health insurance companies: Aetna, Amerigroup, Centene, CIGNA, Coventry, Health Net, Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Universal American Group, and WellPoint. View the full report: … Continue reading
Health care costs have surged in recent years, outpacing the growth in Americans’ income. Commercial health insurance premiums have risen four times faster than wages and have more than doubled in the last nine years.1 Shrinking competition among health insurance … Continue reading
Report Highlights Need for Racial Justice in Health Care Reform; Health Care for America Now Details Health Disparities and Emphasizes Opportunity for Equality in Legislation This national report shows how communities of color are adversely affected by our nation’s broken … Continue reading
Skyrocketing premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs are battering family budgets, eroding U.S. competitiveness in the global economy and threatening the American standard of living, once the envy of the world. As President Barack Obama and his economic advisers have repeatedly … Continue reading
Private Insurers Pledge to Behave Under Tighter U.S. Rules, But Private Companies Have Outmaneuvered Regulators for Decades. Continue reading