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Research

This is a collection of useful research sources for those interested in writing policy on health care. If you are having trouble accessing or finding any of the research resources listed below, or would like to suggest an addition, please e-mail me at sjohn@roosveltinstitute.org.

 Organizations

Campaign for America's Future

Center for American Progress

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Center for Community Change

Health Care for America Now

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Urban Institute

Scholarly Databases

Families USA

HIV Medicine Assocation

JSTOR

Kaiser Family Foundation

Lexis-Nexis

Statistical Databases

Center for Disease Control

World Health Organization

Blogs

Health Care for America Now

NPR Health Blog

Prescriptions: Making sense of the health care debate

Roosevelt Institute Health Care Blog

ThinkProgress

Relevant Articles

A Clinic Fills a Need but Faces a Failure

Democrats Could Learn from LBJ's Medicare Push

How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality

Taking Profits Out of Medical Care Decisions

What Health Reform Means for Young Americans

Reports

Health Care Reform: Progressive Messaging and Data by Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation

Health Care Spending and Use of Information Technology in OECD Countries by Gerard Anderson, Bianca Frogner, Roger Johns, and Uwe Reinhardt

Making Medicare Sustaiable by Len Nichols and Robert Berenson

The Obama Administration's Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope vs. Reality by T. Marmor, Jonathan Oberlander, and J. White

The Public Insurance Option in National Health Reform by Jacob Hacker

Rational and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook by H.L. Mead, Cart-wright-Smith, K. Jones, C. Ramos, K. Woodss, B. Siegel

 

Relevant Reading

Best Care Anywhere by Phillip Longman

Critical: What Can We Do About the Health-Care Crisis by Tom Daschle

Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform by Howard Dean with Igor Volsky, Faiz Shakir

Sick by Jonathan Cohn