Issue Briefs

ssue Briefs are designed to provide readers with relatively short, analytical research results that are policy relevant. Issue Briefs include the broader context for the research and lay out the range of related policy implications. The publications offer original HSC research results, summarize and make more accessible HSC research results that appear in peer-reviewed journals or report HSC conference proceedings. Most of the Issue Briefs are based on data from the CTS household, physician and employer surveys, CTS Site Visits or the Health Tracking Household and Physician Surveys.

Title	Date	Document Info
Physicians Pulling Back from Charity Care	August 2001	Issue Brief No. 42
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	September 2001	Issue Brief No. 43
Communities Play Key Role in Extending Public Health Insurance to Children	October 2001	Issue Brief No. 44
Consumers Face Higher Costs As Health Plans Seek to Control Drug Spending	November 2001	Issue Brief No. 45
Employer Health Insurance Premium Subsidies Unlikely to Enhance Coverage Significantly	December 2001	Issue Brief No. 46
Premium Subsidies for Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage	December 2001	Issue Brief No. 47
Physicians More Likely to Face Quality Incentives than Incentives That May Restrain Care	January 2002	Issue Brief No. 48
Triple Jeopardy: Low Income, Chronically Ill and Uninsured in America	February 2002	Issue Brief No. 49
Options for Expanding Health Insurance for People with Chronic Conditions	February 2002	Issue Brief No. 50
Prescription Drug Access: Not Just a Medicare Problem	April 2002	Issue Brief No. 51
Reversal of Fortune: Medicare+Choice Collides with Market Forces	May 2002	Issue Brief No. 52
Tax Credits and the Affordability of Individual Health Insurance	July 2002	Issue Brief No. 53
Wall Street Comes to Washington	July 2002	Issue Brief No. 54
Growing Physician Access Problems Complicate Medicare Payment Debate	September 2002	Issue Brief No. 55
Cutting Back But Not Cutting Out	October 2002	Issue Brief No. 56
The Role of Health Insurance Brokers	October 2002	Issue Brief No. 57
The Individual Health Insurance Market	December 2002	Issue Brief No. 58
SCHIP, Medicaid Expansions Lead to Shifts in Children's Coverage	December 2002	Issue Brief No. 59
Physicians and Care Management: More Acceptance than You Think	January 2003	Issue Brief No. 60
Seeking Health Care Information: Most Consumers Still on the Sidelines	March 2003	Issue Brief No. 61
Specialty Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers?	April 2003	Issue Brief No. 62
Health Care Cost and Access Problems Intensify	May 2003	Issue Brief No. 63
Unequal Access: African-American Medicare Beneficiaries and the Prescription Drug Gap	July 2003	Issue Brief No. 64
Has Bioterrorism Preparedness Improved Public Health?	July 2003	Issue Brief No. 65
The Health Care Safety Net: Money Matters but Savvy Leadership Counts	August 2003	Issue Brief No. 66
Wall Street Comes to Washington	August 2003	Issue Brief No. 67
Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis Meets Markets: Stress in Unexpected Places	September 2003	Issue Brief No. 68
Disease Management: A Leap of Faith to Lower-Cost,Higher-Quality Health Care	October 2003	Issue Brief No. 69
Insured Americans Drive Surge in Emergency Department Visits	October 2003	Issue Brief No. 70
Tiered-Provider Networks: Patients Face Cost-Choice Trade-Offs	November 2003	Issue Brief No. 71
Patient Cost Sharing: How Much is Too Much?	December 2003	Issue Brief No. 72
Prescription Drug Access Disparities Among Working-Age Americans	December 2003	Issue Brief No. 73
Getting Along or Going Along? Health Plan-Provider Contract Showdowns Subside	January 2004	Issue Brief No. 74
Patient Cost-Sharing Innovations: Promises and Pitfalls	January 2004	Issue Brief No. 75
For-Profit Conversions and Merger Trends Among Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Plans	January 2004	Issue Brief No. 76
Leapfrog Patient-Safety Standards are a Stretch for Most Hospitals	February 2004	Issue Brief No. 77
Emergency Department Diversions: Hospital and Community Strategies Alleviate the Crisis	March 2004	Issue Brief No. 78
Managed Care Redux: Health Plans Shift Responsibilities to Consumers	March 2004	Issue Brief No. 79
Federal Aid Strengthens Health Care Safety Net: The Strong Get Stronger	April 2004	Issue Brief No. 80
Preferred Provider Organizations and Medicare: Is There an Advantage?	April 2004	Issue Brief No. 81