Thursday, June 12, 2003

Covering the Uninsured: How Much Would It Cost?
This page at the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured indexs a number of documents related to a new policy briefing, "...with Health Affairs releasing a study on how much it would cost in additional medical care if America's uninsured were provided coverage. The study is part of the Commission's Cost of Not Covering the Uninsured project." See, especially, the news release, the project highlights, statistical appendix and the Health Affairs article, Covering the Uninsured: How Much Would It Cost?. All documents are in Adobe Acrobat format.  
  

Mental health system faulted
Story in the Syracuse Post-Standard - "A top adviser to President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. mental health system is a "shambles" in desperate need of an overhaul. Michael F. Hogan, chairman of a presidential commission looking at ways to fix the system, said people who need mental health services face a bewildering array of fragmented programs that are difficult to get."