http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/diabetes/index.html

Covers health insurance choices and costs for people with diabetes, and the issue of health care disparities. From Health Reform.gov and the Department of Health and Human Services.

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40900_20091110.pdf

Summarizes how major provisions of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) , passed by the House of Representatives on 11/7/09, would affect the Medicaid program and the Children's Health Insurance Program CHIP. . From the Congressional Research Service, posted by OpenCRS.org.

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40898_20091109.pdf

Examines the changes that would be made to the Medicare program by the health reform bill passed by the House of Representatives on 11/7/09. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by OpenCRS.org.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-237.pdf

Reports that 46% of parents who were owed child support in 2007 received the full amount they were owed. Nearly one-quarter (23.7%) received none of the support they were owed. Also reports that 25% of custodial parents had incomes below the poverty level. Covers the child support income that custodial parents reported receiving from noncustodial parents living elsewhere. Also covers other types of assistance such as health insurance and non-cash assistance. From the Census Bureau.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10691/hr3962SubsidiesRangelLtr.pdf

Another working document related to health reform legislation. This one discusses the subsidies that enrollees would receive for premiums and cost sharing and fees they would have to pay if they purchased a low cost plan from the proposed insurance exchanges. From the Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10688/hr3962Rangel.pdf

Estimates that enacting the proposed health care bill (HR 3962) would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $104 billion over the 2010-2019 period. From the Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/smallbusiness2/index.html

Discusses the way in which proposed health insurance exchanges would provide advantages for small businesses and their employees in purchase of health insurance. From Health Reform.gov

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10689/hr3962ClarifyMeasuresBaucusLtr.pdf

Discusses the measures used to analyze the effect on federal budgets and on federal spending for health care of current legislative proposals for health care reform. From the Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st267/stat267.pdf

Reports that the number of non-elderly individuals with private group (employer provided) health insurance rose from 135 million to 146 million but that the number of non-elderly individuals with private non-group health insurance fell from 9 million to 6.6 million between 1996 and 2007. . From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb81.pdf

Reports that the number of uninsured hospital stays during the ten year period of study increased by 31%, while the overall number of hospital stays increased only 13%. Also provides information about the cost and reasons for uninsured stays. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

http://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-01-08-00280.pdf

Provides information about appeals made by beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage health plans. Reports that MAOs make the vast majority of organization determinations in favor of beneficiaries but that fewer than 1 in 10 adverse determinations were appealed. From the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.