Balancing Health Needs with Resources
An NCSL cost containment series, 2002-2005
Reposted: October 2008
A recent Gallup Poll asked respondents to choose which healthcare issue was the most urgent problem facing our country. Overwhelmingly, the cost of care and barriers to the access of that care were their response.
Each year, state legislators and staff grapple with the seemingly endless increases in the cost of health care and health services. Newspapers, magazines and broadcast news are filled with reports on "Health coverage is unaffordable," "Spiraling Health Inflation Challenges Budgets" and "Health Program Cuts Loom".
NCSL has compiled several timely reports and materials that not only identify problems, but also present some solutions and alternatives.
The linked NCSL web pages on the right lead to specific documents you may read or download. They also include outside experts and individual state examples.
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 In particular, see the Balancing Health Needs with Resources series of eight papers, written by national experts over the past four years. Copies are free to Legislators and staff, and available for purchase by others.
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