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Want to know the kind of content you get with a MCOL paid membership? Check out this recent MCOL Monthly e-magazine for paid members, with 26 pages of valuable articles, data, insights, trends and more.

Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey, Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2009

Effects of Childhood Obesity On Hospital Care And Costs, 1999-2005, Health Affairs Web Exclusive, July 9, 2009

Healthcare 2015 and U.S. Health Plans, IBM, 2009

How Kaiser Permanente Went Paperless, Business Week, April 7, 2009

Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning: How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care, Health Affairs, March/April 2009

Americans Speak on Health Reform: Report on Health Care Community Discussions, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, March 2009

More than Half of Americans Say Family Skimped on Medical Care Because of Cost in Past Year, Kaiser Family Foundation, February 25, 2009

Health Information Technology: Key Lever in Health System Transformation, Commonwealth Fund, January 26, 2009

The Federal Role in Promoting Health Information Technology, The Commonwealth Fund, January 26, 2009

Maintaining Health Insurance During a Recession: Likely COBRA eligibility, The Commonwealth Fund, January 2009

More Nonelderly Americans Face Problems Affording Prescription Drugs, Center for Studying Health System Change, January 2009

Challenges of Providing Health Coverage for Children and Parents in a Recession: A 50 State Update, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2009

California Employer Health Benefits Survey, California HealthCare Foundation, December 2008

Key Issues Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals, The Congressional Budget Office, December 2008

U.S. Pharmaceutical Policy In A Global Marketplace, Health Affairs, December 16, 2008

Prescription Drug Spending Trends In The United States: Looking Beyond The Turning Point, Health Affairs, December 16, 2008

The Physicians’ Perspective: Medical Practice in 2008, November 2008

Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Payment System Reform, The Commonwealth Fund, November 3, 2008

Medical Tourism: Consumers in Search of Value, Deloitte, 2008

High and rising health care costs: Demystifying U.S. health care spending, By Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., President, Center for Studying Health System Change, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, October 2008

2008 Employer Health Benefits Annual Survey, Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2008

Employers Attack Health Care Costs -- and Find Success: New cost saving techniques help some employers hold down increases significantly, Kiplinger Forecast, September 2008

Medicare Advantage Fact Sheet, Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2008

Home Sweet Home: Can A New Care Model Save Family Medicine?, Journal of AHIMA, August 2008

The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Costs and Consequences in 2007, Kaiser Family Foundation, August 1, 2008

Covering the Uninsured In 2008: Current Costs, Sources Of Payment, And Incremental Costs, Health Affairs Web Exclusive, August 19, 2008

Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance, Commonwealth Fund, August 2008

Public Views on U.S. Health System Organization: A Call for New Directions, Commonwealth Fund, August 2008

Retail Clinics: Facts, Trends and Implications, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, July 2008

America’s Top Hospitals, U.S. News & World Report, July 2008

New Pressures, New Opportunities: Finance Executives on Managing Through Uncertain Times, CFO Research Services in collaboration with American Express, June 2008

Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2009, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, June 2008

America's Health Care Crisis: Cities on the Front Lines (PDF), Families USA, June 2008

How Many Are Underinsured? Trends Among U.S. Adults, 2003 and 2007, Commonwealth Fund, June 2008

Culture Change in Nursing Homes: How Far Have We Come? Findings from The Commonwealth Fund 2007 National Survey of Nursing Homes

2008 Milliman Medical Index: 2008 Annual Medical Cost for Family of Four at $15,609, May 2008

Health Insurance Mandates in the States 2008, Council for Affordable Health Insurance, 2008

2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, part of Deloitte LLP, 2008

Medicare Prescription Drug Plans in 2008 and Key Changes Since 2006: Summary of Findings, Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2008

Medical Cost Reference Guide 2008, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Getting the Most for Every Dollar: Tools and Strategies for Expense Management at Mid-Size Companies, American Express, March 2008

Consumers’ Views of Health Care, Reform Options and Prospects for Change, Mayo Clinic, March 2008

Rx Watchdog Report: Trends in Manufacturer Prices of Brand Name Prescription Drugs Used by Medicare Beneficiaries 2002 to 2007, AARP Public Policy Institute, March 2008

Health Spending Projections Through 2017: The Baby-Boom Generation Is Coming To Medicare, Health Affairs, February 26, 2008

2008 HIMSS CEO Leadership Survey, February 25, 2008

Medicaid Health Plan Chart Book 2008

The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits: Will Employers Reach a Tipping Point?, Employee Benefit Research Institute, February 2008

How Non-Group Health Coverage Varies with Income, Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2008

State of the States: Rising to the Challenge, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, January 2008

2008 Health Care Cost Survey, Towers Perrin, January 2008

Waits To See An Emergency Department Physician: U.S. Trends And Predictors, 1997-2004, Health Affairs, January 2008

Major Trends Affecting Hospital Payment, By Martin J. D’Cruz & Terri L. Welter, HFM, January 2008

Too Great A Burden: America's Families at Risk, Families USA, December 2007

2007 California Employer Health Benefit Survey Report, California Health Care Foundation, December 2007

The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, 2007

Toward a Rational, Value-Based Drug Benefit for Medicare, Health Affairs, December 3, 2007

2007 America’s Health Rankings(TM) Show a Decline in the Overall Health of the Nation, United Health Foundation, November 5, 2007

Markets and Medical Care: The United States, 1993-2005, By Joseph White, The Milbank Quarterly, October 2007

Health Care Cost and Access Challenges Persist: Initial Findings From HSC's 2007 Site Visits, By Debra A. Draper and Paul B. Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health System Change Issue Brief No. 114, October 2007

Trends in Health Care Costs and Spending, Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2007

2008 Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey, September 2007

Ford Sustainability Report 2006/2007

Census Data on Growing Number of Uninsured Make Clear: National Health Care Strategy Is Needed, Commonwealth Fund, August 28, 2007

Household Income Rises, Poverty Rate Declines, Number of Uninsured Up, U.S. Census Bureau News, August 28, 2007

F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2007, Trust for America's Health, August 2007

Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Progress Report: Findings From A 2006 National Survey Of Seniors, Health Affairs, August 21, 2007

Health Care Costs - A Primer - Key Information on Health Care Costs and Their Impact, Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2007

Reconstructing Hospital Pricing Systems: A Call to Action for Hospital Financial Leaders – A Report from the PATIENT FRIENDLY BILLING Project, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Summer 2007