This feature highlights HCFO grantees that have recently appeared in the news. This month's featured grantees appear in articles about HMO enrollment declines and the decline of employer-based health insurance.

October 2006

Katherine Swartz, Ph.D., professor of health policy and economics at the Harvard School of Public Health, had an opinion piece featured in the Boston Globe on September 12, 2006. In the article, Swartz notes that "many of this year's college graduates are discovering that their health insurance coverage - whether their own college policy or coverage under their parents' policy - has just ended." Swartz states that "bringing young adults into the individual and small-group insurance markets is essential if we want to keep a private health insurance system."  

Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center, School of Public Health and Health Services, was quoted in a September 13, 2006 article distributed by United Press International that examined potential changes to Medicaid benefits. The article says. "States have been implementing new policies to make it easier to predict what Medicaid costs will be." Rosenbaum cautions, "Cost management tools that may be appropriate for a middle class employed population must be approached with extreme care in the case of Medicaid-enrolled children and adults."

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