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http://www.thepolicycenter.org/

Tom Garvey, MHA, at the annual meeting of  "The Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved," September, 2005.  [View ]

http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp180

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The first five of the following links are to articles or letters previously published in journals devoted to healthcare policy.  These  articles illustrate
  • the need to address a national healthcare policy,
  • the economic need for universal enrollment,
  • issues surrounding employment-linked health insurance,
  • the roles of both re-insurance and universal enrollment in protecting both insurers and their clients, and
  • an article that includes a graph from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) illustrating the outlandish relative cost of the United States' healthcare system.
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From the OECD.  A single table outlining the essential policies of the Swiss healthcare system.
Similar policies are shared by all multi-payer universal enrollment healthcare systems.
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First published on-line in 2005.  This may have been the article that started discussion about the concept of a public plan option in the U.S.
 
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What About Ireland?
A history of Ireland's transition from a single-payer system to a multi-payer universal enrollment healthcare system including it's instructive experience with Re-insurance.

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Audio of Jacob Hacker, PhD

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/8/736?query=TOC

Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D.
NEJM. Volume 357:733-735 .  August 23, 2007.   Number 8

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Economic Policy Institute Briefing paper:
http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp180/bp180.pdf