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- Ergonomics in the Workplace: Is It Time for an OSHA Standard?
- This report debates implementing an OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) standard for ergonomics. This standard would be motivated by the fact that one third of state employer's costs are related to improper ergonomic design causing illness. The report details that standards suggested in the past have been rejected by Congress.
- Long-Term Care: What Direction for Public Policy?
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- Environmental Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors: What Are the Human Health Risks?
- This report discusses the human health risks, specifically from endocrine disruptors that are chemical compounds in drugs, food, consumer products, or the ambient environment that can interfere with internal biological processes of animals that normally are regulated by their hormones.
- Health Insurance: Federal Data Sources for Analyses of the Uninsured
- Given the various reasons individuals lack health insurance coverage, analysis of the effectiveness of a proposal to reduce the number of uninsured (such as those discussed above) requires examining characteristics of individuals with and without health insurance coverage. Numerous sources of data have emerged over time that support estimates of the uninsured. However, each data source differs in how it collects information from individuals, as well as the amount of information it collects related to health insurance status. This report outlines the major advantages and limitations of four federally administered surveys — in providing estimates of the uninsured population.
- Major Provisions of the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002, H.R. 4954, as Passed by the House
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- Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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- Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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- Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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- Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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- Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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- Flexible Spending Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts: A Comparison
- This report is a comparison flexible spending accounts and medical savings accounts.
- Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA
- This report provides information about Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA. This report also provides background information on COBRA, on the COBRA population, and on legislation offering COBRA. Some believe that COBRA went too far in requiring employees to provide coverage.
- Military Health Care: The Issue of "Promised" Benefits
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- Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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- Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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- Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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- Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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- Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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- Medicare+Choice Payments
- This report discusses the M+C program that established new rules for beneficiary and plan participation. This report focuses on M+C payments.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts: A Comparison
- This report compares FSAs and MSAs. It begins by describing FSAs, the basis for their tax treatment, and data on their use. It then describes the MSA demonstration authorized by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the basis for their tax treatment, and data on their use. The report concludes with a brief discussion of current legislation. In general, it discusses particular bills only when they are considered by committee or on the floor.
- Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA
- This report provides information about Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA. This report also provides background information on COBRA, on the COBRA population, and on legislation offering COBRA. Some believe that COBRA went too far in requiring employees to provide coverage.
- Bioterrorism: Summary of a CRS/National Health Policy Forum Seminar on Federal, State, and Local Public Health Preparedness
- The September 11th attack and subsequent intentional release of anthrax spores via the U.S. postal system have focused policymakers’ attention on the preparedness and response capability of the nation’s public health system. The anthrax attacks put a tremendous strain on the U. S. public health infrastructure, an infrastructure that many experts argue has been weakened by years of neglect and under-funding. To better understand the preparedness gaps that exist, as well as the disparate functions and agencies that define public health in this country, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), in conjunction with George Washington University’s National Health Policy Forum (NHPF), convened a seminar on October 26, 2001, entitled, The U.S. Health Care System: Are State and Local Officials Prepared for Bioterrorism? How Should the Federal Government Assist?
- Bioterrorism: Legislation to Improve Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity
- This report shows that while lawmakers work towards final passage of new authorizing legislation, Congress has appropriated more than $3 billion to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase bioterrorism preparedness at the federal, state, and local levels. HHS anti-bioterrorism funding was included in the FY2002 Labor-HHSEducation appropriations bill and in the $20 billion emergency spending package that was attached to the FY2002 Defense appropriations bill. Until the new authorizing legislation is enacted, HHS is dispersing the funds according to existing authorities and the broad parameters set out in the appropriations bills.
- Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (P.L. 107-188): Provisions and Changes to Preexisting Law
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- Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Premiums: Fact Sheet
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- Medicaid Upper Payment Limits and Intergovernmental Transfers: Current Issues and Recent Regulatory and Legistlative Action
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- President Bush's Proposed Medicare-Endorsed Drug Discount Card Initiative: Status and Issues
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- President Bush's Proposed Medicare-Endorsed Drug Discount Card Initiative: Status and Issues
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- Medicare: Major Prescription Drug Provisions of Selected Bills
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- Medicare: Major Prescription Drug Provisions of Selected Bills
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- Medicare: Major Prescription Drug Provisions of Selected Bills
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- Managed Care and State External Review Statutes
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- Patient Protection and Managed Care: Legislation in the 107th Congress
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- Patient Protection and Managed Care: Legislation in the 107th Congress
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- Patient Protection and Managed Care: Legislation in the 107th Congress
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- Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2001
- An estimated 14.6% of the U.S. populations lacked health insurance coverage in 2001, up from 14% in 2000. When examined by state, estimates of the percent uninsured ranged from a low of 7.5% in Iowa to a high of 23.5% in Texas. Generally, states in the Midwest and New England have lower rates of uninsured, while states in the Southwestern and Southern portion of the nation have higher shares of their populations without coverage.
- Bioterrorism: Legislation to Improve Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity
- This report shows that while lawmakers work towards final passage of new authorizing legislation, Congress has appropriated more than $3 billion to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase bioterrorism preparedness at the federal, state, and local levels. HHS anti-bioterrorism funding was included in the FY2002 Labor-HHSEducation appropriations bill and in the $20 billion emergency spending package that was attached to the FY2002 Defense appropriations bill. Until the new authorizing legislation is enacted, HHS is dispersing the funds according to existing authorities and the broad parameters set out in the appropriations bills.
- Bioterrorism: Legislation to Improve Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity
- While lawmakers work towards final passage of new authorizing legislation, Congress has appropriated $3 billion to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY2002 to increase bio-terrorism preparedness at the federal, state, and local levels. HHS anti bio-terrorism funding was included in theFY2002Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill (P.L. 107-116, H.R. 3061) and in the $20 billion emergency spending package (P.L. 107- 117, H.R. 3338). HHS is dispersing the funds according to existing authorities and the broad spending parameters set out in the appropriations bills.
- Patient Protection and Managed Care
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- Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured Populations in 2001
- The number of Americans without health insurance rose in 2001 to 41.2 million Americans - an increase of 1.4 million people from 2000. This reverses a two-year trend of falling numbers of uninsured. This report examines the characteristics of both the insured and the uninsured populations in the United States.
- Medicaid: Eligibility for the Aged and Disabled
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- Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured Populations in 2000
- Nearly one out of seven Americans were without health insurance for all of 2000. This was the second consecutive annual decrease in the percentage of uninsured people. The largest gain in health insurance coverage was in the employment-based coverage. This report examines the characteristics of both the insured and the uninsured populations in the United States.
- Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2000
- An estimated 14% of the U.S. populations lacked health insurance coverage in 2000, down from 14.3% in 1999. When examined by state, estimates of the percent uninsured ranged from a low of 5.9% in Rhode Island to a high of 23.8% in New Mexico. Generally, states in the Midwest and New England have lower rates of uninsured, while states in the Southwestern portion of the nation have higher shares of their populations without coverage.