Hospital Closings:  Causes, Consequences, and Responses, Boston Occupier, op.ed., 20 February 2012

Paying New York State Hospitals More Fairly for Their Uninsured Patients, 31 August 2011, 168 pages.

MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL SPENDING REACHED 55.4 % PER PERSON ABOVE THE U.S. AVERAGE IN 2007: Most of Excess Is Unjustified, and State?s Health Reform Law Is Negligible Factor, 16 March 2010, 211 pages.

"St. Vincent's Hospital Must Be Stabilized," op-ed, The Villager, 10 March 2010

This Year's $72 Billion in Health Care Spending in Massachusetts Is Enough to Finance the Care that Works, Testimony before the Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System, 27 February 2009, 25 pages.

The Health Reform Program designs practical solutions to health care problems--solutions that address the needs of all parties.

The program's work on US health reform (USHR page) addresses:

• patients' inability to afford needed prescription drugs;
• the disproportionate closing of hospitals in minority and lower-income communities; and
• methods of winning affordable health care for all.

The program's Access and Affordability Monitoring Project (AAMP) tackles coverage, cost, and caregiver survival problems in Massachusetts.

Recent releases include:

• Covering People, Paying Caregivers, and Shaping Affordable Care for All, 15 October 2008
• Rapid Increases in Medicaid and Medicare Account for Most of the Rise in Health Insurance Coverage, 1987 to 2007 - Looking Beyond the Small Year-to-year Fluctuations, 26 August 2008
• Massachusetts Health Spending Soars to $62.1 Billion in 2006--Spending Is World's Highest--33% Above U.S.A. Average, An Unprecedented Excess, 28 June 2006, 86 pages with 40 exhibits. Please see AAMP page.
• Health Care for All in Massachusetts Requires Cost Control, March 2006, 74 pages. Please see AAMP page.
• $1 Billion a Week is Enough to Finance Health Care for All in Massachusetts, July 2005. Please see AAMP page.
• Health Costs Absorb One-Quarter of Economic Growth, 2000--2005, February 2005. See USHR page, Section C.
• Making Today's Drugs Affordable for All While Boosting Breakthrough Research, 29 October 2004. Please see USHR page, Section A, Papers.
• US Rx Prices 81% Above Foreign Prices, 28 October 2004. Please see USHR page, Section A, Data Briefs.
• Do Drug Makers Lose Money on Canadian Imports? April 2004 and highlights.

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These reports represent the views of the authors and do not represent the view of Boston University.