Economics & Inequality Retirement Security Education Health Care Homeland Security Election Reform Media & Politics International Affairs TCF Project Sites: Donate to TCF Join our Listserv  Taking Note Home About TCF News Room Join our Listserv A New Deal for Health: How to Cover Everyone and Get Medical Costs under Control     Email    Printer-Friendly Leif Wellington Haase, Century Foundation Press, 6/1/2005 Download in PDF format Table of Contents (pdf) U.S. spending on health care has grown from $246 billion in 1980 to $1.7 trillion today. At the same time, the number of uninsured Americans has increased by 5 million over the past decade. These factors, along with concern over the quality of care, have brought the need for health care reform back into the headlines. A New Deal for Health offers a plan for these much-needed reforms, one that focuses on creating large risk pools while still allowing consumer choice and maintaining high quality care. Leif Wellington Haase is a program officer and health care fellow at The Century Foundation. Haase holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton University. He has served as the staff director of The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform and was the coauthor of its final report, Medicare Tomorrow (2001). He also is the author of The Basics: Medicare Reform (rev. ed.), Breathing Easier? Report of The Century Foundation Working Group on Bioterrorism Preparedness (2005), and articles on prescription drugs and bioterrorism preparedness. More... Read a summary and description of the plan here. View the press release here (PDF). Edition: Online/ Paper    ISBN: 0870784943    Pages: 71    Price: $4.95 Copyright 2010 The Century Foundation. Privacy Policy NY Office: 41 East 70th Street—New York, New York—10021—Phone:212-535-4441—212-879-9197 DC Office: 1333 H Street, NW—10th Floor— Washington, D.C. 20005— Phone: 202-387-0400— Fax: 202-483-9430