Costs

Starting in 1996 and each year since, HSC researchers have tracked changes in health insurance premiums and underlying health costs at the national level, analyzing the changes and exploring the implications for consumers. HSC researchers also draw on secondary data and the insights of Wall Street analysts and other experts to conduct these analyses.

Title	Date	Document Info
Tracking Health Care Costs	September 2001
The Health Care Cost-Coverage ConundrumPaul B. Ginsburg, Len M. Nichols	Fall 2003	Annual Essay 2002-03
Efficiency and Quality: The Role of Controlling Health Care Cost Growth in Health Care ReformPaul B. Ginsburg	June 3, 2009	Commentary
Controlling Health Care CostsPaul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 14, 2004	Commentary
A Decade of Tracking Health System ChangePaul B. Ginsburg, Cara S. Lesser	March 2006	Commentary No. 2
Working at Cross Purposes: Health Care Expansions May Jumpstart Local Economies but Fuel Nation's Fiscal WoesChapin White, Paul B. Ginsburg	August 2011	Commentary No. 5
Wall Street Analysts Predict Several Years of Higher Health Plan Premiums	June 10, 1999	Conference Executive Summary
Wall Street Analysts Bullish on Managed Care, Bearish on Revolution Health Care Information Technology	June 22, 2000	Conference Executive Summary
HSC Conference Focusing on the Nation's Health Care System Finds It Is in Tremendous Turmoil	November 19, 1999	Conference Executive Summary
Update on the Nation's Health Care System:	November 16, 1999	Conference Transcript
11th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference	June 21, 2006	Conference Transcript
Fourth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington:	June 9, 1999	Conference Transcript
Fifth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington:	June 21, 2000	Conference Transcript
Patient Cost Sharing: Promises and Pitfalls	Dec. 3, 2003	Conference Transcript
Trends in Managed Care Coverage in Small Firms	Winter 1998	Data Bulletin No. 09
How Widespread Is Managed Competition?Stephen H. Long, M. Susan Marquis	Summer 1998	Data Bulletin No. 12
Despite Fears, Costs Rise Only Modestly in 1998	Fall 1998	Data Bulletin No. 13
Trends in the Cost of Employer-Sponsored CoverageM. Susan Marquis, Stephen H. Long	Fall 1998	Data Bulletin No. 14
Tracking Health Care Costs:	November 2000	Data Bulletin No. 20
Tracking Health Care Costs:Bradley C. Strunk, Paul B. Ginsburg, Jon R. Gabel	September 2001	Data Bulletin No. 21 - Revised