Cost is clearly a major issue for most laid-off workers, says Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
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Health-insurance premiums in the Bay State have risen significantly faster than the national average, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health foundation.
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Countries such as Denmark provide incentives for doctors to communicate electronically reported in a Commonwealth Fund report entitled Issues in International Health Policy.
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"It's a transitional time in people's lives, " said Sara Collins, an economist and assistant vice president for the Program on the Future of Health Insurance at the Commonwealth Fund.
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The Commonwealth Fund reports that nearly half of those with health problems reported they were either denied insurance, charged rates they could not afford, or had their illness excluded from coverage.
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Rubin is one of 250, 000 people with disabling conditions such as MS, cancer or schizophrenia who are stuck in this waiting period without insurance, according to an estimate from the Commonwealth Fund.
The Commonwealth Fund, in a study authored by David Squires, compared the U.S. to other OECD countries to see whether we spend more per medical incident than our worldwide colleagues.
Yet a new survey, conducted by Robert Blendon at the Harvard University School of Public Health, and the New York-based Commonwealth Fund, suggests that the British are much less unhappy with their health service than Americans, and see little reason to redesign their health-care system.
The chancellor said he was marking the Queen's Golden Jubilee by setting up a Commonwealth Education Fund to help educate children in other countries.
Britain has announced plans for a multi-million-dollar fund to ensure every child in the Commonwealth countries receives a basic education.
Fitzsimmons says his fund recently has focused on financial services companies like Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank and National Australia Bank in an effort to benefit from the overall prosperity of the economy, which is expected to grow 4.8% this year.
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