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Medicaid dismayed by the escalation of households and the growing number of Americans without health insurance, several countries are considering a bold new efforts to keep the cost of health. Many countries have shown that they cannnot afford to expand access to health care, unless costs are under control, at the same time.

Vermont and Minnesota have already decided to set targets for all medical expenses. Colorado and Vermont allows studies of systems, funnels, health professionals at all payments through a single agency for a limited number of insurers competitors. California is now a similar approach. Iowa studied a combination of both expenditure targets and regulated competition.

Dir Roy Romer of Colorado said in a telephone interview that he wanted to be the minimum coverage Public Health stressed that “preventive care to cut costs rather than overall spending on medicine heroic” work sick people desperate to keep alive.

Minnesota seeks to limit the spread of costly new technologies in medicine.

Health policy experts hope that States may be regarded as laboratories for a possible national programme to address problems of cost and access. “Not that each State alone, it is likely that solve problems,” said David W. Helms, chairman of the Alpha Center, a nonprofit health policy group in Washington, “but we can learn from these experiences State. “Mr. Helms is a national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, plans to spend $ 25.5 million for the promotion of public health funding experimentation.

The Foundation announced yesterday that using one third of the money for health policy planning in a dozen countries: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota , Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. The experts from the RAND Corporation, Urban Development Institute and the National Governors’ Association will contribute to the study of 12 countries of law and the economic impact of experiences.

Chris Petersen, Senior Counsel with the Law on Health Insurance Association of America, an insurer trade group, said the Association of experiences care at the national level. But he said that the group against the single payer concept, which allows an insurance company traditional business. Other public programs, a number of insurers competitors should be tested in the market, without state subsidies, he said, because the subsidies can not last forever.

Nancy Barrand, Robert Wood Johnson project officer, said the States in circumstances later, require a permit from Congress and federal Medicare and Medicaid officials for experiments. Some may request a waiver for the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, restricts the jurisdiction of the state health insurance.

Dir David Walters of Oklahoma, said he hoped that waivers for Medicaid and a federal tax exemption for the state plan latent individual and family health accounts are similar IRA savings accounts. The state would use the interest on accounts payable, expanding access to health care, he added.

The Bush administration has made a request of Oregon for a waiver of Medicaid is the state allowed to set priorities in the payment of health care. Ms. Barrand said the new state would be qualified support programs in Washington, showing that “in fact reach a wider access and better control over costs of the proceedings.” The Foundation funds research, he said, that propose to require that all insurers for loading standardised rates could, for example, the prediction of the employer, pay more and pay less.

New York, plans to use their grant for work Johnson to a national compensation body to deal with all health claims. It is also with new parameters of collective strategy for the payment of doctors and opportunities for improving access to health care. Ronald Rouse, Director-in-Office of Planning at the Department of State Health, said that a single system of paying doctors, mastery of “micro-management, the physician decision-making”, that many doctors hate. All projects must New York legislative authorization.