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	Sources Prepared by: Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Director of Policy Analysis, HHS Office of Health Reform Ellen Montz, MPA, HHS Office of Health Reform Data analysis provided by Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Report production by the HHS Web Communications and New Media Division. ¹ Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008 Employer Health Benefits Survey. ² Business Roundtable. Health Care Reform: The Perils of Inaction and the Promise of Effective Action. http://www.businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/BRT_Hewitt_HC%20Reform%20Report_Sept2009_FinalONLINE.pdf ³ P.R. Orszag, Growth in Health Care Costs: Statement Before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, Jan 31 2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8948 ⁴ Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefit Survey, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). ⁵ Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefit Survey, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). ⁶ For additional info on Small Businesses and Health Reform, please see Council of Economic Advisers. The Economic Effects of Health Care Reform on Small Businesses and Their Employees. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Health-Care-Reform-and-Small-Businesses. July 25, 2009. ⁷ Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefit Survey, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). ⁸ Holve E, Brodie M, Levitt L. Small business executives and health insurance: Findings from a national survey of very small firms. Managed Care Interface. 2003;16(9):19–24. ⁹ Council of Economic Advisers. The Economic Effects of Health Care Reform on Small Businesses and Their Employees. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Health-Care-Reform-and-Small-Businesses. July 25, 2009. ¹⁰ Conwell, Leslie J. “The Role of Health Insurance Brokers: Providing Small Employers with a Helping Hand.” Health System Change Issue Brief No. 57, October 2002. ¹¹ Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 2008. Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals. Washington, DC (December). ¹² U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Survey, March 2008. ¹³ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2006. ¹⁴ Kaiser Family Foundation, The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008). ¹⁵ Institute of Medicine, America’s Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care. (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, February 2009). ¹⁶ Kaiser Family Foundation, The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008). ¹⁷ Rhoades JA, Cohen SB. The Long-Term Uninsured in America, 2004–2007: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Statistical Brief #258. August 2009. ¹⁸ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2006-2007. ¹⁹ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2006-2007. ²⁰ U.S. Census Bureau. Current Population Survey, March 2008. ²¹ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2006-2007. ²² M. Doty, S. Collins, J. Nicholson, and S. Rustgi. Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market is Not a Viable Option for Most US Families. (The Commonwealth Fund, July 2009). ²³ Kaiser State Health Facts. http://statehealthfacts.org/comparetable.jsp?ind=353&cat=7 ²⁴ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2006-2007.