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	Sources Prepared By Ellen Montz, MPA, Office of Health Reform, Department of Health and Human Services Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Director of Policy Analysis, Office of Health Reform, Department of Health and Human Services Data Analysis provided by the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ¹ National Cancer Institute. Cancer Query System: Cancer Prevalence Database. http://srab.cancer.gov/prevalence/canques.html. ² Doty MM, Edwards JN, Holgren AL. Seeing red: Americans driven into debt by medical bills. The Commonwealth Fund, August 2008. ³ National Cancer Institute. Cancer Query System: Cancer Prevalence Database. http://srab.cancer.gov/prevalence/canques.html. ⁴ National Cancer Institute. Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Cancer Statistics Review. http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2006/results_merged/sect_02_all_sites.pdf. ⁵ National Cancer Institute. Cancer Query System: Cancer Prevalence Database. http://srab.cancer.gov/prevalence/canques.html. ⁶ National Cancer Institute. Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Cancer Statistics Review. http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2006/results_merged/sect_02_all_sites.pdf. ⁷ Soni A.“The Five Most Costly Conditions, 2000 and 2004: Estimates for the U.S.Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population.” Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.2007. ⁸ USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health. National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer. November 2006. http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7591.pdf ⁹ USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health. National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer. November 2006. http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7591.pdf ¹⁰ High out-of-pocket costs are defined as costs that surpass the allowable upper limit in the current House bill, America’s Affordable Choices Act of 2009. ¹¹ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002-2006. ¹² Banthin JS and Bernard DM.“Changes in financial burdens for health care: National estimates for the population younger than 65 years, 1996 to 2003.” JAMA 2006; 296: 2712-19. ¹³ USA Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health. National survey of households affected by cancer, August 1 – September 14, 2006 (#7591). ¹⁴ America’s Health Insurance Plans. Individual Health Insurance 2006-2007: A Comprehensive Survey of Premiums, Availability, and Benefits, December 2007 ¹⁵ USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health. National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer. November 2006. ¹⁶ Murphy, Tom. “Patients struggle with lifetime health insurance benefit caps,” Los Angeles Times, July 2008. ¹⁷ Kaiser State Health Facts. http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparetable.jsp?ind=353&cat=7. ¹⁸ USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health. National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer. November 2006. ¹⁹ Memorandum to Members and Staff of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Supplemental Information Regarding the Individual Health Insurance Market. June 16, 2009. http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090616/rescission_supplemental.pdf ²⁰ Testimony of Robin Beaton. House Energy and Commerce Committee. June 11, 2009. ²¹ Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefit Survey, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009). ²² Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. ²³ USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health. National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer. November 2006. http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7591.pdf ²⁴ USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health. National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer. November 2006. http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7591.pdf ²⁵ “Spending to Survive: Cancer Patients Confront Holes in the Health Insurance System.” (2009). The Kaiser Family Foundation and The American Cancer Society. ²⁶ Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007. ²⁷ National Commission on Prevention Priorities. Preventive Care: A National Profile on Use, Disparities, and Health Benefits. Partnership for Prevention, August 2007. ²⁸ “Spending to Survive: Cancer Patients Confront Holes in the Health Insurance System.” (2009). The Kaiser Family Foundation and The American Cancer Society.