<p>The States Health Care Spending Project is a joint initiative of the Pew Center on the States and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It helps state and federal policy makers better understand how much states spend on health care, what is driving up spending, and how states can contain costs while improving health outcomes.</p> http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room.aspx The State Health Care Spending Project created an online database containing hundreds of practices found to be promising by state and federal Medicaid agencies. Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:18:56 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899447431&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=State Health Care Spending Project&WT.rss_a=Interactive Database: How States Fight Medicaid Fraud and Abuse&WT.z_contenttype=Report Sue Urahn, executive vice president, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Valerie Chang, associate director for policy, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, explain why states are seeking these answers and how this new project will find and share them. Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:34:38 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899447051&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=State Health Care Spending Project&WT.rss_a=Q&A: State Health Care Costs&WT.z_contenttype=Report <span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; DISPLAY: inline !important; FONT: 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(67,67,67); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">While total U.S. health care spending grew slowly in 2011, rising about four percent, the story for state and local governments was dramatically different.</span> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:59:29 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899446248&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=State Health Care Spending Project&WT.rss_a=Health Care Spending Slowdown? Not for States and Localities&WT.z_contenttype=Report <p>Sixty-one key cities across America have emerged from the Great Recession with a gap of more than $217 billion between what they had promised their workers in pensions and retiree health care and what they had saved to pay that bill, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts.</p> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:29:49 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899443031&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=State Health Care Spending Project&WT.rss_a=A Widening Gap in Cities&WT.z_contenttype=Report <br />Sixty-one key cities across America have emerged from the Great Recession with a gap of more than $217 billion between what they had promised their workers in pensions and retiree health care and what they had saved to pay that bill, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:18:49 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899442692&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=State Health Care Spending Project&WT.rss_a=Pew Study Finds 61 Cities' Retirement Systems Face $217 Billion Gap&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease <p> A new report from the Pew Center on the States shows why states must take strong action now to pay for employees’ retirement benefits or taxpayers will suffer later.<br /></p> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:45:00 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=57353&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=State Health Care Spending Project&WT.rss_a=The Trillion Dollar Gap&WT.z_contenttype=Report Terms and Conditions Page http://www.pewtrusts.org/terms_and_conditions.aspx