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Singapore's Health Care Lessons for the U.S.

May 6, 2013, William Haseltine

How Not to Die: Revolutionizing End-of-Life Health Care

April 30, 2013, Jonathan Rauch

Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform

April 29, 2013

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Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform - A Framework for Improving Care and Slowing Health Care Cost Growth

April 2013

Reforming Medicare: Fiscal Challenges and Policy Solutions

April 22, 2013

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How to Build a Better Health-care System

April 18, 2013, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin

The Future of the Affordable Care Act: a Debate on Its Effects

April 12, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Physician Leadership in Payment Reform

April 10, 2013

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How African Governments Should Respond to the Impact of the U.S. Sequester

March 27, 2013, Julius Agbor and Brandon Routman

Accessing and Communicating Device Information: UDI as a Tool for Improved Patient and Provider Connectivity

March 18, 2013

Payments to Elders Are Harming Our Future

March 8, 2013, Harry J. Holzer and Isabel V. Sawhill

Highlights from the Fifth Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop

March 7, 2013

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A Pop Quiz About Federal Spending That May Surprise You

March 5, 2013, Henry J. Aaron

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) at their heart are about aligning providers’ financial incentives with patients’ needs for better health and lower cost care. Unlike traditional third-party, fee-for-service insurance, which pays more for doing more, the payment models underlying accountable care pay more for achieving better care at lower cost.

March 4, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, Wall Street Journal

Incentives for Change: Addressing the Challenges in Antibacterial Drug Development

February 27, 2013

Improved Access to Device Information:What a UDI System Can Do for Patients and Consumers

February 26, 2013

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Transitioning to Bundled Payments in Medicare

February 26, 2013, Michael Chernew and Dana Goldman

Restructuring Cost Sharing and Supplemental Insurance for Medicare

February 26, 2013, Jonathan Gruber

Payer Involvement in the Sentinel Initiative

February 21, 2013

15 Ideas for Smart Deficit Reduction

February 20, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

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The State of Drug Safety Surveillance in the U.S.: Much Improved, More to Come

February 8, 2013, Gregory W. Daniel

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Discuss Mental Health in the State of the Union

February 8, 2013, Kavita Patel

Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop

January 31, 2013

It’s the biggest expansion of Medicaid in a long time, and the biggest ever in terms of adults covered. Although the federal government is on the hook for most of the cost, Medicaid on the whole is one of the biggest items in state budgets and the fastest growing. So there are some understandable concerns about the financial implications and how implementation would work.

January 28, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, The Associated Press

The steps that I think are most promising are really about changing payment methods to reward providers for better health outcomes.

January 21, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, Financial Times