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Reuters/Kirsten Neumann - Elderly residents use walking frames to stroll along a corridor at the St. Josef residential care home

Save to My Portfolio Briefing on Long-Term Care

Friday, July 11, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Washington, DC

On July 11, the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a Hill briefing on Long-Term Care Reform that focused on opportunities to improve quality of care and address the long-term fiscal challenges of long-term care in the United States. Distinguished panelists included Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Susan Collins, Representative Jim McCrery, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag, former Senator Bob Kerrey, former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Read More

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Reuters/Jacky Naegelen

Save to My Portfolio Forum on Drug Safety and Post-Market Evidence

Friday, June 13, 2008
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Washington, DC

On June 13, 2008, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a public forum on prescription drug safety that included a brief overview of current Food and Drug Administration activity as well as progress to date on a host of technical, legal, and communications-related challenges identified in the course of the center's ongoing collaborative work in this area. Read More

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PAST EVENT: Reforming Health Care


Reuters - Dr. John Fung, chief of the transplant surgery division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, reviews a patient's X-ray

Save to My Portfolio Reforming Health Care

Thursday, May 22, 2008
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Cleveland, OH

In the midst of this presidential primary season, Brookings and the Cleveland Clinic co-hosted an Opportunity 08 forum on reforming health care. Panelists at this event provided voters an in-depth policy discussion on the challenges—and possible solutions—that will confront our next president. Read More

Health Care, Elections

SPOTLIGHT: Health Care


Reuters/Shannon Stapleton - A doctor examines a patient with flu like symptoms.

Save to My Portfolio Candidate Issue Index: Health Care

Mark B. McClellan, February 22, 2008

Health care is a major issue in the presidential campaign. The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, led by Dr. Mark McClellan, presents presidential candidates' positions on coverage, costs, quality, market-based reforms, technology and portability. This chart is part of a series of issue indices being published during the 2008 presidential election cycle. Read More

Health Care, U.S. Politics, Elections, Political Campaigns, Politics

Past Event: Health Care and the Deficit


Mark McClellan speaks at an Opportunity 08 event in New Hampshire

Save to My Portfolio The Budget Deficit and the Soaring Costs of Health Care

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
9:30 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Manchester, NH

On September 26, Opportunity 08 joined Saint Anselm College in Manchester for a forum examining key domestic issues facing presidential candidates in the New Hampshire primary. Read More

Health Care, Budget Deficit

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio FDA Reform

Mark B. McClellan, April 13, 2007

Congress is considering major legislation addressing pressing issues at the Food and Drug Administration. A decade ago, reform was motivated by the perception that the agency wasn't getting new medicines to patients as efficiently as possible. Today, a leading concern is that it isn't protecting the public from drugs' risks as effectively as it might. Read More

Save to My Portfolio Improving Health Information Technology

The Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Engelberg Center will assist LMI Consulting in furthering the adoption of health information technology that will allow providers to share information and improve healthcare outcomes. The center will provide its expertise at no cost to the government, as part of a broad-based collaborative approach.

Quality Alliance Steering Committee

Save to My Portfolio High-Value Health Care

Over the past decade, many organizations and health care leaders have coalesced around a vision of creating a national system to measure the quality and cost of health care in the United States, and to use this information to improve care. Read More

Quality Alliance Steering Committee

Save to My Portfolio New Collaboration

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform is working with America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Foundation and others to support the vision of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee (QASC). Read More

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The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

Recent Research and Commentary

Health Care From Few to Many

Health Care Briefing on Long-Term Care Reform

July 11, 2008

Health Care Health Reform Through Tax Reform: A Primer

Jason Furman, May/June 2008

Health Care Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care

Mark B. McClellan, Senator George Mitchell, April 16, 2008

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The State of American Health Care

Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, discusses the need for improved access to quality coverage in order to achieve a healthier and more productive America.

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ExpertIsabel V. Sawhill

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.

ExpertAlice M. Rivlin

Alice Rivlin, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on urban issues as well as fiscal, monetary and social policy. She directs the Greater Washington Research project. 

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

ExpertSarah A. Binder

Sarah Binder is an expert on Congress and legislative politics.  Her current projects focus on the politics of federal judicial selection and the consequences of partisan polarization.

ExpertWilliam Galston

Bill Galston, the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns and elections. His research focuses on designing a new social contract and the implications of political polarization.

ExpertMartin Neil Baily

Martin Baily, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform and U.S. economic policy.

ExpertJulia B. Isaacs

Julia Isaacs focuses on public investments in children and how children are affected by national budgetary policies. A former federal budget analyst, she also researches the economic mobility of children and families across the income spectrum.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers. Read More

ExpertWarwick J. McKibbin

An international economics expert based in Australia, Warwick McKibbin focuses his research on global climate change; the emergence of China and India into the world economy; and global economic modeling.

ExpertHugh B. Price

Former president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Hugh Price is an expert on education, civil rights, equal opportunity and criminal justice. His 40-year career spans journalism, philanthropy, the law, and social advocacy.

ExpertRebecca Blank

Rebecca Blank is an expert on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well being of low-income families. She has just been named the Robert V. Kerr senior fellow at Brookings.

ExpertDarrell M. West

Darrell M. West is the vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings. His studies include campaigns and elections, political advertising, mass media, public opinion, technology policy and electronic government.

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.