Health Care Reform
The bipartisan framework, "Crossing Our Lines: Working Together to Reform the U.S. Health Care System," released today by former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders and Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) Advisory Board members Howard Baker, Tom Daschle and Bob Dole, provides recommendations for comprehensive health reform to ensure that every American has affordable, quality health coverage. The report is a product of the BPC's Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care, which was launched last year and is co-directed by health care policy experts Chris Jennings and Mark McClellan.
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Past Event
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
8:30 AM to 12:45 PM
Washington, DC
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 invested $1.1 billion in federal initiatives to begin the important and necessary work of comparative effectiveness research (CER), a key building block in health care reform. A forum hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and The Hamilton Project addressed many of the key questions surrounding CER, and featured remarks from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
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Health Care
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Washington, DC
On June 2, Christina Romer, chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, joined Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform director Mark McClellan, Harvard economist David Cutler and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin to discuss the economic case for health care reform and its potential impact on the U.S. economy.
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Health Care, U.S. Economy, Medicaid, Medicare, Public Health
FEATURED EVENT
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Washington, DC
As the Obama administration looks to reform health care, encouraging signs point to the potential for health IT to play a significant role in changing the current system. At a forum on May 20, hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings in cooperation with the Markle Foundation, experts addressed strategies for coordinating recently enacted health IT incentives with other promising approaches to improving health care delivery.
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Health Care, Health IT
Past Event
Paul Morigi - Tom Priselac, David Wessner, Mark McClellan and Elliott Fisher discuss accountable care organizations during a policy forum.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
8:30 AM to 1:45 PM
Washington, DC
As Congress and the Obama administration begin to push for health care reform, they will have to address realigning provider payment incentives to drive changes in the way health care is delivered in the United States. A policy forum on March 11 at the Brookings Institution focused on the concept of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) as a means to achieving a higher-value health care system.
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Health Care
Medicare Reform
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Medicare could save money and improve health care quality by providing financial incentives to providers for coordinating patient care through a shared savings program, according to a new paper from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution.
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