Issue: Health Care

Apart from income shocks, the greatest financial threat to American families is the cost of health care and the risk that they will be bankrupted by catastrophic health events. The Hamilton Project will develop two series of proposals for delivering higher quality health care with less financial risk for families. A first series of proposals focuses on improving the affordability and effectiveness of health care in the United States. A second series presents a range of policy proposals for achieving the goal of universal health care coverage for all Americans.

Events

• Who's Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage A Two-Part Series on Health-Care Policy . Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers. July 17, 2007.
  
  
• Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance. Discussions featuring Hamilton Project paper. May 02, 2007.
  
  
• Health-care Reform Reconsidered: Options for Change Part 1: Affordability and Effectiveness. Discussions featuring Hamilton Project papers. April 10, 2007.

Health Care Discussion Papers

All Hamilton Research and Commentary

• Universal, Effective and Affordable Health Insurance: An Economic Imperative
  by Jason Furman and Robert E. Rubin
  
  
• Achieving Universal Coverage Through Medicare Part E(veryone)
  by Gerard F. Anderson and Hugh R. Waters
  
  
• Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
  by Stuart M. Butler
  
  
• A Comprehensive Cure: Universal Health Care Vouchers
  by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs
  
  
• The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health-care Reform
  by Jason Furman, The Hamilton Project
  
  
• Mending the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Improving Consumer Choice and Restructuring Purchasing
  by Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard University
  
  
• A Wellness Trust to Prioritize Disease Prevention
  by Jeanne M. Lambrew, The George Washington University and Center for American Progress
  
  

All Hamilton Research and Commentary

Experts

Richard G. Frank Harvard Medical School and John F. Kennedy School of Government	Jeanne M. Lambrew The George Washington University, Center for American Progress
Jason Furman The Brookings Institution	Joseph P. Newhouse Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and John F. Kennedy School of Government
Jonathan Gruber Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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