2008 Hamilton Project Economic Policy Innovation Prize Papers
The Hamilton Project’s 2008 Economic Policy Innovation Prize Papers are now available online. Robert Nelb, a 2009 MPH candidate at Yale University, is the winner of the $12,500 graduate-level prize. Nelb’s paper, "Effortless Enrollment: Using Existing Information to Automatically Enroll eligible Families in Medicaid and SCHIP," proposes that electronically identifying and automatically enrolling eligible beneficiaries is a promising new strategy that can help reach nearly 10 million uninsured Americans who are eligible for public health programs but are not enrolled.
Nathan Punwani, a recent graduate of Lehigh University, is the winner of the $7,500 undergraduate prize. His paper “Medicare & Medicaid Reform: Ensuring Long-Term Solvency,” proposes a comprehensive policy regime to curtail excess cost growth in health care.
The goal of the policy prize competition is to encourage the next generation of leaders to rigorously pursue innovative policy solutions to the pressing economic issues facing our nation, in order to further the project’s broad goals of promoting economic growth, broad-based participation in growth, and economic security. [The prizes were awarded in Washington, DC at an event on December 5. For more information see the
Press Release.]