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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In early September, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform released a report, Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Spending Growth, to help inform the current debate. A new brief provides a high-level review of the legislation introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, including a side-by-side summary of key provisions of the Bending the Curve report and those in the Baucus proposal.
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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At a recent Congressional Health Care Caucus policy forum, Engelberg Center Director Mark McClellan discussed some of the unanswered questions and challenges facing health care reform, noting that there has been little public engagement on several key issues that need to be addressed, including major reforms within health insurance markets, and the need for fundamental changes to support better lifestyle choices.
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Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark McClellan, a senior fellow and the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, talks with Kai Ryssdal about rumors that President Barack Obama may drop the public option in a new health care bill and what's likely to happen next.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Reducing the growth of health care spending must be a top priority for health care reform. With this goal in mind, a group of leading health policy experts, including Engelberg Center Director Mark McClellan, has released a set of concrete, feasible steps that show promise for both slowing spending growth and improving quality and value in health care.
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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Engelberg Center director Mark McClellan discusses with Bloomberg TV's Political Capital host Al Hunt cost-saving measures around the country that deliver better health care at lower costs, and the importance of bipartisanship in implementing sustainable reform.
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As the discussion on health care reform continues across America, Mark McClellan and other health policy experts have looked for solutions from communities that are already redesigning health care for the better. The experts offer a number of steps that can help our nation change how health care is delivered so that it is both less expensive and more effective.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At the Alliance for Health Reform’s recent briefing on health care financing, Engelberg Center Director Mark McClellan focused on a new path forward to health reform, based on his work with the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In 2007, Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create a new postmarketing surveillance system that will, by 2012, be using electronic health data from 100 million people to prospectively monitor the safety of marketed medical products. In The New England Journal of Medicine, Mark McClellan and key health policy experts discuss how the FDA's Sentinel Network can achieve this goal with proper organization, operation, and implementation.
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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark McClellan, having served in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, shares his ideas with Dallas Morning News for developing a bipartisan consensus on health reform.
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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A forum hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and The Hamilton Project addressed many of the key questions surrounding comparative effectiveness research (CER). Discussion papers released at the event focus on how research questions should be prioritized, what methods and data infrastructure are needed for CER, and how CER findings can be used to improve clinical and health policy decisions.
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Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark McClellan addressed the Congressional Health Care Caucus recently to discuss needed policy changes to build a health care system that supports better care at lower costs.
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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee's Roundtable on Health Care Reform, Mark McClellan discussed how reform efforts are increasingly concerned with changing how health care is delivered, and how the Accountable Care Organization model could help without creating significant changes in existing payments or substantial new financial risks.
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Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark McClellan discusses with Bloomberg News the urgent need for U.S. health care reform and why real reform means changing the way our health care system works.
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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The problems of inefficient and uncertain development of cancer therapies are not new, but they have become more urgent in an era that should be defined by clinically meaningful advances in genomics and proteomics and the promise of personalized cancer therapy. Mark McClellan and Josh Benner discuss four important steps that could lead to this new era of care.
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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To succeed, health care reform must slow spending growth while improving quality. Mark McClellan and leading health care experts propose a new approach to help achieve more integrated and efficient care by fostering local organizational accountability for quality and costs through performance measurement and "shared savings" payment reform.
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, Mark McClellan discussed comparative effectiveness as just one step in the larger process of developing and applying evidence to improve the quality and value of health care.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Increasing the adoption of health information technology (IT) has the potential to not only improve quality of care, but also change the way health care is delivered.
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
From the standpoint of presidential and congressional leadership heading into 2009, one thing is clear: Now is the time for action on a different vision for health care reform.
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The high and rising cost of expanding coverage is a major reason why previous attempts to achieve universal coverage have not succeeded, and why reform will keep getting harder, writes Mark McClellan, if we use the same approaches as in the past.
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Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:57:19 GMT
Mark McClellan, announcing the launch of the Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care, an initiative of the Bipartisan Policy Center, says there must be improved access to quality coverage if we hope to have a healthier and more productive America.
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Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
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.
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
On June 28, 2007, Brookings Senior Fellow Mark McClellan testified before the House Budget Committee, discussing the Medicare Advantage program as it relates to the Federal Budget and the overall value it brings to the health care system for the public.
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Mark B. McClellan (April 13, 2007)
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Mark B. McClellan (03/14/07)