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Save to My PortfolioCandidate Issue Index: Health Care

Mark B. McClellan, February 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Candidate Issue Index: Health CareHealth 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

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Save to My PortfolioBetter Aid for AIDS Treatment: The Promise of Endowment Funds

Amanda Glassman and Christopher Lane, November 29, 2007, The Brookings Institution

Better Aid for AIDS Treatment: The Promise of Endowment FundsThe continuity and sustainability of global health financing continues to be a major challenge in the fight to stem HIV/AIDS, particularly in developing countries. Brookings Global Health expert Amanda Glassman examines country-based endowment funds as one innovative financing mechanism that could help alleviate this ongoing problem. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioTaxes and Health Insurance: Analysis and Policy

Friday, February 29, 2008
Washington, DC

Reuters/Shannon StapletonIn a conference co-sponsored by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the American Tax Policy Institute, some of the nation’s foremost tax and health care experts presented results of research evaluating the effectiveness of tax policy in expanding health insurance coverage and controlling health care spending. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioIndia: The Crisis in Rural Health Care

Arvind Panagariya, January 24, 2008, The Economic Times

India: The Crisis in Rural Health CareArvind Panagariya discusses the degraded state of India's health care system and how it is affecting the nation's poor. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioReforming Health Care: Improving Quality, Controlling Costs, Expanding Coverage

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

ReutersIn the midst of this primary season, the Brookings Institution and the Cleveland Clinic are hosting an Opportunity 08 forum entitled “Reforming Health Care: Improving Quality, Controlling Costs, Expanding Coverage.” This forum will provide voters in Ohio with an in-depth policy discussion on the challenges – and possible solutions – that will confront our next president. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioHealth Reform Through Tax Reform: A Primer

Jason Furman, May/June 2008, Project HOPE/ Health Affairs

Tax incentives for employer-sponsored insurance and other medical spending cost about $200 billion annually and have pervasive effects on coverage and costs. In this paper, Jason Furman surveys a range of proposals to reform health care, either by adding new tax incentives or by limiting or replacing the existing tax incentives. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioCandidate Issue Index: Children

Julia B. Isaacs, May 15, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Candidate Issue Index: ChildrenCompiled by Brookings Institution experts, this chart is part of a series of issue indices being published during the 2008 Presidential election cycle. In this index, candidates' views on children's issues are presented. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioLeaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care

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

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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Save to My PortfolioThe Impact of Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experiences from China and Colombia

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Washington, DC

Reuters/Jianan YuMany health systems in the developing world are plagued by unequal access to health care, low utilization of services and high user fees. On April 15, Global Economy and Development at Brookings hosted presentations from leading authorities on the impact of health insurance in developing countries. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Concept of Neutrality in Tax Policy

Jason Furman, April 15, 2008, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

The Concept of Neutrality in Tax PolicyTestifying before the Senate Finance Committee on Tax Day—April 15, Jason Furman described how policy-makers can make the tax code more efficient by following principles of "tax neutrality" so that individuals' decisions are made on economic merits and not for tax reasons. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioArtificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United States

Joshua M. Epstein, April 02, 2008, Federal News Radio AM 1050

With the possibility of a national or international emergency, people need to know how to best be prepared. Joshua M. Epstein discusses how agent-based computational modeling has the ability to create artificial societies to model human behavior in an emergency situation. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Cost of Medicare

Alice M. Rivlin and Martha Raddatz, March 25, 2008

Paying for Medicare threatens the solvency of the U.S. budget while meeting the needs of the aging Medicare population is a demographic battle. Senior Fellow Alice Rivlin says that, while difficult, our next president must control the costs while maintaining the program.

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Save to My PortfolioNew Economy Safety Net: A Proposal to Enhance Worker Adjustment Programs

Lael Brainard, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8, Spring 2008

New Economy Safety Net: A Proposal to Enhance Worker Adjustment ProgramsDespite profound economic changes over recent years, America’s job-transition, or worker adjustment, program remains one of the weakest among advanced economies. Lael Brainard proposes fundamental changes in the nation’s programs in order to provide enhanced training and financial support to help American workers compete. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioOur Looming Medical Cost Catastrophe: What’s to be Done?

Friday, March 07, 2008
Washington, DC

Panelists at this conference, co-sponsored by Brookings and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, considered why past efforts to contain health costs have failed and how America might achieve cost-sensitive health care reform in the future. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag offered remarks. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioHealth Care Challenges for Our Next President

Henry J. Aaron and Martha Raddatz, March 06, 2008

Senior Fellow Henry Aaron explains to ABC’s Martha Raddatz that our next president will confront major health policy decisions with far-reaching effects on the life of virtually every American.

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The United States faces profound and growing problems in the provision of health care. These challenges are massive in scope, with significant social, economic and political dimensions. Similar situations face other countries around the world, both industrialized and developing. Brookings is embarked upon an Institution-wide effort to develop solutions that will enhance our country's ability to finance and deliver health care services at home and world-wide.

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ProgramMetropolitan Policy Program

Redefining the challenges facing metropolitan America and promoting innovative solutions to help communities grow in more inclusive, competitive and sustainable ways.

Policy CenterJohn L. Thornton China Center

The John L. Thornton China Center develops analysis and policy recommendations to help address key long-term challenges, both in terms of U.S.-China relations and China's internal development.

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.

ExpertMartin S. Indyk

Ambassador to Israel and assistant secretary of state for near east affairs during the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk directs the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. He currently focuses on the Clinton administration’s diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

ExpertSuzanne Maloney

Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.

Policy CenterSaban Center for Middle East Policy

The Saban Center conducts original research and develops innovative programs to promote a better understanding of the policy choices facing American decisionmakers in the Middle East.

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

ExpertLael Brainard

Lael Brainard is vice president and director of Global Economy and Development. She focuses on competitiveness, trade, international economics, U.S. foreign assistance and global poverty.

ProgramGlobal Economy and Development

Global Economy and Development advances research, dialogue, and innovative solutions to address the forces of globalization and the challenges of global poverty.

ExpertThomas Mann

A noted congressional scholar, Tom Mann writes and speaks widely on issues related to campaigns, elections and the effectiveness of Congress.

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.

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. 

ExpertRon Haskins

A former White House and congressional advisor on welfare issues, Ron Haskins co-directs the Brookings Center on Children and Families. He is an expert on preschool, foster care and poverty.

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.