RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark B. McClellan, February 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amanda Glassman and Christopher Lane, November 29, 2007, The Brookings Institution
The 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
PAST EVENT
Friday, February 29, 2008
Washington, DC
In 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Arvind Panagariya, January 24, 2008, The Economic Times
Arvind Panagariya discusses the degraded state of India's health care system and how it is affecting the nation's poor. Read More
UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, May 22, 2008
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Cleveland, OH
In 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, May 15, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Compiled 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
VIDEO
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.
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Washington, DC
Many 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason Furman, April 15, 2008, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Testifying 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
VIDEO
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.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8, Spring 2008
Despite 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
PAST EVENT
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
VIDEO
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.