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Save to My PortfolioBending the Curve: A Comparative Review of the Senate Finance Committee Reform Proposal

Joseph Antos, John Bertko, Michael Chernew, David Cutler, Dana Goldman, Mark B. McClellan, Elizabeth McGlynn, Mark Pauly, Leonard Schaeffer and Stephen Shortell, September 29, 2009, The Brookings Institution

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. Read More

Health Care, Medicare, Public Health

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Save to My PortfolioBending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth

Joseph Antos, John Bertko, Michael Chernew, David Cutler, Dana Goldman, Mark B. McClellan, Elizabeth McGlynn, Mark Pauly, Leonard Schaeffer and Stephen Shortell, September 01, 2009, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform

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. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Medicare, Public Health

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Save to My PortfolioThere is No Entitlement Crisis; There Is a Health Care Funding Crisis

Henry J. Aaron, September 01, 2009, AARP Bulletin

Senior Fellow Henry J. Aaron explains why reforming health care is crucial to sustaining Medicare, Social Security and federal finances. Read More

Medicare, Social Security, Health Care

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Save to My PortfolioImproving Quality and Value in the U.S. Health Care System

Aaron McKethan, Mark Shepard, S. Lawrence Kocot, Niall Brennan, Marisa Morrison, Nadia Nguyen, Reginald D. Williams II and Nicole Cafarella, August 21, 2009, Bipartisan Policy Center

As Congress and the Administration consider legislation to reduce the number of Americans without insurance coverage, they must simultaneously address shortfalls in the quality and efficiency of care that lead to higher costs and to poor health outcomes. Engelberg Center experts, with support from Avalere Health, discuss evidence on a range of payment and delivery system reforms designed to improve health care in a new report. Read More

Health Care, Health IT, Medicare

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Health Care Debate: Getting Better Care at Lower Costs

Mark B. McClellan, August 14, 2009, Political Capital with Al Hunt, Bloomberg TV

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. Read More

Health Care, Medicare

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My Portfolio10 Steps to Better Health Care

Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark B. McClellan, August 12, 2009, The New York Times

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. Read More

Health Care, Medicare

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioShow Me the Money: Options for Financing Health Reform

Mark B. McClellan, July 31, 2009, Alliance for Health Reform

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. Read More

Health Care, Public Health, Medicare

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Save to My PortfolioThe Economic Impact of Health Care Reform

Tuesday, June 02, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Washington, DC

On June 2, Christina Romer, chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, joined Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform director Mark McClellan, Harvard economist David Cutler and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin to discuss the economic case for health care reform and its potential impact on the U.S. economy. Read More

Health Care, U.S. Economy, Medicaid, Medicare, Public Health

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Save to My PortfolioThe Potential Role of Entitlement or Budget Commissions in Addressing Long-term Budget Problems

The Fiscal Seminar Group, June 02, 2009, The Brookings Institution

The Potential Role of Entitlement or Budget Commissions in Addressing Long-term Budget ProblemsThe United States faces a looming fiscal imbalance brought on by an aging population and rising health care costs. Yet, the current political environment discourages our leadership from making the tough choices required to fix our fiscal house. In this paper, a diverse group of budget experts reviews some of the recent history of appointed commissions, and discusses their potential role in long-term federal budgeting policy. Read More

Federal Budget, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, U.S. Economy

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Save to My PortfolioPolicy Changes to Improve Health Care Quality

Mark B. McClellan, May 18, 2009, Congressional Health Care Caucus

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.  Read More

Health Care, Medicare

VIDEO

Save to My PortfolioSocial Security and Medicare Solvency

Henry J. Aaron, May 14, 2009

The latest report on the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds reveals that these entitlement programs will likely run out of money sooner than expected. Senior Fellow Henry Aaron assesses the future of these two programs.

Social Security, Social Security Administration, Medicare, Retirement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Save to My PortfolioHealth Care Reform: Beware of Interest Groups Bearing Gifts

Henry J. Aaron, May 12, 2009, The Huffington Post

The Obama administration’s breakthrough with the health care industry to cut costs is eerily reminiscent of the 1970s, according to Henry Aaron. Then, as today, health care spending was outpacing income growth and the industry promised to voluntarily to rein in the growth. If we are to learn from history, rather than simply repeat it, he says, there are some simple but vitally important lessons. Read More

Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Regulation

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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Health Care Reform: The Art of the Possible

Henry J. Aaron, May 09, 2009, The New Republic

U.S. Health Care Reform: The Art of the PossibleBehind closed doors all over Washington, serious people are working hard to design a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system. We should wish them well, but their chances of success are slim, says Henry Aaron. Since yet another complete failure would be catastrophic, some attention should be given now to policies that, he says, are politically palatable and would begin the evolution to a new and better health system. Read More

Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Fiscal Policy, Federal Budget

VIDEO

Save to My PortfolioHealth Care Reform and President Obama's Budget

Alice M. Rivlin, February 27, 2009

Health Care Reform and President Obama's BudgetIn this video, Alice Rivlin says that President Obama's budget calls for taxing the wealthy to help pay for aggressive reform of the nation’s health care system and that the plan also seeks to curtail wasteful Medicare and Medicaid spending while increasing services and efficiency in those programs.

Federal Budget, Budget Deficit, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare

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Save to My PortfolioThere is No Entitlement Crisis

Henry J. Aaron, February 23, 2009, The Brookings Institution

That the United States faces daunting long-term budget challenges is indisputable. But the very projections—those of the Congressional Budget Office—cited to document the long-term budget challenge, show that there is no general entitlement problem, says Henry Aaron. Rather, he argues, the nation faces a daunting health care financing problem that bedevils private insurers and public programs alike. Read More

Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Fiscal Policy

In Brief

America’s largest public health program has contributed substantially to the well-being of America’s oldest citizens. Some say Medicare represents a working model of national health insurance. Yet, with fewer workers paying into the system since the recession began in December 2007, the program is moving closer to insolvency. Coupled with rising health costs, reforming Medicare is considered crucial.

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Isabel V. Sawhill

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The Cabot Family Chair

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.
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Mark B. McClellan

Mark B. McClellan

Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies

A medical doctor and economist, Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.
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Henry J. Aaron

Henry J. Aaron

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair

A noted health care expert, Henry Aaron focuses on the reform of health care financing; public systems such as Medicare and Medicaid; Social Security; and tax and budget policy.
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Alice M. Rivlin

Alice M. Rivlin

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

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. 
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