RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
PAST EVENT
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
The Fiscal Seminar Group, June 02, 2009, The Brookings Institution
The 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
VIDEO
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.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Henry J. Aaron, May 09, 2009, The New Republic
Behind 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
VIDEO
Alice M. Rivlin, February 27, 2009
In 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.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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