Comparative effectiveness research must assess a comprehensive array of health-related outcomes for diverse patient groups. This paper explores a variety of issues surrounding the implementation of CER.
This paper outlines a model for Medicare Part E(everyone), a program to provide universal, continuous, and affordable health insurance. This proposal adopts Medicare rules and payment systems to provide enrollees the same benefits that current Medicare beneficiaries receive.
This paper examines the interrelated problems of uninsurance and expensive or ineffective care in the American healthcare system. Universal insurance would eliminate uncompensated cost shifts and expand risk pooling and reduce the fragmentation of financing.
Jonathan Gruber discusses issues surrounding universal healthcare coverage and the uninsured and lays out a plan at the national level which builds on the Massachusetts model.
Ezekiel Emanuel and Victor Fuchs discuss a Universal Healthcare Voucher System, which would achieve universal health coverage by entitling all Americans to a standard package of benefits comparable to that received by federal employees.
For most working-age families, health insurance is directly connected to the workplace; but this form of coverage is steadily eroding. This paper outlines three key steps necessary to achieve a gradual transformation without disrupting successful parts of the system.
One important contribution to the challenges facing healthcare today is the increased insulation of Americans from the cost of care. To address this issue, this paper proposes a template for a progressive cost sharing plan.
Chronic and preventable diseases now account for most of the deaths and costs in the healthcare system, despite relatively low-tech and low-cost services that could limit them. This paper outlines a new agency to deliver preventive care.
This paper proposes a series of reforms to address the challenges facing Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit. These reforms include creating a standardized set of plans, increasing competition, and lowering prices paid for drugs.
The Project co-hosted a forum with the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform to address the key questions surrounding comparative effectiveness research. The event featured remarks from Sen. Max Baucus and former Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
The Project held two panel roundtable discussions on four alternative policy proposals for achieving universal health care coverage in the United States and the merits and challenges of the various proposals.
The Hamilton Project hosted a policy seminar on a proposal from Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation to move toward universal coverage by evolving beyond the traditional model of employer-sponsored health insurance.
The Project held the first of a two-part series focused on making health care more affordable while improving its effectiveness. The event featured panel discuss on the challenges of providing affordable quality health care and specific health policy recommendations.
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform Director Mark McClellan on the benefits and challenges to comparative effectiveness research at the Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods, and Impact Hamilton Project and Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform event.
Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on the national benefits of comparative effectiveness research at at the Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods, and Impact Hamilton Project and Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform event.
Council on Foreign Relations Co-Chair and Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin says the steep costs of health care are affecting American competitiveness and are a threat to the country's economic future at the Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods, and Impact Hamilton Project and Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform event.
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform Director Mark McClellan on using comparative effectiveness research to improve costs and outcomes at the Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods, and Impact Hamilton Project and Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform event.
Then-Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag argues that health care reform should address two needs, providing health care to more people and doing so more efficiently at the Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods and Impact Hamilton Project and Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform event.
Photos from a forum hosted by The Hamilton Project and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform addressed many of the key questions surrounding CER and feature remarks from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
Full audio from Panel One of the event Who's Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage
Full audio from Panel Two of the event Who's Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage
Full audio from the event Health Care Reconsidered: Options for Change Part One: Affordability and Effectiveness
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