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Journal Article
Medicaid-the need for reform
Recent administration proposals to address the rising cost of Medicaid will do little to contain costs or truly reform the program. The primary issues are the large differences among state Medicaid programs in coverage and benefits and the programs high and rising costs. In this paper, we describe and develop several options for Medicaid reform that would expand coverage, provide fiscal relief to states, shift responsibility for some or all of the cost of dual eligibles to the federal government, and eliminate or restructure the disproportionate share programs. A number of other issues are ...
Journal Article
Undocumented immigrants and child health
Integrating health reform with immigration reform would improve the health outcomes of undocumented immigrants? children, millions of whom are actually U.S. citizens.
Journal Article
Does health care reform support self-employment?
Didem Tzemen and Thealexa Becker study the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act and find the reform may have supported self-employment in the state.
Conference Paper
Economic perspectives on health information technology
This policy panel will present and debate proposals for the next steps in reforming the U.S. health care system. Which challenge deserves the highest priority ? providing universal access; instituting better measures of quality and outcomes and better management systems; or reining in costs? How should these challenges be addressed? What keeps us from ?having it all?? Does the fundamental obstacle lie in market behavior, inadequate or asymmetric information, lack of political will, or the human psyche? How would the proposed reforms tackle the underlying issue and help us maintain a ...
Briefing
Small employers and expanded health insurance coverage
New England states have been national leaders in developing and enacting health insurance programs. But as the new laws play out on real ground, various constituencies are seeing real or perceived devils in the detail of the expansion laws. For one group in particular?small employers?efforts to extend coverage have become a two-edged sword.
Conference Paper
It’s technology (and what it is or isn’t worth), stupid! Comments on Aaron’s “It’s Health Care, Stupid! Why Control of Health Care Spending Is Vital for Long-Term Fiscal Stability”
What are the implications of the current structure of the U.S. health care system for U.S. fiscal stability at the federal and state levels over the medium and long terms? What are the national, global, and inter-generational distribution effects? How will a growing recognition of the need for ?reform? affect saving decisions? Is the macro adjustment to ?broken? health care promises likely to be smooth? What are the policy implications?
Conference Paper
Will the United States continue to allocate a growing proportion of its GDP to health care?
What policy options would improve the access, efficiency, and quality shortcomings found in the current U.S. health care system? This session will address the efficacy of the available policy alternatives and their likely interactions. What, for instance, are the cost implications of providing better insurance coverage and encouraging ongoing scientific progress? How should these desirable objectives be financed? Can better measures of quality and outcomes and more effective management systems help to balance our health care goals?
Conference Paper
Comments on Enthoven’s “The U.S. Experience with Managed Care and Managed Competition”
This session will provide an overview of the U.S. health care system with an emphasis on trends observed since the reforms of the early 1990s. ; How has the health care system adjusted to the introduction of market-oriented medicine? And what have been the consequences for access to care, health care costs (public and private), and the quality of care over the past decade? How does the U.S. health care system measure up in international comparisons, for instance? Does managed care work as its advocates expected or have inappropriate consumer and provider incentives undermined this experiment? ...
Newsletter
The 2009 Health Care Leader Forum - a conference summary
On March 30?31, 2009, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Detroit Regional Chamber co-sponsored the third annual forum on health care. This year?s program focused on the role of employers in improving the health care system in terms of cost, quality, and accessibility.