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In "The Push for the Summit: Creating Health Care's New Terrain," we now set our sights on frontiers and summits yet to come.
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Expert Reflection
October 1, 2011 | Commentary
Making judgments about how much a person could pay for health insurance is difficult?even for an expert panel member.
An "Architectural Digest"
March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary
Covering America: A Timely Reprise
A Tour of the Proposals
March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary
To help direct people to reform plans that may be most useful to their current work, we now categorize the plans developed under the Covering America Project.
Conclusion
March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary
Covering America: A Timely Reprise
Reflections from Alice Rivlin, Jacob Hacker and Christine Ferguson
March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary
Covering America project participants Alice Rivlin, Jacob Hacker and Christine Ferguson reflect on ways Covering America's work can contribute to today's health reform debate.
Does Pay-for-Performance Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?
September 1, 2010 | Commentary
Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.
Health Care is Different--That's Why Expenditures Matter
May 12, 2010 | Commentary
Economist Victor Fuchs, Ph.D., outlines what distinguishes health care from other goods and services and why we should be concerned about rising health care expenditures.
Bending the Cost Curve
October 12, 2009 | Commentary
This commentary identifies methods to slow the increase in health care costs in the United States. The current proposed expansion of health insurance will cost the country an estimated trillion dollars over 10 years. To make this expansion possible, increases in the cost of health care must be curbed.
Cost Shifting Does Not Reduce the Cost of Health Care
September 2, 2009 | Commentary
This commentary addresses the differences between cost shifting and cost cutting and identifies the reasons why health care in the United States is more expensive per capita than the health care of any other nation.
A Focused Remedy is Best Cure for Health Care Crisis
January 8, 2009 | Commentary/Story
As Washington turn its eye toward health care reform, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., and Vernice Davis Anthony, president and CEO of the Greater Detroit Area Health Council, urge policy-makers to focus on what it means to "fix" health care and ask the hard questions about how medical care is delivered in this commentary published in the Detroit Free Press.