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July 13, 2012 | Presentation Material
In this group session, Ellen Zane, chief executive officer emeritus of Tufts Medical Center, shares insights into the dynamics of health care markets and how those dynamics might affect the implementation of health reform and efforts to reduce cost ...
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1998, the journal Health Services Research published a special issue devoted to recent research and scholarly thinking on the evolving role of federal and state regulation in the changing health care marketplace.
August 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This report provides a preliminary look at prospects for the ACA’s Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs)—nonprofit, member-governed insurance plans. The Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed rules for this loan program an ...
October 2, 2007 | Report
This paper shows that a substantial change in the U.S. approach to health care funding is central to any sustainable, comprehensive reform that focuses on improved quality.
November 25, 2009 | Toolkit
This case study examines the current state of post-claims underwriting and rescissions regulation in Texas.
September 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
The FRESH-Thinking project at Stanford University, directed by Victor Fuchs and Ezekiel Emanuel, sponsored a series of meetings in 2007–10 that addressed policy options essential to all health reform proposals.
January 1, 2007 | Report
This paper explores four key areas where changes in federal and state law that will be necessary to implement health care reform.
January 1, 2007 | Report
This paper examines the rationales for regulation and argues that regulatory changes alone are not likely to significantly control costs or improve efficiency.
September 1, 2007 | Report
This paper suggests that major health reform must address poor quality amid rampant expense, with greater reliance on technology assessment and cost effectiveness.
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.