Alain C. Enthoven’s paper, To Reform Medicare, Reform Incentives And Organization, explains how the principles of cost-responsible consumer choice among competing health-insurance plans, sometimes called “managed competition,” can both improve quality and reduce cost in the federal government’s Medicare program.
 

CED was honored to host a discussion on global health issues and economics with former CED Trustee Lois Quam, Executive Director, Global Health Initiative (GHI), U.S. Department of State. Ms. Quam discussed current GHI programs and how health experts and workers from the United States interface with local communities around the world to improve community health, thereby improving economic development.

On June 30, 2010 Alain C. Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public & Private Management Stanford University and Joseph J. Minarik, CED's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, presented findings on their new research report, Health Care in California and National Health Reform in a webinar. The report shows the lessons the nation can learn from California's experience in health care. CED views the exchange system, which is a part of the new law, as a potential vehicle for cost control and quality improvement through robust competition and consumer choice. However, as the exchange system has been designed, its effective implementation will pose significant challenges to the states. Enthoven and Minarik show how some existing California systems have approximated the benefits of working exchanges, how other states can put that experience to work in the new system, and how employers are likely to react to the recently passed health care law.

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CED Releases Study on Exchanges and Competition

Washington, D.C. December 16, 2009 – CED today released a study showing that the exchanges in the Senate health-reform bill are likely to fail as currently structured. The exchanges are health-insurance marketplaces where individuals without employer coverage and employees of some small businesses would go to obtain coverage. CED believes that exchanges are central to managing healthcare costs effectively and increasing access to care, particularly for the uninsured. They are also, potentially and with substantial improvement and expansion, the best way to force insurers to compete on quality and price. CED believes that, without such competition, costs will not be contained and American health care will not be truly reformed.  Read more...

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l-r: Lloyd Dean, Gregory Adams, Wade Rose, Lenny Mendonca, Lynn Jimenez

CED, in partnership with the Bay Area Council hosted a discussion on the importance of business engagement in the health-care reform debate. The forum featured a presentation on the business case for health care reform by Ken Shachmut, Executive Vice President of Safeway Health, followed by a panel of experts who discussed what they see as necessary components of a final health care bill.

On June 26th, CED hosted a webinar on health care reform. The presentation and discussion was led by Joe Minarik, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, and Alain Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public & Private Management at Stanford University.

Rocky Mountain PBS CEO and CED Trustee, Doug Price

On May 29th, CED and Rocky Mountain PBS co-hosted a luncheon policy forum entitled The Business Case for National Health Care Reform. The discussion featured a presentation on the economic case for reform, followed by a panel of experts who discussed the necessary steps that must be taken to ensure quality, affordable health care for all Americans. The experts offered a broad range of perspectives.

On April 23rd, CED and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Health Care Club hosted the Stanford GSB Health Care Summit: Is Health Care Getting Personal? at Stanford University. Over 120 students attended the event, which featured two keynote speakers, Randy Scott, Founder of Genomic Health, and Mary Hall Gregg, Vice President, Global Clinical Trials and International Business at Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Both Scott and Hall Gregg touched on the future of health care, and offered predictions for how new technology, in both genomics and diagnostic testing, herald a new era of personalized medicine.

CED, working with graduate students from the University of Michigan Health Care and Life Science Club and Net Impact chapter, hosted a dinner event entitled "Health Care, the Budget Deficit, and the Economy." The event took place on April 14th at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

The event featured Joe Minarik, CED's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, as a keynote speaker. He discussed why CED believes the employer-based health insurance system is broken, how health care costs affect the U.S. economy, and why health care reform is desperately needed.

CED President Charles Kolb also was a panelist at the 2009 Georgetown Public Policy Institute Conference, held on Capitol Hill on March 20th. The panel for the discussion The Tools Needed to Build Universal Health Care, included (left to right); Christopher Jennings, former Clinton White House health care advisor and founder of Jennings Policy Strategies; Thomas Daschle, former United States Senator and Senate Majority Leader; Kaitlin Guarascio, 2009 DPPI Conference Committee Chair; Judy Feder, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; and CED President Charles Kolb. The panel agreed that further delay in comprehensive health care reform will hamper economic recovery.

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