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.
 

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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2008

This report brings the Digital Connections Council's expertise in information and communications technology and electronic commerce to bear on those aspects of healthcare that have been or can be changed by the Internet, the continued growth in computing power and data storage capacity, and the increasing digitization of information. These technological changes, and the greater openness that they enable, are visible in areas that range from biomedical research and the disclosure of research findings, through the

Moving Beyond the Employer-Based Health-Insurance System (2007)

In 2007, CED released a policy statement with recommendations to improve the quality, cost, and coverage of health care. The report concludes that public policy change at the federal level is necessary to improve both the quality and the affordability of health insurance. Reforms are urgently needed to align the incentives of health care providers and consumers to stop the current unsustainable growth in costs and decreasing insurance coverage for Americans. Employers acting alone cannot achieve the necessary changes. The

What We Must Do About It (2007)

This report presents the first two parts of CED's research and covers the scope of the crisis in health care and the options for fixing the system. A third part, offering CED's recommendations, Quality, Affordable Health Care for All: Moving Beyond the Employer-Based Health-Insurance System was released in October, 2007.

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A Leadership Role for Business (2002)

This report urges employers, along with government, not only to stay the course but to actively lead in implementing specific changes in private and public policies that could produce a health care system that works for all Americans. Since the publication of this report, CED has reversed its health care policy recommendations.

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