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Health Care
Policy Report | September 2, 2008 |
Conquering Childhood Cancer
By Andrea Northup, Kunal Kothari, and David B. Kendall
Congress should adopt a strategy for conquering childhood diseases, starting with cancer, based on the following policies: creating a national health information network, funding the National Children's Study and the International Children's Cancer Cohort Consortium, and creating an American Center for Cures within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The American Interest | January 1, 2008 |
Health Care Costs and Malpractice Reform
By David Kendall
Here are the five key facts which show that the malpractice system as it exists today not only fails to achieve the basic goals of a tort system -- just compensation and effective deterrence -- but also contributes to both rising health care costs and poor quality care.

Policy Report | October 16, 2007 |
Health Coverage for All
By Katie Donohue and David Kendall
With Washington stalled in partisan paralysis and interest-group deadlock, the impetus for universal health care coverage is passing to the states.

Policy Report | September 22, 2005 |
Fixing America's Health Care System
By David B. Kendall
Our nation's health care system needs a comprehensive reform plan that gives everyone an equal opportunity to be healthy, without forcing anyone to give up the care they already have.




Consumer Empowerment

Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System
By Art Levine

Cash Cows and Health Care Quality
By Ed Kilgore

Health Reform and the Specter of 1994
By Ed Kilgore

What Voters Look for in Health Insurance Reform
By Bryan Dowd, Steven Pizer, and Roger Feldman

Recommendation for Electronic Health Records and Patient Privacy Protection in the Stimulus Bill

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Medicare & Medicaid

Exceeding Expectations
By Ed Kilgore

Health Reform and the Specter of 1994
By Ed Kilgore

A Better Drug Benefit
By Jeff Lemieux

Passing the Feasibility Test: A Low-Income and Catastrophic Medicare Drug Benefit
By Jeff Lemieux

Don't Import Foreign Price Controls on Prescription Drugs
By David B. Kendall

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Long-Term Care

Health Reform and the Specter of 1994
By Ed Kilgore

Improving Chronic Care in Medicare
By Jeff Lemieux

Medicare Reform: Don't Forget Chronic Care
By Megan Burns, Jeff Lemieux, and Matt Alpert

Declaring War on Chronic Illness
By David B. Kendall

Healthy Aging v. Chronic Illness: Preparing Medicare for the New Health Care Challenge
By David B. Kendall, Kerry Tremain, Jeff Lemieux, and S. Robert Levine, M.D.

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The Uninsured

Exceeding Expectations
By Ed Kilgore

Obama Makes His Case – and Ours
By Will Marshall

An Idea For Chuck Norris and Company
By Ed Kilgore

Cash Cows and Health Care Quality
By Ed Kilgore

Health Reform and the Specter of 1994
By Ed Kilgore

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Research & Technology

Conquering Childhood Cancer
By Andrea Northup, Kunal Kothari, and David B. Kendall

Building a Health Information Network
By David B. Kendall

Trusted Third Parties for Personal Health Records & Patient Privacy Briefing

Using Markets to Fight Disease for Development
By Kevin Croke

The New Health Care
By David Kendall, Jeff Lemieux, S. Robert Levine, M.D., and Kerry Tremain

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Health Policy Wire

The Dean-Lieberman Fallback Position?
By Ed Kilgore

Baucus Delivers Finance Bill
By Will Marshall

Obama Makes His Case – and Ours
By Will Marshall

PPI Health Policy Wire Vol 7, no 6

PPI Health Policy Wire Vol 7, no 5

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PPI favors a market-based, Information Age health care system. Our priorities include: universal coverage for the uninsured, Medicare reform based on competition and expanded benefits -- especially for prescription drugs -- and initiatives to improve quality and empower consumers.

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