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Policy Report | June 22, 2005 | 
Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System
By Art Levine
By offering rigorous fiscal and quality controls, more individual choice, and compassionate, effective mental health care, the Parity-Plus proposal offers a Third Way solution to this policy battle.
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New from PPI | July 28, 2009
Cash Cows and Health Care Quality
By Ed Kilgore
With all the wrangling over the cost of health care reform, it's useful to take a look at what we know about where our system seems to "overcharge" as compared to other, similar countries. We also need to remember that cost and access issues shouldn't be discussed in isolation: the quality of care we deliver matters a lot.
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New from PPI | July 21, 2009
Health Reform and the Specter of 1994
By Ed Kilgore
In the intra-party Democratic debate over health-care, there's a dialogue-of-the-deaf underway about the lessons of 1994 and their implications for 2010. It's not a simple issue, and the belief that the failure to enact Clinton Care doomed Democrats to defeat in 1994 is hardly beyond dispute.
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Briefing | May 18, 2009
What Voters Look for in Health Insurance Reform
By Bryan Dowd, Steven Pizer, and Roger Feldman
Policymakers should focus on giving Americans what they want: guaranteed, portable, affordable coverage that offers long-term premium stability.
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Letter | January 15, 2009
Recommendation for Electronic Health Records and Patient Privacy Protection in the Stimulus Bill
PPI is one of a dozen groups asking Congress to consider investments in health information technology as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Memo to the New President | January 15, 2009
Health Courts for Medical Justice
By David B. Kendall
As you prepare to tackle America's health-care dilemmas,
I urge you to bear in mind that reforming
the medical-malpractice system is essential to
restraining health-care costs and covering the uninsured.
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Memo to the New President | January 15, 2009
Reinventing Health Care -- The Role of States
By David Osborne
With federal support and incentives, states can cut the Gordian knot of our profligate, dysfunctional health-care system. To cut costs by 25 percent, improve quality, and cover every citizen, states should pursue seven big strategies.
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Memo | 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.
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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.
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Front & Center | July 7, 2005
Health Courts Advance in Congress
By David Kendall
The "Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act" is a bold, bipartisan proposal to reform America's broken system of medical justice.
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Policy Report | February 17, 2005
Health Courts: Fair and Reliable Justice for Injured Patients
By Nancy Udell and David B. Kendall
The existing medical malpractice system fails patients and health care providers, and is driving some good doctors out of business. Health courts would make the malpractice system swift and reliable for all.
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Briefing | February 18, 2003
Crossing the Health Policy Chasm
By Paul M. Ellwood, M.D.
The Jackson Hole Group calls for a new information-driven health system which will be able to increase its productivity, enhance effectiveness and accountability, advance our understanding of health outcomes, diffuse the toxic legal climate and give patients real power and responsibility.
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Backgrounder | August 22, 2000
Two Simple Ideas to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices
By Jeff Lemieux
1.) Allow consumers, patients, and health plans to petition the FDA to convert certain safe, easy-to-use drugs from prescription status to less expensive over-the-counter availability. 2.) Repeal the "best price" rule in the Medicaid drug rebate law, which doesn't save the government the money it's supposed to, and artificially keeps drug costs high.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
2001: A Personal Health Space Odyssey
By Katie Donohue
Store your health records. Talk to your doctor. Fill a perscription. All online and free, say boosters. But serious privacy issues must still be resolved.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Can Consumers Judge?
By David Lansky
We already have many of the tools to measure how well doctors perform, but we don't use them.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Is Your Personal Health Information Really Safe?
By Katie Donohue
Why the online industry must provide tighter safeguards.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Learning Health for Life
By Judy Packer-Tursman
K-12 health education reduces bad lifestyle choices later on.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Leveling the Playing Field
By Regina E. Herzlinger
The SEC transformed securities markets during the Great Depression. It's time to do the same for health care markets.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Revolution in Minnesota
By Kerry Tremain
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group is leading the way in reporting performance data.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Sources for the Blueprint Health Index
The following resources were used in the compilation of the Blueprint Health index.
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