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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.


Testimony | November 4, 2003
Improving Chronic Care in Medicare
By Jeff Lemieux
Testimony before the Senate Special Committee on Aging's Forum on Disease Management in Medicare.


Backgrounder | July 24, 2003
Medicare Reform: Don't Forget Chronic Care
By Megan Burns, Jeff Lemieux, and Matt Alpert
PPI urges the Medicare bill negotiators to recognize the importance of chronic care provisions and take the best elements from both sides of Congress: the House's permanent administrative and oversight structure, and the Senate's physician fee demonstration and extra funding.


Blueprint Magazine | June 30, 2003
Declaring War on Chronic Illness
By David B. Kendall
Health care providers need tools, technology, and the right incentives to provide patients state-of-the-art care.


Policy Report | February 14, 2003
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.
By turning Medicare into a performance-based and purpose-driven program accountable for better health outcomes, but with the flexibility to reach them, the chronic care framework offers a proven method for reform.


Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
Collaborating with Your Doctor
By Jessie Gruman
Managing chronic diseases requires partnerships.


Blueprint Magazine | April 1, 2000
What's Your Plan?
By Eric B. Schnurer
Most people don't have a longer-term care insurance, a fact that could bankrupt both government and families. Here's a better plan.



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