FRESH-Thinking

Focused Research on Efficient, Secure Healthcare

Publications

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In the News

Vic Fuchs Speaks!
Matthew Holt
The Health Care Blog, September 19, 2010

Health Care Reform and Cost Control
Peter R. Orszag, Ph.D., and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
NEJM, July 29, 2010

The Independent Payment Advisory Board
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D.
NEJM, May 26, 2010

Implementing Qualifications Criteria and Technical Assistance for Accountable Care Organizations
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. and Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D.
JAMA, May 2010

Economix Blog
David Brooks
New York Times, July 2009

Letters to health-care Santa--Let Ron Wyden fix the exchanges!
Ezra Klein
Washington Post, December 2009
Features Victor Fuchs (photo and interview)

What Happened to Cost Controls?
Karen Tumulty
Time, December 2009
Features Alan Garber

Health Care’s Obstacle: No Will to Cut
David Leonhardt
New York Times, March 2010

Health Care Reform (pdf)
Victor Fuchs
A Collection of Published Articles on U.S. Health Care Reform by Victor Fuchs, Head of Core Group, FRESH-Thinking

Controlling Health Care Costs - How to Bend the Curve
Steve Shortell
The Healthcare Blog, November 2009

Health Care Reform - Getting Down to Specifics
Victor Fuchs
The Huffington Post, October 2009
Featured op-ed

Bringing Health Care Reform Back into a Health Insurance Reform Bill
Hal Luft
Health Affairs Blog, September 2009

Cost Shifting Does Not Reduce the Cost of Health Care
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.
JAMA, September 2, 2009

Health Care Reform: Toward More Freedom, Responsibility, for Physicians
Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.
New England Journal of Medicine, August 6, 2009

A Public Option Isn't a Curse, or a Cure
New York Times, August 15, 2009

What’s Wrong With a Single-Payer System?
David Brooks and Gail Collins
New York Times, July 29, 2009

Update from the FRESH-Thinking Capstone Conference
Teal Pennebaker, May 15, 2009

Access and Ability to Pay: The Ethics of a Tiered Health Care System
Benjamin J. Krohmal, BA; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
Arch. Intern. Med. 2007

For Democrats, Pragmatism on Universal Health Care
Washington Post, July 10, 2007

FRESH-Thinking Aims to Identify Fixes for Healthcare System
Stanford Report, October 24, 2007

NOW on the News, PBS, “Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel on Universal Health Care”, web interview on April 13, 2007, http://www.pbs.org/now/news/315.html

A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn't Simplify It
Robert H. Frank
NY Times, February 15, 2007

Public Support for National Health Insurance: The Role of Attitudes and Beliefs, Seminar Series with CHP/PCOR Stanford’s Victor R. Fuchs, M. Kate Bundorf

Making Health Care the Engine That Drives the Economy
Gina Kolata
NY Times, August 22, 2006

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Articles written for FRESH-Thinking Workshops

Medicare Advantage – Past, Present, and Future, a workshop paper (pdf)
Jay Crosson, M.D., Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
John Bertko, FSA, Brookings Institution

The Independent Payment Advisory Board (pdf)
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Medicare Workshop: The Independent Payment Advisory Board Discussion Summary (pdf)
William Scanlon

Comprehensive Health Care Reform and Biomedical Innovation
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.

Funding Health Care For All Americans--An Economic Perspective
Victor R. Fuchs and John B. Shoven

Plan Competition for Health System Efficiency
Alan M. Garber, Dana P. Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla

Legal and Regulatory Issues Presented by Health Care Reform
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Insurance and Payment for Health Care
Harold S. Luft

The Regulatory Component of Health Care Reform
Roger G. Noll

The Politics of Paying for Health Reform--Zombies, Payroll Taxes, and the Holy Grail
Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D.

Health Technology Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness: Recommendations for Improving Health Care Value in the United States (PowerPoint file)
Steven D. Pearson

Transition to Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Alice M. Rivlin

Accountable Care Systems for Comprehensive Healthcare Reform
Stephen M. Shortell and Lawrence Casalino

Outcome Assessment and Health Care Reform
Jonathan Skinner, Amitabh Chandra, and Elliott Fisher

Health System Reform: The Value and Price of Innovation
Samuel O. Thier, M.D.

Risk Equalization in an Individual Health Insurance Market: The Only Escape from the Tradeoff Between Affordability, Efficiency And Selection: The Netherlands as a Case Study
Wynand PMM van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut

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Comments commissioned by FRESH-Thinking for Workshops

Commentaries for The Technology and Outcomes Assessment Workshop, February 8-9, 2007

Osnat Luxenburg
Technology Assessment and Setting Priorities for the Adoption on a National Level: The Israeli Experience

Technology and Outcomes Assessment: A View from Both Sides of the Atlantic
Commentary on:
Skinner J., Chandra A., and Fisher E. The Role of Outcomes Assessment in Health Care Reform
Pearson S. Health Technology Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness: Recommendations for Improving Health Care Value in the United States

By Stirling Bryan (University of Birmingham, UK) and Marthe Gold (City University of New York Medical School, New York, NY)

Sharon Levine, M.D., Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
The Role of Technology Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness Research in Increasing Health Care Value in the U.S.—Commentary and a Perspective from an Integrated Delivery System

Dana Goldman
Outcome Assessment and Health Care Reform by Jonathan Skinner, Amitabh Chandra, and Elliott Fisher

Commentaries for The Organization and Delivery of Care and Payment to Providers Workshop, March 1-2, 2007

Denis Cortese, M.D.
Comments on Papers by Steven Shortell--Larry Casalino and Harold Luft
Prepared for FRESH-Thinking

David Meltzer
Comments on paper by Steven Shortell and Lawrence Casalino and paper by Hal Luft for the Focused Research on Efficient, Secure Healthcare (FRESH) Thinking Conference session on The Organization and Delivery of Care and Payment to Providers

Joseph P. Newhouse
Comments on papers by Steven Shortell and Lawrence Casalino and paper by Harold Luft

Commentaries for The Structure of Health Plan Competition Workshop, May 3-4, 2007

Alain Enthoven, Ph.D.
Comments on “Risk Equalization in an Individual Health Insurance Market: The Only Escape from the Tradeoff Between Affordability, Efficiency and Selection: The Netherlands as a Case Study.”

Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
"Cutting Health Reform Down To Size”

Gabi Bin Nun
Changes in the Financing of Health Care After the Introduction of the National Health Insurance Law (NHIL) in Israel
Health Plan Competition – Comprehensive Health Care Reform, Comments on “Risk Equalization In an Individual Health Insurance Market: The Only Escape from the Tradeoff Between Affordability, Efficiency and Selection: The Netherlands as a Case Study”

Commentaries for Funding of Health Care For All Americans, October 18-19, 2007

Alan J. Auerbach
Commentary Auerbach Funding Health Care for All Americans

Peter R. Fisher
Commentary Fisher Comments on Fuchs & Shoven
Commentary Fisher Comments on Oberlander

Alice M. Rivlin
Commentary Rivlin on Funding Health Care

Commentaries for Legal and Regulatory Reform, November 29-30, 2007

Rep. Jim Cooper
Fresh Thinking Response (Cooper on Jost)

Rep. Jim Cooper
Response to Professor Noll

Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Southern California
Comments on Jost “Legal and Regulatory Issues Presented by Health Care Reform” and Noll
“The Regulatory Component of Health Care Reform”

Mark A. Hall
Health Law: A Constitution-Free Zone (Commentary on Jost and Noll)

William M. Sage, M.D., J.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Comments on FRESH Thinking Papers

Commentaries for Innovations in a Cost-Constrained Environment, February 28-29, 2008

Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D.
Biomedical Innovation and Heath System Reform: Comments on papers by Profs. Samuel O. Thier and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

B. Michael Silber, Ph.D.
Workshop on Bio-medical and Organizational Innovations in a Cost-conscious Environment: Comments on Manuscripts by Professors Samuel O. Thier and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Commentaries for Transitions Workshop, January 8- 9, 2009

David T. Ellwood
Discussant Comments on Alice Rivlin’s “Transition to Comprehensive Health Care Reform”

A. Enthoven
Response to Alice Rivlin's Paper

Jon Kingsdale
Comments on Alice Rivlin’s “Transition to Comprehensive Health Care Reform”

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Articles by Fuchs

V. Fuchs, Health Care Reform, a Collection of Published Articles on U.S. Health Care Reform

V. Fuchs, New Priorities for Future Biomedical Innovations, New England Journal of Medicine vol. 363, 8 (2010)

V. Fuchs, Health Care Is Different—That’s Why Expenditures Matter, JAMA, May 2010

V. Fuchs, Health Reform: Getting the Essentials Right, Health Affairs, January 16, 2009

V. Fuchs, Health Care Reform - Why So Much Talk and So Little Action?, New England Journal of Medicine, January 15, 2009

E. Emanuel and V. Fuchs, Who Really Pays for Health Care?, Chicago Tribune.com, March 27, 2008

E. Emanuel and V. Fuchs, Who Really Pays for Health Care? The Myth of "Shared Responsibility", Journal of the American Medical Association, March 5, 2008.

V. Fuchs, What Are The Prospects For Enduring Comprehensive Health Care Reform?, Perspectives, November / December 2007

E. Emanuel and V. Fuchs, A Comprehensive Cure: Universal Health Care Vouchers, published by the Hamilton Project and the Brookings Institute, July 2007

E. Emanuel and V. Fuchs, Beyond Health-Care Band-Aids, Op-Ed, Washington Post,
Wednesday, February 7, 2007; A17

E. Emanuel and V. Fuchs, A New Health Care Plan, The New Republic, February 19, 2007

B. J. Krohmal and E. Emanuel, Payment and Access: The Ethics of a Two-Tiered Health Care System. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007

E. Emanuel and V. Fuchs, How to Cure U.S. Health Care, Fortune, November 13, 2006; 78.

E. Enthoven and V. Fuchs., Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future. Health Affairs, Nov.-Dec. 2006

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