FRESH-Thinking

Focused Research on Efficient, Secure Healthcare

Publications

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In the News

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

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

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

A Public Option Isn’t a Curse, or a Cure
New York Times, August 15, 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, MD, PhD
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
By 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, By Gina Kolata, NY Times, August 22, 2006

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Articles written for FRESH-Thinking Workshops

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

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

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

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

Harold S. Luft
Insurance and Payment for Health Care

Roger G. Noll
The Regulatory Component of Health Care Reform

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

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

by Alice M. Rivlin
Transition to Comprehensive Health Care Reform

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

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

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

Wynand PMM van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut
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

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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, MD
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, MD, JD, 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 and Emanuel

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

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

Emanuel E., Fuchs V., A NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN, The New Republic, February 19, 2007

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

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

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

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