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Research
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Our active research projects are of three types: Health Policy Research, Health Reform Implementation, and Health Policy Communication. Click Active Projects for descriptions of each of our current projects.
The purpose of health policy research is to improve health policy debates, policy development, and implementation. CHPRE work is directed at the national, state, and local levels, for all three have unique roles to play in enabling health policy to improve real people’s lives. We research both health insurance and delivery system topics, wherein population health is an increasingly important focus since comprehensive health reform has become national policy (at least for now).
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Presentations
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Courtesy of JLME
Government Intervention in Health Care Markets Is Practical, Necessary, and Morally Sound
This essay makes the affirmative case for health reform by expounding on three fundamental points: (1) one moral case for expanding access to coverage and care to all is grounded in scriptural concepts of community and mutual obligation which continue to inform the American pursuit of justice; (2) the structure of PPACA springs from an appreciation of and approach to channeling market forces that was developed and proposed by a coalition of moderate and conservative Republican U.S. senators almost 20 years ago; (3) the most humane path to a better and more sustainable health system lies in implementing (and amending where appropriate) PPACA as fast and fully as we can. The purpose of this essay is to articulate why it is not possible to make our health system better, sustainable and serve us all without government playing specific and limited but absolutely crucial catalytic roles.
Click this link for the complete article: Government Intervention in Health Care Markets Is Practical, Necessary, and Morally Sound
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Latest News
Friday, October 12th, 2012
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a snapshot of how health-care related issues shape the 2012 election to aid voters this November. This snapshot is one sheet full of graphs and charts that breakdown virtually all health care-related issues, deciphering information that would interest potential voters “including the percentage of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who named health care or the economy as the issue that is most important in determining their vote for President” [1]
You can see the snapshot tool here and here.
