Digital Archive: Health

October 2018 | Changing Medicare Eligibility: Program Design Challenges – Paul N. Van de Water 


August 2017 | Retirement (In)Security for Today’s Workers – William J. Arnone


June 2017 | Infographic: How Could Congressional Medicaid Cuts Affect Americans? – Benjamin W. Veghte and Alexandra L. Bradley


June 2017 | Medicaid and Federal Funding Caps: Implications for Access to Health Care and Long-Term Services and Supports among Vulnerable Americans – Benjamin W. Veghte and Alexandra L. Bradley 


June 2017 | Medicaid’s Role in Improving the Social Determinants of Health: Opportunities for States – Debra J. Lipson


January 2017 | Strengthening Medicaid as a Critical Lever in Building a Culture of Health – Sara Rosenbaum, Trish Riley, Alexandra L. Bradley, Benjamin W. Veghte, and Jill Rosenthal 


January 2017 | Report to the New Leadership and the American People on Social Insurance and Inequality – Benjamin W. Veghte, Elliot Schreur, and Alexandra L. Bradley (eds.)

Part I: Strengthening Workers’ Risk Protections

Part II: Modernizing Workers’ Social Insurance Protections


March 2016 | Insights from the Top: An Oral History of Medicare and Medicaid


January 2016 | The Aging Network in Transition: Hanging in the Balance – Anne Montgomery and Elizabeth Blair


July 2015 | The Working Together Challenge: The Results


April 2015 | Addressing Pricing Power in Health Care Markets: Principles and Policy Options to Strengthen and Shape Markets


February 2015 | Integrated Delivery Networks: In Search of Benefits and Market Effects – Jeff Goldsmith, Lawton R. Burns, Aditi Sen, and Trevor Goldmith


November 2014 | Concurrent Palliative and Curative Services: The Next Step in Evolution of Medicare Hospice Care – Janet H. Forlini and Lee Goldberg


September 2014 | VIDEO: Demystifying Medicare


July 2014 | Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2014 Trustees Report – Sabiha Zainulbhai and Lee Goldberg


July 2014 | State Policies on Provider Market Power – Suzanne Delbanco and Shaudi Bazzaz


June 2014 | Dignity-Driven Decision Making: What is it and Why is it so Important? – Anne H. Montgomery


March 2014 | Assessing Care Integration for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries: A Review of Quality Measures Chosen by States in the Financial Alignment Initiative – Sabiha Zainulbhai, Lee Goldberg, Weiwen Ng, and Anne Montgomery


February 2014 | Respecting Choices: A Case Study for Incorporating Advance Care Planning into Person and Family- Centered Health Care Delivery – Janet H. Forlini and Lee Goldberg 


December 2013 | Getting the Treatment You Want: Is Anyone Listening? – Anne Montgomery


June 2013 | Social Insurance: A Critical Base for Financing Long-Term Services and Supports


May 2013 | Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2013 Trustees Report – Sabiha Zainulbhai and Lee Goldberg


October 2012 | Is Medicare Solvent and Sustainable? – Lee Goldberg and Sabiha Zainulbhai


October 2012 | Health Care Spending Trends: Medicare and Private Health Insurance – Lee Goldberg and Sabiha Zainulbhai


September 2012 | Establishing the Technology Infrastructure for Health Insurance Exchanges Under the Affordable Care Act: Initial Observations from the “Early Innovator” and Advanced Implementation States – Michael Tutty and Jay Himmelstein


May 2012 | Plan Management: Issues for State, Partnership and Federally Facilitated Health Insurance Exchanges – Sabrina Corlette, JoAnn Volk, and Kevin Lucia


April 2012 | Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2012 Trustees Report – Sabiha Zainulbhai and Lee Goldberg


January 2012 | Building a Relationship between Medicaid, the Exchange and the Individual Insurance Market – Sara Rosenbaum and Trish Riley


December 2011 | Federally-Facilitated Exchanges and the Continuum of State Options – Deborah Bachrach and Patricia Boozang


June 2011 | Active Purchasing for Health Insurance Exchanges: An Analysis of Options – Sabrina Corlette and JoAnn Volk


March 2011 | Testimony of Lee Goldberg Before the Exchanges (B) Subgroup of the NAIC – Lee Goldberg 


January 2011 | Designing an Exchange: A Toolkit for State Policymakers – Study Panel on Health Insurance Exchanges


January 2011 | Governance Issues for Health Insurance Exchanges – Paul N. Van de Water and Richard P. Nathan


July 2009 | Administrative Solutions in Health Reform – Report of the Study Panel on Administrative Issues in Expanding Access to Health Care 


July 2009 | FACT SHEET: Administrative Issues in Expanding Access to Health Care – Recommendations of a NAPA/NASI Study Panel


April 2009 | Sharing Risks in a New Era of Responsibility – Jacob S. Hacker


February 2009 | Social Insurance: Two Visions for the Future


February 2009 | How Can We Improve Quality and Control Growth in Health Spending?


January 2009 | What Roles Will Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Fill?


January 2009 | How Will We Pay for the Public Programs We Want?


January 2009 | Curbing High Health Costs: The Linchpin for Successful Health Reform – John Sweeney 


January 2009 | Protecting the Vulnerable, Spurring the Economy: Social Insurance in an Economic Downturn – E.J. Dionne


January 2009 | Re-Figuring Federalism: Nation and State in Health Reform’s Next Round – Lawrence D. Brown


January 2009 | Designing Administrative Organizations for Health Reform – Paul N. Van de Water


January 2009 | Recent Changes in Dutch Health Insurance: Individual Mandate or Social Insurance? – Kieke Okma 


January 2009 | Administering Health Insurance Mandates – C. Eugene Steuerle and Paul N. Van de Water 


January 2009 | Restructuring Health Insurance Markets – Elliot K. Wicks 


January 2009 | Simplifying Administration of Health Insurance – Mark Merlis


January 2009 | The Regulation of Private Health Insurance – Timothy S. Jost


January 2009 | Health Care Cost Containment and Coverage Expansion – Mark Merlis


January 2009 | Designing a Mixed Public and Private System for the Health Insurance Market – Bryan Dowd


March 2008 | Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2008 Trustees Report – Paul N. Van de Water


March 2008 | Achieving Universal Participation in Social Insurance Systems – Paul N. Van de Water


February 2008 | Can an Individual Mandate Promote Individual Responsibility? 


February 2008 | Is Single Payer Right for America? – Len Nichols


January 2008 | What Should Be the Role of Employers in Delivering Health Insurance? – 


January 2008 | How Should We Balance Affordability and Comprehensive Coverage?” – 


January 2008 | How Should the Private Insurance Market be Structured in a Universal System of Coverage? – 


September 2007 | Social Insurance Benefits Need Not Limit Economic Growth: New Evidence – Report of a seminar with Peter H. Lindert and others, prepared by Joni Lavery


April 2007 | Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2007 Trustess Report – Paul N. Van de Water


February 2007 | American Health Coverage at a Crossroads


October 2006 | Strengthening Medicare’s Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities – Bruce C. Vladeck, Paul N. Van de Water, and June Eichner (eds.) Report of the Study Panel on Medicare and Disparities


October 2006 | Improving Medicare’s Data on Race and Ethnicity – A. Marshall McBean


October 2006 | Medicare, the National Quality Infrastructure, and Health Disparities– Lawrence P. Casalino


September 2006 | Social Welfare Spending and Economic Growth – Peter Lindert


September 2006 | U.S. Health Care Challenges – Jack C. Ebeler


September 2006 | Commentary at Family Well-Being Seminar – Rudolph G. Penner


September 2006 | Family Well-Being, Public Policy, and Economic Growth: Lessons from History and Insights for the Future


 June 2006 | Improving the Medicare Savings Programs – Jack C. Ebeler, Paul N. Van de Water, and Cyanne Demchak (eds.); Report of the Study Panel on Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibles


May 2006 | Medicare Finances: Findings of the 2006 Trustees Report – Paul N. Van de Water and Joni Lavery


March 2006 | Budget Estimates for Selected Medicare Savings Program Reform Proposals – Jim Verdier


February 2006 | Current Processes for Enrolling Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibles in Medicare Savings Programs and Efforts to Increase Enrollment – Elizabeth Cusick and Ken Nibali


January 2006 | Disability and Early Retirement Among Aging Boomers – Ralph Smith


January 2006 | New Evidence on Health Coverage for Aging Boomers – Sara Collins


January 2006 | Strategies to Fill Gaps and Improve Health Coverage before Medicare – Paul Van de Water


December 2005 | Eligibility Standards for Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibles: Issues and Options for Reform – Mark Merlis 


October 2005 | Strengthening Medicare’s Role in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Summary – Study Panel on Medicare and Disparities


May 2005 | Individual Physicians or Organized Processes: How Can Disparities in Clinical Care Be Reduced? – Lawrence P. Casalino


May 2005 | Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medicare: What the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Can, and Should, Do – Timothy S. Jost


May 2005 | Payment and Participation: A Renaissance for Medicare’s Private Health Plans? – Reginald D. Williams II 


January 2005 | Update on Medicare Chronic Care Improvement Programs – Sandra Foote


January 2005 | Beneficiary Decision-Making & the New Prescription Drug Benefit – Judith Hibbard


January 2005 | Medicare Modernization Act: Medicare & You Education Campaign – Michael McMullan


January 2005 | Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Educating Beneficiaries – Tricia Neuman


January 2005 | Is There a Better Way to Reduce Growth in Medicare Spending? – Joseph Antos


January 2005 | Waiting for Medicare: Disparities in Health Care Experiences of Adults Age 50-64 Compared to Adults 65 and Older – Cathy Schoen


January 2005 | The Continuing Erosion of Health Benefits Among Workers with Low Wages – Sara Collins


January 2005 | The Disability Community’s Perspective – Ethel Zelenske


January 2005 | Improving the Environment for Competition: More Efficient Purchasing in Traditional Medicare – Bill Scanlon


January 2005 | Being Without Health Insurance: An Increasing Problem for the Middle-Class – Katherine Swartz


January 2005 | Medicare’s Long-term Spending and Financing – Nancy-Ann DeParle


January 2005 | Experience with Disease Management in the Commercial Sector – Christopher Coloian


January 2005 | The MMA: On the Road to Implementation – Drew Altman


January 2005 | All About HSAs – Roy Ramthun


January 2005 | High Deductible Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: For Better or Worse? – Karen Davis


January 2005 | Health Savings Accounts and Trends in Employee Health Benefits – Charles Klippel


January 2005 | The Future of Medicare Advantage – Jack Ebeler


January 2005 | Practical Issues for PBMs in Medicare Part D – Robert Atlas


January 2005 | The Future of Medicare Advantage: Will Past Be Prologue? – Marsha Gold


January 2005 | The Future of Private Plan Contracting In Medicare – A Reprise – Robert Berenson


January 2005 | Medicare Part D: Cost Management Issues – Jack Hoadley


January 2005 | The Part D Benefit: Casualties Coming? – Robert Hayes


January 2005 | The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and PBMs – Barrett Toan


January 2005 | Challenges of Serving Low-income Medicare Beneficiaries: Impact of Cost Sharing – Cindy Parks Thomas 


January 2005 | Drug Prices in Canada and the U.S.: More Than Meets the Eye? – Wayne Critchley


December 2004 | Medicare Race and Ethnicity Data – A. Marshall McBean


October 2004 | The Unique Needs of Medicare Beneficiaries – Reginald D. Williams II


April 2004 | Long-Term Care Financing: Models and Issues – Mark Merlis 


January 2004 | When Should Medicare Coverage Begin? – Richard W. Johnson 


November 2003 | The Role of Private Health Plans in Medicare: Lessons from the Past, Looking to the Future 


April 2003 | Restructuring Medicare: A Synthesis of the NASI Medicare Projects – Reginald D. Williams II 


January 2003 | Medicare in the 21st Century: Building a Better Chronic Care System


July 2002 | Matching Problems with Solutions: Improving Medicare’s Governance and Management


April 2002 | Round Pegs and Square Holes: Medicare and Chronic Care – Bruce C. Vladeck


April 2002 | Confronting the Barriers to Chronic Care Management in Medicare – Robert A. Berenson, M.D. 


December 2001 | Enhancing Functioning and Quality of Life Under Medicare – Robert L. Kane, M.D., and Rosalie A. Kane 


August 2001 | Costs and Financing of Medicare Enrollees Living with HIV/AIDS in California – June Eichner and James G. Kahn 


July 2001 | Coordination of Health Coverage for Medicare Enrollees: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS – June Eichner 


June 2001 | Recent Trends in Retiree Health Benefits and The Role of COBRA Coverage – Paul Fronstin and Virginia Reno 


January 2001 | Health Insurance Coverage of People in the Ten Years Before Medicare Eligibility – Katherine Swartz and Betsey Stevenson


January 2001| Reflections on Implementing Medicare (Second Edition) – Michael Gluck and Virginia Reno (eds.) Study Panel on Medicare Management and Governance


December 2000 | Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce – Virginia Reno and June Eichner


September 2000 | Financing Medicare’s Future – Michael Gluck and Marilyn Moon (eds.)


January 2000 | Restructuring Medicare: Next Steps – Jill Bernstein and Robert D. Reischauer (eds.)


November 1999 | Supplemental Health Insurance for Medicare Beneficiaries – Thomas Rice and Jill Bernstein


September 1999 | The Financing Needs of a Restructured Medicare Program – National Academy of Social Insurance Study Panel on Medicare Financing


May 1999 | Should Higher Income Beneficiaries Pay More For Medicare? – Jill Bernstein


May 1999 | Individualizing Medicare – Deborah J. Chollet 


May 1999 | The Economic Status of the Elderly – Robert L. Clark and Joseph F. Quinn 


April 1999 | A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit – Michael E. Gluck 


February 1999 | Medicare and the American Social Contract – Final Report of the Study Panel on Medicare’s Larger Social Role 


April 1998 | Structuring Medicare Choices – Final Report of the Study Panel on Capitation and Choice


January 1998 | From a Generation Behind to a Generation Ahead: Transforming Traditional Medicare – Final Report of the Study Panel on Fee-for-Service Medicare


March 1997 | Securing Medicare’s Future: What are the Issues? – Interim Report of the Medicare Steering Committee


1996 | Balancing Security and Opportunity: The Challenge of Disability Income Policy – Jerry L. Mashaw and Virginia P. Reno, eds