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NEW CENTER FOR ENTITLEMENT REFORM WEB SITE- NEW!
Emory's Center for Entitlement Reform has launched its new web site.
Visit it now at: http://entitlementreform.emory.edu/
TODAY'S ECONOMIC CRISIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICE BERG
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation's new ad campaign explains our current federal burden — now up to $56.4 trillion, or $483,000 per U.S. household — and calls on Congress to make bipartisan efforts to address the nation's deteriorating financial condition. Share the Tip of the Iceberg Ad with your friends:
IAPS RECEIVES $600,000 GRANT TO ESTABLISH CENTER FOR ENTITLEMENT REFORM
Emory University’s Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions (IAPS) has received a $600,000, one-year grant from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to establish a Center for Entitlement Reform. The new Center for Entitlement Reform is one of only a few university-based research centers in the U.S. focusing on federal health care entitlement reform. The Center will conduct research and analysis to:
1) outline the factors responsible for the rise in federal entitlement spending, specifically focused on public health insurance programs
2) link new approaches in financing, payment, and care delivery for achieving better value (lower costs with the same or better outcomes) based on factors driving higher spending; and,
3) present the options to key policymakers in the U.S. Congress and White House, along with state-level governments, business leaders, the public and the media.
Public health policy researcher Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, will direct the new Center. Additional staffing for the Center will include faculty from Emory’s Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, as well as a select group of IAPS fellows chosen from some of the nation’s foremost and emerging thought leaders in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
The Center is expecting to complete its groundwork research and analysis and develop preliminary policy options—focused on reducing the rising prevalence of diagnosed and treated disease, more effective approaches for managing chronically ill patients, and approaches for reducing the wide variation in per capita spending—by the end of calendar year 2008.
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