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• Organizational Research
• Insurance Coverage: Is a Reported Decline in the Number of Uninsured Good News?
• Accessible Care
• Health Insurance Benefits: A Moving Target
• Individual Health Insurance Market as a Mechanism for Increasing Access to Health Insurance
• Disparities in Health and in Health Care
• Health Care Costs—Challenges and Solutions
• Challenges Facing the Health Care Safety Net
• Preventing Disease in a Categorically Funded Public Health Care System
• Medicare Advantage Under Scrutiny
• Cost-Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness: Strategies for Maximizing Value of Health Spending?
• Medicare Part D: Strengths & Weaknesses
• Rising Health Care Costs and the Challenge of Coverage
• The Debate Over Employment-Based Health Benefits
• SCHIP Reauthorization – Expand, Reduce, or Maintain?
• Individual Insurance Market and Tax Credits
• Universal Coverage- One State at a Time
• The Evolution and Treatment of Disease over Time
• State Flexibility: The Answer to Medicaid's Woes?
• Non-Profit Hospital Community Benefits Under Review
• Rationing Health Care: Is the United States Willing?
• The Informed Patient: Do Consumers Have the Tools To Make Healthcare Decisions?
• Public Health Preparedness: Are Public Health Systems Ready for a Disaster?
• The Current Malpractice Crisis Cycle?
• Health Insurance and Small Businesses: Ways to Make Coverage More Affordable
• State High Risk Pools
• Challenges of the Public Health System
• Dual Eligibles Face Significant Prescription Drug Changes
• Medicare Part D: Enrollment and Implementation
• Health Information Technology on the Radar Screen of Policymakers
• Developing Pay-for-Performance Programs
• Long-Term Care Housing and Service Evolution Addresses “Longevity Revolution”
• Estimating the Number of Americans without Health Insurance: Not a Simple Count
• Genetic Information Meets Insurance Underwriting
• Medicare Part D: Can the new outpatient prescription drug benefit effectively manage costs?
• Planning to Retire Early? Better Think About Health Care Costs
• Malpractice Reform: Solution to our Health Care Cost Problem?
• Medicare Modernization Act Offers New End-of-Life Care Provisions
• Health Care: Agenda for the New Administration
• Coverage Decisions: How is Evidence Used? Why the Variation?
• FTC/DOJ Administer a Dose of Competition
• Do Other Countries Hold the Cure to Rising Prescription Drug Costs?
• Reviving the Patient Rights Debate
• Long-Term Care – Finally on its Way to the Altar?
• Association Health Plans Revisited: Jump-Starting Congress' Health Agenda
• Becoming an Educated Health Care Consumer in an Information-Filled World
• Will the New Medicare Legislation Stem the Flow of Eroding Benefits?
• Employer Responses to Rising Health Insurance Costs
• Health Savings Accounts —A Sleeping Giant?
• Rising Malpractice Premiums: Will Your Doctor Be Available If You Get Sick?
• Hospital and Health Plan Conversions
• Medicare Drug Bill Poised to Pass: What's Next?
• Long-Term Care - Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride
• Association Health Plans - A Remedy for Covering the Uninsured?
• Managed Care Plans Challenge Any Willing Provider Laws
• Disease Management in Medicare: The Solution to Escalating Costs?
• Physician Payment under Medicare

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  • Kathleen Carey, Ph.D.
  • Lisa H. Clemans-Cope, Ph.D. and Cynthia D. Perry, Ph.D.
  • Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D.
  • J. William (Bill) Thomas, Ph.D., M.B.A.
  • Mark A. Hall, J.D.
  • David Grembowski, Ph.D.
  • Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D.
  • Jill R. Horwitz, Ph.D., J.D.
  • Julia F. Costich, J.D., Ph.D.
  • Susan H. Busch, Ph.D.
  • Korbin Liu, Sc.D.
  • Louis F. Rossiter, Ph.D.
  • Bruce Stuart , Ph.D.
  • Glen Mays, M.P.H., Ph.D.
  • Jack Meyer, Ph.D.
  • Steven Pizer, Ph.D.
  • Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
  • Jeanene Smith, M.D.
  • Michael Stoto, Ph.D.
  • Christopher Murtaugh
  • Richard A. Rettig, Ph.D.
  • R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A.
  • Kevin G. Volpp, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Curtis Florence, Ph.D.
  • Anthony Lo Sasso, Ph.D.
  • Katherine Swartz, Ph.D.
  • Thomas C. Buchmueller, Ph.D.
  • Jinnet Briggs Fowles, Ph.D.
• Glenn Melnick, Ph.D.
• Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., M.B.A.
• Jon Christianson, Ph.D.
• Michael A. Morrisey, Ph.D.
• Kathleen Thiede Call, Ph.D.
• John F. Hoadley, Ph.D.
• Gloria J. Bazzoli, Ph.D.
• Michael Chernew, Ph.D.
• Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D.
• Randall R. Bovbjerg, J.D.
• Karen Pollitz, M.P.P.
• Joel C. Cantor, Sc.D.
• Mila Kofman, J.D.
• James C. Robinson, Ph.D.
• Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
• Andrew Coburn, Ph.D.
• Madonna Harrington Meyer, Ph.D.
• Peter J. Neumann, Sc.D.
• Mary Zimmerman, Ph.D.
• Sandra L. Decker, Ph.D.
• Mark Doescher, M.D., Barry Saver, M.D.
• Daniel Polsky, Ph.D.
• Donald Taylor, Ph.D.
• Susan Bartlett Foote, J.D.
• Gail Jensen, Ph.D.
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• Lisa Dubay, Sc.M. and Genevieve M. Kenney, Ph.D.
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• Willard Manning, Ph.D.
• Judith H. Hibbard, Dr.P.H.
• James Maxwell
• Gary J. Young, J.D., Ph.D.
• David Gifford, M.D.
• Douglas A. Conrad, Ph.D.
• Richard Kravitz, M.D.
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• Laurence C. Baker, Ph.D.
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  • Cyber Seminar--Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Potential, Pitfalls, and Policy Issue
    
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  • Cyber Seminar--Pregnant and Poor: Did Medicaid and Welfare Policy Changes Improve Care for these Women as Intended?
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  • Consumer-Driven Health Care: Evidence from the Field
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  • When Public Payment Declines, Does Cost-Shifting Occur? Hospital and Physician Responses
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    • Kaiser Webcast
  • Defining "Defined Contribution" 2002: Research and Practice
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  • Financing End-of-Life Care: Challenges for an Aging Population
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