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US Health Care Reform

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  • Bending the Cost Growth Curve and Expanding Coverage: Lessons from Germany’s All‐Payer System <br><small>A Tribute to Uwe Reinhardt</small>

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    Bending the Cost Growth Curve and Expanding Coverage: Lessons from Germany’s All‐Payer System
    A Tribute to Uwe Reinhardt

    February 2020 Tsung-Mei Cheng

    In a Perspective, Tsung-Mei Cheng of Princeton pays tribute to her late husband by bringing attention to an often-overlooked path to universal health coverage that he strongly supported: Germany’s all-payer system. More

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    Washington State’s Quasi-Public Option

    December 2019 James C. Capretta

    As with long-term care and other health care issues, Washington State is out in front with its plan to test a public option (of sorts) in the… More

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    Shareholders, Stakeholders, and US Health Care

    November 2019 John E. McDonough

    Last summer, The Business Roundtable, the nonprofit association of CEOs of major US companies, issued a statement calling the interests of workers, customers, communities, and other stakeholders as important as the interests of a company’s shareholders. In a new Opinion, Harvard University’s John E. McDonough says the change is noteworthy. Yet he observes that only 11 of the 183 CEOs who signed the statement head organizations in the health sector. More