Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, Emory University
www.emory.edu/policysolutions
With a $600,000 grant provided by PGPF, the Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions at Emory University is establishing a Center for Entitlement Reform, focusing on conducting research and analysis related to health care in order to (a) outline the factors responsible for the rise in federal entitlement spending; (b) 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 (c) present the options to key policy makers in Congress and the White House, along with state-level governments, business leaders, the public and the media.
Troubling statistics about the rise in federal entitlement spending on health care are well known, but solutions have proven elusive. Most of the options for slowing the rise in federal health care spending have focused on cost shifting and include restricting beneficiary eligibility (by increasing both age and income) thresholds. These approaches do not address underlying factors responsible for the rise in health care spending. The Center will seek to study and provide innovative, evidence-based approaches to addressing the pending crisis. The goal of the Center is to use the framework outlined above to inform the health care policy of the incoming administration and 111th Congress in early 2009.
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