Description: This article outlines what the author learned from the Sixth Annual Quality Colloquium at Harvard. From Health Watch, January 2008, Issue No. 57.

Description: Court cases demonstrating how ERISA Preemption Clause makes it difficult for members to sue Managed Care Organizations MCOs. Issue No. 41.

Description: On January 1, 2014, many states will be enrolling newly eligible parents and childless adults into the Medicaid program. This article compares the expansion population to the current Medicaid population.

Description: This article introduces a research report that studied the relationship of nontraditional variables with health costs.

Description: CHCS is a nonprofit policy center focused on improving American health outcomes, particularly for low-income people, including payment & delivery system reform.

Description: Ian Duncan argues that there is no crisis in American health care.

Description: This interview article summarizes the work being done by a Health Section Strategic Initiative Committee.

Description: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: Review of a research project, co-sponsored by the SOA, which examined 83 organizations and over 150 programs that measure the quality and efficiency of hospitals and physicians.

Description: Why health care inflation exceeds the Consumer Price Index CPI due to tax implications. Issue No. 37.