November 12, 2009 -
Watch this Commonwealth Fund E-Forum, with slides and audio, from an Oct. 19 briefing in Washington D.C., where Commonwealth Fund vice president Cathy Schoen presented the findings of the 2009 State Scorecard. Other speakers were Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Heather Mizeur, a member of the Maryland General Assembly. Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, moderated.
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October 23, 2009 -
Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis was interviewed recently by Richard D. Heffner for his TV show, "The Open Mind." Watch a video of the interview, which focuses on health reform, on the Fund Web site, or check local listings to watch on public television.
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October 23, 2009 -
Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis was interviewed recently by Richard D. Heffner for his series on "Reality-Based Health Care for Americans" for the TV show, "The Open Mind." See Part 2 for the second half of the interview.
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October 23, 2009 -
In this Commonwealth Fund E-Forum, which offers audio and slides, Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis reviews the key provisions of the 2009 congressional health reform bills, as well as their potential impact on costs and coverage.
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October 9, 2009 -
The Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard, 2009 finds that quality and other measures of care vary widely from state to state. In this video, Commonwealth Fund senior vice president Cathy Schoen and Fund president Karen Davis explain the findings.
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September 17, 2009 -
This Alliance for Health Reform/Commonwealth Fund briefing, held July 31, 2009, looked at the options, including health system savings and new revenues, to finance coverage expansions and delivery system and insurance market reforms. Panelists were: Uwe Reinhardt, health economist at Princeton University; Bill Hoagland, vice president for public policy at CIGNA and former Senate Budget Committee staff director; Mark McClellan, senior fellow and director of the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform at the Brookings Institution; and Chris Jennings, president of Jennings Policy Strategies and former senior health policy advisor to President Clinton. Ed Howard of the Alliance and Rachel Nuzum of The Commonwealth Fund moderated. Open the slide show to see synched audio, slides, and a transcript.
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September 11, 2009 -
This video, created by the Rhode Island Department of Health, and sponsored, in part, by The Commonwealth Fund, shares the thoughts of surveyors who participated in the Individualized Care Pilot, which used the mandated federal regulatory survey process to motivate and enable the state's nursing homes to fully realize the potential for resident-centered care inherent in the Nursing Home Reform Law.
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July 28, 2009 -
Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of the U.K.'s Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), observes that NICE has "increased the new drugs available to patients and patients are getting a lot of benefit from it....So we're not saving anybody any money, we’re just making sure the money is well spent."
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July 28, 2009 -
Peter Sawicki, M.D., Ph.D., director of Germany's Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, reviews how his agency aims to inform policy, as well as patients and doctors.
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July 28, 2009 -
Laurent Degos, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the French National Authority for Health (HAS), outlines the four principles of comparative effectiveness research in France, beginning with the principle that comparative effectiveness research is independent of decision makers and payers.
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July 28, 2009 -
Kalipso Chalkidou, M.D., Ph.D., director of policy consulting for the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), discusses how NICE works and highlights the importance getting "buy-in" from industry, the public, health professionals, and others, "bringing together people and trying to involve them meaningfully."
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July 28, 2009 -
Professor Emeritus Lloyd Sansom, AO, Chair, of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), looks at how comparative effectiveness research helps give Australians "access to drugs that work at a cost they as individuals and we as a country can afford."
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July 21, 2009 -
A new Commonwealth Fund study finds that the individual insurance market is not working for Americans. More than three-fourths of people say they don't buy insurance because they can't afford the premiums and when they do purchase coverage, it is often inadequate. The creation of national health insurance exchange, where people could choose from a range of affordable insurance plans with minimum standard benefits, could transform the marketplace.
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June 24, 2009 -
Vidhya Alakeson, a 2006–07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy from the U.K., was placed in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this video, she discusses her Harkness project, "Transforming Healthcare into a Patient-Led Service: Giving Individuals Greater Choice and Control over Their Treatment."
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June 24, 2009 -
Katharina Janus, a 2006–07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy from Germany, is an assistant professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In this video, she discusses the impact of the Harkness Fellowship on her research and career.
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