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Fellow Harold Pollack

Fellow Harold Pollack focuses on issues of Economics and Inequality. He is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago.

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• Blog Post: The Snapshot: Public Says Keep Medicare the Way It Is!
  Polls show that the majority of the public wants to keep Medicare the way it is.
  Aug 27, 2012
• Blog Post: The Good News in the CBO’s Medicare Reform Studies
  Supporters of health care reform were discouraged this week by a Congressional Budget Office report that synthesized research on Medicare pilot...
  Jan 20, 2012
• Blog Post: When will Republicans hold adult conversations about end-of-life care? After the Obama presidency
  I spoke the other day with a friend about his wife’s difficult final illness. Her care was well-managed, but her family experienced...
  Oct 12, 2011
• Blog Post: Medicare and the President’s Deficit Reduction Plan: Shifting Costs to Seniors
  President Obama’s newest proposal for reducing the federal deficit would slice Medicare reimbursements to drug-makers, nursing homes, ...
  Sep 27, 2011
• Blog Post: Medicare Advantage Grows; But Not Without Government Help
  When the health reform bill was passed in 2009, it looked like the end of the gravy chain for Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run health...
  Sep 23, 2011
• Blog Post: Medicare and The President’s Plan to Reduce the Deficit—Cuts That Make Sense
  Some of the largest cuts in President Obama’s proposed package of Medicare savings target areas where Medicare does, in fact, over-spend....
  Sep 20, 2011
• Blog Post: Increasing Out-of-Pocket Medicare Costs Is a Misguided Strategy for Deficit Reduction
  When it comes to Medicare, a fundamental question still begs an answer: If seniors are forced to use more of their own money to pay for their...
  Sep 13, 2011
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: Why Deregulation Won't Fix the Economy
  The Republican media complex has been having a field day with last month’s dismal jobs report, taking the opportunity to blame every progressive...
  Sep 8, 2011
• Blog Post: Medicare Spending Slows: Proof that Providers Can Trim Fat
  While no one was looking, Medicare spending quietly began to slow early in 2010. As I explained in Part 1 and Part 2 of this post , from 2000...
  Sep 7, 2011
• In The News: Medicare Spending Slows as Hospitals Improve Care: Peter Orszag
  Maggie Mahar quoted in Peter Orszag's column on Bloomberg
  Aug 24, 2011
• Commentary: The Snapshot: Hands Off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
  The Snapshot by Ruy Teixeira.
  Jul 11, 2011
• In The News: Don't Let Oncologists Make All the Decisions
  Maggie Mahar participates in the New York Times' Room for Debate, "What Medicare Services to Cut, Now."
  Jun 2, 2011
• Commentary: The Snapshot: Don't End Medicaid as We Know It, Either
  The Snapshot: Don't End Medicaid as We Know It, Either
  May 31, 2011
• In The News: Cato Institute Exposes Leftist Plot: Medicare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board
  Harold Pollack in Taking Note
  Apr 29, 2011
• Commentary: The Snapshot: Public Is Strongly Against Cutting Medicare
  The Snapshot by Ruy Teixeira.
  Apr 25, 2011
• Task Force: Medicare Reform
  The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform urged policymakers to focus on reducing the economic vulnerability of older Americans and improving their health, rather than basing policy primarily on the Medicare's potential financial difficulties
  Aug 4, 2010
• Video: Business and National Health Care Reform: 1st Session Discussion Video
  Session One of the "Business and National Health Care Reform" conference, "The Future of Employment-Based Health Insurance."
  Jul 29, 2010
• Video: Business and National Health Care Reform: Michael Critelli Video
  Session One of the "Business and National Health Care Reform" conference, "The Future of Employment-Based Health Insurance."
  Jul 29, 2010
• Commentary: Mayo Clinic Family Medicine in Arrowhead Arizona Will No Longer Take Medicare Patients
  The Mayo Clinic now has two family medicine clinics in Arizona. Beginning January 1, primary physicians at one of those clinics will no longer see Medicare patients unless they are able and willing to pay an annual $250 administrative fee, plus $175 to $400 per visit . They will also have to agree to“an appropriate number of visits each year, including physicals.
  Oct 12, 2009
• Commentary: Some Medicare Advantage Plans Do Provide Value—the HMOs
  When I reported on the waste in Medicare Advantage plans not long ago, HealthBeat reader Don Grunt pointed out that not all MA plans are alike. He wrote: “I'm a Medicare Advantage product manager in Oregon where 45% of beneficiaries sign up for MA plans (highest in the country) because we offer good plans and the competitive market keeps us honest.  So I don't work in Miami or any of the wild west of MA plans.”
  Oct 5, 2009