November 24, 2010 -
The Honorable Simon Burns, MP, Minister of State for Health, England, gave this keynote address, "In Search of Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS," on November 17, at the 2010 Commmonwealth Fund International Health Policy and Practice Symposium in Washington, D.C.
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February 17, 2010 -
Watch the highlights of the ministers' roundtable from The Commonwealth Fund's 2009 International Symposium on Health Care Policy, "Top Priorities for Achieving a High Performance Health Care System." Participants included Carolyn Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health, England; Thomas Björn Zeltner, M.D., former Secretary of State for Health, Switzerland; Abraham (Ab) Klink, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands; Dr. Jonathan Coleman, Associate Minister of Health, New Zealand; Karin Johansson, State Secretary for Health, Sweden; Lord Ara Darzi, KBE, M.D., Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, England.
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January 22, 2010 -
This Dec. 7, 2009 webcast, the latest installment in the "Talking Health" series produced by the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), The Commonwealth Fund, and the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Journalism, featured a panel of experts and journalists who explored what Medicare beneficiaries think of the program, beneficiaries' out-of-pocket costs and coverage choices, and Medicare's long-term prospects. Speakers included: Bruce Vladeck, Ph.D., senior adviser to Nexera, Inc., a consulting subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association, and former administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration; John Rother, executive vice president of policy and strategy for AARP; and Michelle Andrews, a New York–based freelance writer who writes about health care for the New York Times, CBS MoneyWatch.com, and Money.
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December 1, 2009 -
The Honorable Kathleen G. Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, gave this keynote address, "A Vision for the U.S. Health Care System: the Challenges and Opportunities" on November 4, at the 2009 Commmonwealth Fund International Health Policy and Practice Symposium in Washington, D.C.
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November 23, 2009 -
In this video overview, Robin Osborn, M.B.A., Commonwealth Fund vice president and director of the International Program in Policy and Practice, discusses what makes the Harkness Fellowship unique and it has enriched the careers and lives of past fellows.
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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 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 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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