Institute of Medicine: Best Care at Lower Costs – The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America

This report from the Institute of Medicine describes how U.S. health care could achieve much improved health care outcomes at Continue reading →

Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations

This is a report from a convening in September 201o sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy Continue reading →

U.S. Department of State: Immigrant Visa Waiting Lists as of November 2012

This annual report from the U.S. Department of State contains information on waiting times for family-based and employment-based immigrant visas Continue reading →

RWJF – Health Affairs Policy Brief: Federally Facilitated Exchanges

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Health Affairs policy brief examines the issues facing the federally-facilitated exchanges to implement the Patient Protection Continue reading →

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Bundled Payment Demonstrations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the first recipients of grant funds to demonstrate the feasibility Continue reading →

My Proposal for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Last week was a historic week as a bipartisan group of eight Senators and President Barack Obama both introduced frameworks Continue reading →

Internal Revenue Service: Proposed Rule for Shared Responsibility Payment for Not Maintaining Essential Minimum Coverage

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a proposed rule for the “shared responsibility payments” that will be owed by individuals Continue reading →

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Proposed Rule Defining Essential Minimum Coverage and Exemptions

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have issued a proposed rule defining the requirements for and exemptions from the Continue reading →