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Joseph Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute

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Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI. He also is a Commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Antos' research focuses on the economics of health policy, including Medicare reform, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured. He is the editor with Alice Rivlin of Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (Brookings Institution Press, 2007). Before joining AEI, Antos was Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at the Congressional Budget Office, and he held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

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November 16, 2009 07:33 AM

RE: Troublesome Directions

Cutting Costs Means Getting Smarter If health reform is enacted this year (or next), one thing is certain. The final bill will do little to change the fundamental economic incentives that drive health spending. This is disappointing but not surprising given the political forces at work. Although politicians argue that we need to bend the cost curve down, reform proposals will increase total health spending—confirmed by CMS actuaries, even assuming Medicare fee cuts that are unlikely to be implemented fully. For the most part, health reform will expand the current inefficient health system, hoping that another layer of regulation will…  Read more
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