Henry J. Aaron is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Bruce and Virginia Mac Laury Chair. Among his many books are
Can We Say No? The Challenge of Rationing Health Care, with William B. Schwartz and Melissa Cox (Brookings, 2006), and
Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities, written with Jeanne Lambrew (Brookings, 2008).
Jeanne M. Lambrew is associate professor of public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas Austin, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. From 1997 to 2000, she worked on health policy in the Clinton White House.
Patrick F. Healy is an associate in the law firm of Mc Dermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm”s Boston office. He focuses his practice on general health law, including the representation of hospitals, health systems, and other health care clients.
21 Ebooks door Henry Aaron
Henry Aaron & Jeanne M. Lambrew: Reforming Medicare
Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for heal …
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Henry Aaron & Leonard E. Burman: Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance
A Brookings Institution Press and Urban Institute publication Few people realize that one of the nation’s largest health programs runs through the tax system. Reformers of all stripes propose to modi …
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Henry Aaron & Gary Burtless: Closing the Deficit
As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. Closing the Deficit examines one oft-discussed approach to …
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Henry Aaron: Problem that Won’t Go Away
Why did President Clinton’s efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton’s health ca …
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Henry Aaron & William B. Schwartz: Coping with Methuselah
Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution …
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Henry Aaron & Joel Slemrod: Crisis in Tax Administration
People pay taxes for two reasons. On the positive side, most people recognize, even if grudgingly, that payment of tax is a duty of citizenship. On the negative side, they know that the law requires …
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Henry Aaron & William B. Schwartz: Can We Say No?
Over the past four decades, the share of income devoted to health care nearly tripled. If policy is unchanged, this trend is likely to continue. Should Americans decide to rein in the growth of healt …
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Henry Aaron & James M. Lindsay: Agenda for the Nation
More powerful and affluent today than ever, the United States has promising opportunities to influence the course of history. Yet these prospects are shadowed by significant perils and burdens. In th …
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Henry Aaron: Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics
Deciding when and how to retire are among the most important decisions most people make. Can they be depended on to plan with foresight and make sound decisions? According to standard economic analys …
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Henry Aaron & Barry P. Bosworth: Can America Afford to Grow Old?
Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American popu …
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Henry Aaron & William G. Gale: Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform
The tax system profoundly affects countless aspects of private behavior. It is a powerful policy influence on the distribution of income and it is the one aspect of government that almost every citiz …
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Henry Aaron: Politics and the Professors
In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity …
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Henry Aaron: Setting National Priorities
Setting National Priorities continues the highly acclaimed and influential series of books that examine domestic and foreign policy choices confronting the United States. Members of the Brookings sta …
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Henry Aaron & Robert D. Reischauer: Setting National Priorities
"If the subject of influence in Washington interests you, this series of books deserves your respectful attention…it has changed the ways in which American politicians think about the budget.& …
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Henry Aaron: Serious and Unstable Condition
The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term …
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Henry Aaron & Charles L. Schultze: Setting Domestic Priorities
In recent years, workers earnings have hardly grown, violence and crime have plagued the inner cities, homelessness and public begging have become commonplace, and family life has greatly deteriorate …
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Henry Aaron & Thomas E. Mann: Values and Public Policy
It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from so …
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Henry Aaron & Harvey Galper: Assessing Tax Reform
Reform of the United States tax system has become a central political issue. Assessing Tax Reform is a concise, nontechnical book to help general readers and students understand the tax reform issues …
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Henry Aaron & Harvey Galper: Uneasy Compromise
Whether the nation would be better served by an income tax or by a consumption tax has been debated by tax experts for decades. In practice, tax systems everywhere are mixed or "hybrid" sys …
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Henry Aaron & Cameran M. Lougy: Comparable Worth Controversy
The well-documented gap between men’s and women’s earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government, busine …
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Henry Aaron: Economic Effects of Social Security
The social security system affects people throughout most of their lives, at work and in retirement. The supposed effects of social security on saving, labor supply, and the distribution of income fi …
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