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CED Releases "Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" |
Colleges and universities should embrace the concept of increased openness in the use and sharing of information to improve higher education. That is the core recommendation of Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, a new report from CED. The report was produced by CED's Digital Connections Council (DCC), a group of information technology experts that advises CED's business leaders on cutting-edge technologies.
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Choice and Competition in Healthcare |
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When the President presented his framework for health-care reform to a joint session of Congress in September, he emphatically stated, "My guiding principle is, and always has been, that consumers do better when there is choice and competition." We agree with this two-part focus.
The health reform proposal headed for upcoming Senate debate stops far short of the twin goals of choice and competition. It would restrict each of an estimated 200 million Americans to the specific health insurance package provided by his or her employer, which in the vast majority of cases allows no meaningful consumer choice. Indeed, for the typical American, health insurance "competition" would continue to be limited to multi-year re-bidding of the employer's specific plan. Limiting competition to the employer's one-size-fits-all health plan has perpetuated the fee-for-service system that has pushed costs unsustainably higher.
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Public Option? Why Not Something That Might Work? |
By Bo Cutter and Joe Minarik
The Sunday, October 18, 2009 New York Times long editorial in support of the public option in health care reform: first, displays a scary level of economic ignorance; second, validates a long and harmful tradition of budget smoke and mirrors; and third and worst of all, completely ignores a real alternative which has far and away the best chance of leading to a functioning health care reform, and which The Times seems almost deliberately to refuse even to mention.
We should say that we consider ourselves passionate centrists, served in senior positions in the White Houses of Democratic presidents, value the public sector a great deal, and have no connections with the insurance industry. We write because The Times has simply refused ever to look at the alternatives, and is simply wrong.
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Our Health Future: The Business Case for Wyden-Bennett |
From the Huffington Post
By Alain Enthoven and Charles Kolb
Recent action on health-care legislation is headed for a strategic disaster -- rising health-costs and a fiscal explosion. Business leaders need to recognize this, and work to change course before it is too late. Read more...
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