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Can Cancer Ever Be Ignored?

Shannon Brownlee's New York Times Magazine piece with Jeanne Lenzer chronicles the history and the debate around PSA testing for prostate cancer - and the new recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task force that says it's not worthwhile. Video and article here!

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Patient Decision Aids and Shared Decision Making

This primer, from Shannon Brownlee, MS, Vanessa Hurley, MPH, and Ben Moulton, JD, MPH, explains: What is shared decision-making, and what role do patient decision aids play in it?

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Cost Priorities

Senior Fellow Leif Wellington Haase argues that we need to focus on reducing actual medical care spending by improving efficiency, rather than simply capping insurance premiums.
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All Over The Map: Elective Procedure Rates Vary Wildly in California

The California Healthcare Foundation offers a cool interactive map that shows how elective medical procedures vary hugely across the state. The map is linked to a report by Vanessa Hurley and Shannon Brownlee.

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Publications

Nov 15, 2011 | TIME Magazine |
Shannon Brownlee
Oct 31, 2011 | TIME Magazine |
Shannon Brownlee
Oct 28, 2011 | The Washington Monthly |
Phillip Longman
Oct 9, 2011 | The New York Times Magazine |
Shannon Brownlee
Sep 16, 2011 | New America Foundation |
Shannon Brownlee
Vanessa Hurley
Aug 16, 2011 | Foreign Policy |
Phillip Longman
Aug 1, 2011 | Foreign Policy |
Phillip Longman
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The New America Foundation’s Health Policy Program is committed to achieving a high-quality, coordinated, and economically sustainable health care system. Building on its successful advocacy for increased access, New America’s Health Policy Program has shifted focus to the next crucial step in reform: improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of America’s health care delivery system. The Health Policy Program is committed not only to discovering best practices in medicine and health promotion, but also to communicating these practices to the broadest possible audience, including policy makers, health care professionals and especially consumers of health care, through scholarly work, convening and original journalism. (Read the full program description)

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Joe Colucci
Monday, November 28, 2011
We wrote a couple weeks ago about the growing sense in the health policy and patient communities that doctors really ought to be intelligible to their patients, and that it might help for future doctors to take some classes that get them outside the laboratory and interacting with people.Well, here...
Joe Colucci
Monday, November 28, 2011
Shannon Brownlee's newest piece at TIME Ideas calls the FDA's de-labeling of Avastin as a breast cancer treatment "one of the most important decisions ever made by a federal agency for the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook." We don't think that's an understatement.The importance of the Avastin...
Shannon Brownlee
Joe Colucci
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Dr. Jack Wennberg's work on variation in medical treatment serves as the foundation for a lot of what we do in the Health Policy Program at New America. His pioneering research showed huge differences in the way that similar patients are treated in different places, and the vast unnecessary...
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Health Policy Program Staff

Shannon Brownlee
Acting Director, Health Policy Program

Shannon Brownlee, MS, is acting director of the New America Health Policy...

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Research Associate, Health Policy Program

Joe Colucci is a research associate in the Health Policy Program. He assists...

Leif Wellington Haase
Senior Research Fellow, Health Policy Program

Leif Wellington Haase is a California-based senior fellow in the Health...

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Analyst, Health Policy Program

Vanessa Hurley is an analyst for New America’s Health Policy Program. She...

Phillip Longman
Senior Research Fellow, Health Policy Program

Phillip Longman is a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation’...

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