Glied nominated to Federal Post

From WhiteHouse.gov:
Sherry Glied, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services
Sherry Glied is Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She has extensive experience in health care financing and mental health policy research. From 1992-1993, she served [...]

MBA Fundamentals Strategy = Stocking Stuffer

Professors Ference and Thurman have a new book coming out! You can view it at Amazon here…
Book Description
Strategy is the cornerstone of any MBA program, and a critical part of any company’s growth.In this Kaplan MBA Fundamentals guide, two Columbia professors who have consulted with Fortune 500 companies make strategic planning easy to understand and [...]

PWC Report Out on the Obama Administration

Today, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Research Institute put out a report entitled. Healthcare policy in an Obama administration: Delivering on the Promise of universal coverage.
You can download the report here, and the chart pack here.
President-elect Obama has indicated that his administration will reform the American health system to expand access and make health care more affordable. However, [...]

McCain’s Health Care Fact Check

The McCain- Palin Campaign just sent out these little ‘fact-pills.’  (You can click on the pill to take you to the Campaign Website).  It seems in the last week of campaigning, health care is starting to rival the economy as the marquee issue in the swing states.

New York Times Editorial: The Candidates’ Health Plans

October 28, 2008
Editorial
The Candidates’ Health Plans
The nation’s health care system is desperately in need of reform — as far too many Americans know from grim, personal experience. In this election, Barack Obama and John McCain are offering starkly different ideas for how to fix that system.
There is no shortage of problems:
¶ Some 45 million Americans [...]

Sherry Glied: Health Care in the 2008 Election

For a health policy analyst, this year’s election offers a striking illustration of how deeply divided policymakers are in how they view the problems of the health system and the solutions to these problems.  Senators McCain and Obama sometimes seem to be speaking about entirely different systems and their proposed [...]

Colloquium Series on Health, Law, and Society

Columbia Law School
Wednesday, October 8, 2008  12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
 Case Lounge, 7th Floor
Columbia Law School (Jerome Greene Hall)
116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Health Economics and Health Care Reform
Sherry Glied, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Lunch will be served at 12 noon. Presentation begins at 12:15 p.m.
This talk [...]

Health Affairs

In the 9.16.08 Health Affairs, Introduction to Health Economics Professor Sherry Glied has co-authored a piece regarding the candidates’ health care plans.  To down load the entire article; click here.
From the abstract….

Senator John McCain’s (R-AZ) health plan would eliminate the current tax exclusion of employer payments for health coverage, replace the exclusion with a refundable [...]