Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform, Implementation, and Post-Reform Priorities

Presents survey results on healthcare experts' views on the comprehensive health reform law enacted in March 2010, including premium subsidies, new insurance market rules, and alternative payment methods; implementation challenges; and long-term issues

Setting a National Minimum Standard for Health Benefits: How Do State Benefit Mandates Compare With Benefits in Large-Group Plans?

Based on a comparison between states' minimum health benefit mandates and those for federal employees, considers whether a proposed federal standard would require more or less generous coverage than is state-mandated

Realizing Health Reform's Potential: How the Affordable Care Act Will Strengthen Primary Care and Benefit Patients, Providers, and Payers

Examines issues in primary care and outlines the 2010 healthcare reform law's provisions to strengthen it, including temporary hikes in Medicare and Medicaid payments and support for innovations in care delivery and primary care workforce development

Finding Resources for Health Reform and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve

Examines policy options for slowing healthcare spending growth, improving outcomes, and financing comprehensive reform, including changes to Medicare Advantage and hospital pay-for-performance. Compares their estimated budget impact over ten years

Shades of CORDS in the Kush: The False Hope of Unity of Effort in American Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency (COIN) requires an integrated military, political, and economic program best developed by teams that field both civilians and soldiers. These units should operate with some independence but under a coherent command. In Vietnam, after several false starts, the United States developed an effective unified organization, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to guide the counterinsurgency. CORDS had three components absent from our efforts in Afghanistan today: sufficient personnel (particularly civilian), numerous teams, and a single chain of command that united the separate COIN programs of the disparate American departments at the district, provincial, regional, and national levels. This Paper focuses on the third issue and describes the benefits that unity of command at every level would bring to the American war in Afghanistan. The work begins with a brief introduction to counterinsurgency theory, using a population-centric model, and examines how this warfare challenges the United States. It traces the evolution of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and the country team, describing problems at both levels. Similar efforts in Vietnam are compared, where persistent executive attention finally integrated the government’s counterinsurgency campaign under the unified command of the CORDS program. The next section attributes the American tendency towards a segregated response to cultural differences between the primary departments, executive neglect, and societal concepts of war. The Paper argues that, in its approach to COIN, the United States has forsaken the military concept of unity of command in favor of “unity of effort” expressed in multiagency literature. The final sections describe how unified authority would improve our efforts in Afghanistan and propose a model for the future.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1346/thumbnail.jp

Survey of Changes in Function of the College-Controlled Laboratory School from 1948 to 1958

The trend toward more practical and functional education for both elementary-school and secondary-school children and their teachers has produced renewed attention to the function of the college-controlled laboratory school. As defined by Caswell, this institution is . . . a school largely or entirely under the control of the college, located on or near the college campus, organized for the specific purpose of preparing teachers, with staff and facilities designed to serve this purpose. The use of the laboratory school in present-day teacher education is not understood or accepted by many educators or lay people. In many places its present value is questioned, and this feeling has increased since the advent of full-time student teaching in the public schools. There is a need to determine whether the college-controlled laboratory school has a special and important function in the present-day education of teachers; if, in many instances, the laboratory school can make a more adequate and necessary contribution to teacher education than in the past. This study attempted, within limitations, to focus attention on the changes in function of the college-controlled laboratory school in such a way as to help others understand its present position in teacher education

Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Health Reform and the Role of States

Presents findings of a survey of experts about the relative authority of states and the federal government over the individual mandate, health insurance exchanges, provider payment methods, and other reform provisions and barriers to implementation