CONFERENCE ON MEDICARE POLICY AND RESEARCH

芝加哥大学伦纳德戴维斯卫生经济研究所 宾夕法尼亚州正在计划一个关于医疗保险政策的两部分会议， “我们从二十年的医疗保险中学到了什么：研究意义 公共和私营部门政策。“会议有两个重点。 首先是医疗保险政策本身--它的成就，它对 卫生部门，以及在不断变化的政策中的未来选择 环境 第二个重点是现有的研究医疗保险-其 及时性、其对决策者的有用性、其基本假设， 以及这些假设对结果的影响。 这是一个主要目的， 会议旨在改善研究人员、政策制定者和 通过说明如何高质量的学术研究， 融入政策进程。 第二个目的是开发一个 研究议程，以更好地满足决策者的需要， 未来 会议记录将以书籍形式出版， 包括提交的文件、工作组讨论摘要、 会议成果综述、研究议程和有关 与会者编制的参考书目。 该提案明确 寻求出版费用方面的支持。

The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the University of Pennsylvania is planning a two-part conference on Medicare Policy entitled "What We Have Learned from Twenty Years of Medicare: Research Implications for Public and Private Sector Policy." The conference has a dual focus. The first is Medicare policy itself--its accomplishments, its effects on the health sector, and options for the future in a changing policy environment. The second focus is on existing research on Medicare--its timeliness, its usefulness for policy-makers, its underlying assumptions, and the impact of those assumptions on results. It is a major aim of this conference to improve the dialogue between researchers, policy makers, and interest groups by illustrating how high quality academic research can be integrated into the policy process. A second purpose is to develop a research agenda which will better meet the needs of policy makers in the future. The conference proceedings will be published in book form and will include the papers presented, a summary of work-group discussions, a synthesis of conference results, and a research agenda and relevant bibliography developed by conference participants. This proposal explicity seeks support for publication costs.