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Catalyzing reform in health care payment
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Catalyzing reform in health care payment

Penn’s Parity Center engages an interdisciplinary team of experts to collaborate with health insurers, health systems, physician practices and policymakers. Deputy director Austin S. Kilaru describes the Center’s mission, success, and future.

From the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics

Lisa Jarvis: The Supreme Court put health care at risk
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lisa Jarvis: The Supreme Court put health care at risk

Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the language for approving a drug in the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act is too ambiguous.

Higher education needs more Socrates and Plato
The New York Times

Higher education needs more Socrates and Plato

In an opinion essay, PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and Harun Küçük of the School of Arts & Sciences say that higher education must reassert its classical liberal arts ideals.

How to die in good health
The New Yorker

How to die in good health

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that incessantly preparing for old age mistakes a long life for a worthwhile one.