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Linda J. Blumberg  Linda J. Blumberg, Ph.D. is an economist and principal research associate at The Urban Institute. Her research has focused on private health insurance, health care financing, and health system reform. Recent work includes: development of health reform options in Massachusetts; comparing family financial burdens in obtaining children's health insurance under SCHIP versus health care tax proposals, development of standards of affordability for insurance; and developing options for expanding coverage to high cost/high risk individuals. For most of 2006 she was in New Zealand as an Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy, where she studied the effect of having private health insurance on the use of public health services there. She served as health policy advisor to the Clinton Administration during its health care reform effort. Publications by Linda J. Blumberg
Is the Public Plan Option a Necessary Part of Health Reform? (Research Report) Author(s): John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg
The Individual Mandate - An Affordable and Fair Approach to Achieving Universal Coverage (Article) Author(s): Linda J. Blumberg, John Holahan
Health Insurance Exchanges: Organizing Health Insurance Marketplaces to Promote Health Reform Goals (Policy Briefs/Timely Analysis of Health Policy Issues) Author(s): Linda J. Blumberg, Karen Pollitz
Can a Public Insurance Plan Increase Competition and Lower the Costs of Health Reform? (Policy Briefs/Health Policy Briefs) Author(s): John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg
Health Savings Accounts and High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans : Implications for Those with High Medical Costs, Low Incomes, and the Uninsured (Policy Briefs/Timely Analysis of Health Policy Issues) Author(s): Linda J. Blumberg, Lisa Clemans-Cope
The HealthPolicyCenter.Org site contains papers and publications dating back to the year 2000. For older work by the Center's staff, please visit the main Urban Institute site, www.urban.org. | ||||||||||||||||
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