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Commentary by RAND Health Staff

RAND Health researchers contribute commentaries to newspapers worldwide. This page provides a chronological list of commentaries written by RAND researchers on health-related topics.

For a complete list of commentaries by RAND staff on other topics, please visit RAND's commentary page.

RAND is a nonpartisan institution and as such does not take positions on issues; commentary by RAND staff reflect the opinions of the authors and not those of RAND itself.


2009

October 7, 2009: Disruption and innovation in health care

Robert H. Brook (JAMA)

October 9, 2009: Innovation Means More Than Something New

Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Economist.com)

September 11, 2009: Collateral Damage in the Ruckus Over Healthcare Reform

Steven M. Asch, Karl Lorenz, and Diane Meier (CNN.com)

September 9, 2009: Finally, Presidential Support for the Individual Mandate

Elizabeth A. McGlynn (NYTimes.com)

August 29, 2009: Stick to Facts to Find Health-Care Change That Works

Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Jeffrey Wasserman (The Tennessean)

August 21, 2009: Fix the Healthcare System (and Fight the Recession, Too)

Dana P. Goldman and Neeraj Sood (CNN.com)

August 19, 2009: Co-Ops: A Very Tall Order

Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Washington Post online)

June 24, 2009: The Public Option: Sorting Rhetoric from Reality

Elizabeth A. McGlynn (ABC News online)

June 23, 2009: Improve Health, Not the Health Care System

Dana P. Goldman (NYTimes.com)

June 17, 2009: The Science of Health Care Reform

Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD (JAMA)

2008

September 28, 2008: War's Invisible Wounds

Terry L. Schell, Terri Tanielian, Lisa H. Jaycox (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

June 1, 2008: Invisible Wounds of War

Kayla M. Williams (Voices of Tomorrow)

April 19, 2008: A Better Way to Pay for Prescriptions

Dana P. Goldman (Providence Journal)

2007

August 16, 2007: Spending Aid to Palestinians Wisely

David Aaron, C. Ross Anthony (International Herald Tribune)

March 7, 2007: Marketing is Making Us Fat

Deborah Cohen (United Press International)

February 21, 2007: A Desired Epidemic: Obesity and the Food Industry

Deborah Cohen (The Washingon Post)

January 7, 2007: Flooded with Food

Deborah Cohen (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

2006

August 27, 2006: Are We Prepared? Not Quite

K. Jack Riley (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

August 20, 2006: Mississippi Comeback

George Penick and K. Jack Riley (Los Angeles Times)

June 16, 2006: Help for Homeless Women

Suzanne L. Wenzel (Washingtonpost.com)

February 20, 2006: The HSA Mirage

Dana Goldman and Jesse Malkin (United Press International)

January 13, 2006: A Simple Rx for Part D

Geoffrey Joyce (United Press International)

2005

December 14, 2005: Vision for a Successful Palestine

Michael Rich (Washington Times)

October 23, 2005: Pressure from Rising Health-Care Costs: How Can Consumers Get Relief?

Dana P. Goldman (Press-Enterprise)

October 11, 2005: Health Costs of Katrina

Dana P. Goldman and Mark A. Schuster (United Press International)

October 3, 2005: Healing Storm Victims' Mental Health

Kenneth B. Wells and Greer Sullivan (Newsday)

September 30, 2005: Acknowledge Problem, Then Fix It

Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

May 22, 2005: Planning for Palestine

Steven Simon and C. Ross Anthony (Baltimore Sun)

March 27, 2005: Why We Know Painfully Little About Dying

June Lunney and Joanne Lynn (Washington Post)

2004

December 30, 2004: Prepare the Public

Nicole Lurie and Jeffrey Wasserman (United Press International)

November 28, 2004: 'Lifestyle' and Live-Saving Drugs

Thomas Croghan and Patricia Pittman (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

November 9, 2004: Shortages Beyond Flu Shots

Jennifer Brower (Washington Times)
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August 12, 2004: Afghanistan Without Doctors

Cheryl Benard (Wall Street Journal)

June 7, 2004: How Can Individuals Be Better Prepared for Catastrophic Terrorist Attacks?

Lynn Davis (The Connection)

2003

July 14, 2003: U.S. Foreign Policy Must Include the Eradication of Dangerous Diseases

Kenneth Shine and Ross Anthony (Modern Healthcare)

June 26, 2003: Sharing of Health-Care Data Needs a Tuneup

Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Los Angeles Times)

June 10, 2003: Steps Can Be Taken to Improve Public Healthcare

Catherine A. Jackson (The Miami Herald)

February 13, 2003: The Weapons of Mass Creation

Caroline S. Wagner (Los Angeles Times)

2002

December 11, 2002: Take Two Aspirin and Call Congress

Dana P. Goldman and Geoffrey F. Joyce (Los Angeles Times)

September 24, 2002: AIDS Can Threaten National Stability

Peter Chalk (United Press International)
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