Center for Policy Innovation Discussion Paper posted March 13, 2012 by Karen McKeown
Can Online Learning Reproduce the Full College Experience?
Online classes are becoming a common feature of higher education, and this has led some educators to explore whether all of the features associated with a college experience could be accomplished online. The Center for Policy Innovation invited Karen D. McKeown to share her views on this subject. Ms. McKeown, formerly a Graduate Fellow in Health Policy at The Heritage…
Backgrounder posted December 27, 2011 by Karen McKeown
Empowering Patients as Key Decision Makers in the Face of Rising Health Care Costs
Abstract: The current trend of rapidly rising health care costs is unsustainable. Many proposed reforms to curb spending rely on some type of rationing imposed by an unaccountable government body. A better alternative would be to allow individual consumers to make their own decisions about care, including the self-rationing of medical services, based on cost and their own…