Center for Entitlement Reform


The Center for Entitlement Reform at Emory University was established in 2008 with a one-year grant from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. The Center is one of only a few university-based research centers in the U.S. focusing on federal health care entitlement reform.

The Center for Entitlement Reform has a research agenda encompassing long-horizon views. The Center also recognizes the short-term opportunity to inform health care policy of the Obama administration and 111th Congress.

The Center for Entitlement Reform conducts research and analysis in order to:

  1. outline the factors responsible for the rise in federal entitlement spending, specifically focused on public health insurance programs;
  2. link new approaches in financing, payment, and care delivery for achieving better value (lower costs with the same or better outcomes) based on factors driving higher spending;
  3. and present the options to key policymakers in the U.S. Congress and White House, along with state-level governments, business leaders, the public and the media.