Since 1980, The Lewin Group has been a leader in the health reform and coverage arena and is one of the few independent sources of information on the financial impacts of health coverage expansions and other national and state health reform initiatives. Mr. John Sheils, who leads Lewin's work in this area, is a well-regarded national expert in the field. He has testified before Congressional committees and often works directly with legislative leaders at the national and state level in evaluating and developing health reform initiatives.
He is the architect of the Health Benefits Simulation Model (HBSM) a well-vetted proprietary model, which has been continually refined since 1989, when it was first used to estimate the cost of alternative universal coverage proposals for the Bipartisan Congressional Commission on Health Care. The model has been used to analyze a broad range of health reform proposals at both the state and federal levels, including The Lewin Group’s independent comparative analysis of the proposed health plans of President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry during the 2004 Presidential Campaign, and recently, President Bush's health insurance proposal and the Healthy Americans Act introduced by Senator Ron Wyden.
The Lewin Group has developed comparisons of alternative coverage expansions for such organizations as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund. Lewin has also modeled a wide range of health reform models for individual states including tax credits, the single payer model and individual mandate proposals such as the legislation recently adopted in Massachusetts.
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