People
Alain C. Enthoven, PhD
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus and CHP/PCOR Core Faculty MemberGraduate School of Business 222
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
Research Interests
financing and delivery of health care in the United States and other industrialized nations; cost-benefit decisions in health care
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Reports
- Decreasing Variation in Medical Necessity Decision Making
Sara J. Singer, Linda A. Bergthold, C Vorhaus, S Olson, I Mutchnick, YY Goh, S Zimmerman, Alain C. Enthoven
California Health Care Foundation (1999) - California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force
Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven
Report prepared for the Governor and the Legislature of the State of California (1998) - Health Plan Purchasing Cooperatives (HPPCs) and Reform of the Small Group Health Insurance Market
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Research Paper Series, Stanford University (1993)
Journal Articles
- Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform
Kenneth J. Arrow, Auerbach A, Bertko J, Brownlee S, Casalino LP, Cooper J, Crosson J, Alain C. Enthoven, Falcone E, Feldman RC, Victor R. Fuchs, Alan M. Garber, Gold MR, Goldman D, Hadfield GK, Hall MA, Horwitz RI, Hooven M, Jacobson PD, Stoltzfus Jost T, Kotlikoff LJ, Levin J, Levine S, Levy R, Linscott K, Harold S. Luft, Marshal R, McFadden D, Mechanic D, Meltzer D, Newhouse JP, Noll RG, Pietzsch JB, Pizzo P, Reischauer RD, Rosenbaum S, Sage W, Schaeffer LD, Sheen E, Siilber BM, Skinner J, Stephen M. Shortell, Thier SO, Sean S. Tunis, Wulsin L, Yock P, Nun GB, Stirling Bryan, Luxenburg O Luxenburg O, van de Ven PMM
Annals of Internal Medicine vol. 150, 7 (2009)
New Directions for Public Health Care Purchasers? Responses to Looming Challenges
A McKethan, D Gitterman, A Feezor, Alain C. Enthoven
Health Affairs vol. 25, 6 (2006)
Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future
Alain C. Enthoven, Victor R. Fuchs
Health Affairs vol. 25, 6 (2006)
Choice in Health Care
Alain C. Enthoven
Health Affairs vol. 25, 2 (2006)
Competition in Health Care: It Takes Systems to Pursue Quality and Efficiency
Alain C. Enthoven, Laura A. Tollen
Health Affairs (2005)
Market forces and efficient health care systems
Alain C. Enthoven
Health Affairs vol. 23, 2 (2004)
- Sustaining a market-based healthcare system
Alain C. Enthoven
Healthcare Financial Management Association vol. 58, 7 (2004)
Stanford University's experience with managed competition
Alain C. Enthoven, Talbott B
Health Affairs vol. 23, 6 (2004)
Employment-Based Health Insurance Is Failing: Now What?
Alain C. Enthoven
Health Affairs (2003)
Fortune 500 Model for Health Care: Is Now the Time to Change?, The
Alain C. Enthoven
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law vol. 27, 1 (2002)
Structural Problems in Managed Care in California and Some Options for Ameliorating Them
Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven
California Management Review (2001)
New Prescription for Managed Care in California, A
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
California Management Review (2001)
Managed Care Backlash: Unrealistic Expectations Born of Defective Institutions, The
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (1999)
Managed Care Backlash and the Task Force in California, The
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Health Affairs vol. 17, 4 (1998)
- Expanding Consumer Choice of Health Plans
Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven
Managing Employee Health Benefits vol. 17, 1 (1998) - Reforming Medicare Before It's Too Late
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Stanford University, sponsored by a grant from The Commonwealth Fund vol. 1411 (1997)
Paying More Twice: When Employers Subsidize Higher-Cost Health Plans
KA Hunt, Sara J. Singer, J Gable, D Liston, Alain C. Enthoven
Health Affairs vol. 16, 6 (1997)
Markets and Collective Action in Regulating Managed Care
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Health Affairs vol. 16, 6 (1997)
Managed Competition and California's Health Care Economy
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Health Affairs vol. 15, 1 (1996)
Market-Based Reform: What to Regulate and by Whom
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Health Affairs vol. 14, 1 (1995)
Clinton Health Plan, The: A Single Payer System in Jackson Hole Clothing
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Health Affairs vol. 13, 1 (1994)
- Incentives for a Better Health Care System
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Journal of Health Care Benefits (1994)
Can Health Care Reform Survive the Smoke-Filled Room?
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Stanford Business School Magazine (1994)
History and Principles of Managed Competition, The
Alain C. Enthoven
Health Affairs vol. 12, Supplement 1 (1993)
Jackson Hole Initiatives for a Twenty-First Century American Health Care System, The
PA Ellwood, Alain C. Enthoven, L Etheredge
Health Economics vol. 1 (1992)
Consumer-Choice Health Plan for the 1990's: Universal Health Insurance in a System Designed to Promote Quality and Economy, A
Alain C. Enthoven, R Kronick
New England Journal of Medicine vol. 320 (1989)
Books & Book Chapters
Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd Edition
EH Shortliffe, JJ Cimino, Alan M. Garber, Douglas K. Owens, Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven
Springer (2006)
Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice
Alain C. Enthoven, Laura Tollen
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (2004)
Near-Universal Coverage Through Health Plan Competition: An Insurance Exchange Approach
Sara J. Singer, Alan M. Garber, Alain C. Enthoven
Washington DC: Economic and Social Research Institute in "Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured", JA Meyer and EK Wicks, ed. (2001)
Health Care and Information Technology: Growing Up Together
Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven, Alan M. Garber
Springer-Verlag (New York) in "Medical Informatics, Computer Application in Health Care, Second Edition", Shortliffe, et al, editors. (2000)
California's Struggle with Regulation
Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven
Jossey-Bass (Menlo Park, CA) in "Regulating Managed Care: Theory, Practice, and Future Options", Altman, Reinhardt, and Schactman, editors. (1999)
- Choosing among Health Plans
Alain C. Enthoven, Sara J. Singer
Hanley & Belfus, Inc (Philadelphia) in "Health Care Management: State of the Art Reviews" vol. 1, 1 (1994)
Health Plan: The Only Practical Solution to the Soaring Costs of Medical Care
Alain C. Enthoven
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1980)





