Health

Peer Reviewed 

Carolin Hagelskamp, David Schleifer, Chloe Rinehart, and Rebecca Silliman. Journal of Urban Health, 2018. “Participatory Budgeting: Could It Diminish Health Disparities in the United States?” 

Kathryn Phillips, David Schleifer, and Carolin Hagelskamp. Health Affairs, 2016. “Most Americans Do Not Believe That There Is An Association Between Health Care Prices And Quality Of Care.”

David Schleifer and David Rothman. PLOS One, 2012. “The Ultimate Decision Is Yours: Exploring Patients’ Attitudes about the Overuse of Medical Interventions.” 

Reports

Rebecca Silliman, Erin McNally, Cruz Vargas-Sullivan, and David Schleifer. Public Agenda, 2023. “It leaves me feeling defeated: Searching for in-network mental health care with marketplace insurance.” 

Rebecca Silliman, Erin McNally, Cruz Vargas-Sullivan, and David Schleifer. Public Agenda, 2023. “Complex, time-consuming, and frustrating: Searching for in-network diabetes care with marketplace insurance.”

Rebecca Silliman, Erin McNally, Cruz Vargas-Sullivan, and David Schleifer. Public Agenda, 2023. “How administrative professionals see the effects of narrow network and complex benefits.”

David Schleifer and Cruz Fox. Public Agenda, 2023. “Something Needs to Happen: What Employees Think Employers Should Do About Health Care Providers’ Prices.”

Rebecca Silliman and David Schleifer. Public Agenda, 2021. “A Two-Way Street: Building Trust Between People with Medicaid and Primary Care Doctors.”

David Schleifer and Will Friedman. Public Agenda, 2020. “Taking the Pulse: Where Americans Agree on Improving Health Care.”

David Schleifer and Will Friedman. Public Agenda, 2020. “America’s Hidden Common Ground on the Coronavirus and Reopening.”

David Schleifer and Will Friedman. Public Agenda, 2020. “America’s Hidden Common Ground on Community Responses to the Coronavirus.”

David Schleifer and Kirk Grisham. Public Agenda, 2019. “We Can Do Better: New York State Residents Weigh In on Health Care Quality.”

David Schleifer, Antonio Diep and Kirk Grisham. Public Agenda, 2019. “It’s About Trust: Low-Income Parents’ Perspectives on How Pediatricians Can Screen for Social Determinants of Health.”

Will Freidman, Antonio Diep and David Schleifer. Public Agenda, 2018. “Where Americans See Eye to Eye on Health Care.”

David Schleifer, Rebecca Silliman, Chloe Rinehart and Antonio Diep. Public Agenda, 2017. “Qualities that Matter: Public Perceptions of Quality in Diabetes Care, Joint Replacement and Maternity Care.”

David Schleifer, Rebecca Silliman and Chloe Rinehart. Public Agenda, 2017. “Still Searching: How People Use Health Care Price Information in the United States, New York State, Florida, Texas and New Hampshire.”

David Schleifer, Carolin Hagelskamp and Chloe Rinehart. Public Agenda, 2015. “How Much Will It Cost? How Americans Use Prices in Health Care.”, 

David Schleifer, Carolin Hagelskamp and Christopher DiStasi. Public Agenda, 2014. “Curbing Health Care Costs: Are Citizens Ready to Wrestle with Tough Choices?”

Carolin Hagelskamp, David Schleifer, and Christopher DiStasi. 2014. “Profiting Higher Education? What Students, Alumni and Employers Think About For-Profit Colleges.”

Other Writing

David Schleifer. Albany Times-Union, 2024. “Social care can boost health care, but how we approach it matters.”

David Schleifer. The Hill, 2023. “Beyond Forgiveness:  Tackle the root causes of debt in higher education and health care.”

Katherine Hempstead and David Schleifer. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Marketplace Pulse, 2023. “The Challenge of Obtaining Mental Healthcare in the Marketplace.”

Lisa Zamosky and David Schleifer. PBGH, 2023. “Employees ready for action to address high health care costs.” 

David Schleifer. Georgetown University Center for Children & Families Say Ahhh!, 2022. “Parents Talk About Social Needs Screening, Identify Trust as a Major Issue.”

David Schleifer. American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, 2022“ Who gets to ask the questions and who has to answer?.”

David Schleifer and Mary Catherine Beach. 2021, Health Affairs ForefrontIn Patients We Trust: Why Clinicians Need To Believe And Respect Patients.”

David Schleifer and Mary Catherine Beach. Modern Healthcare, 2021. “How healthcare leaders can help rebuild trust.”

David Schleifer and Rebecca Silliman. American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, 2020 “Trust Should Be a Two-Way Street.”

David Schleifer and Suzanne Brundage. Georgetown University Center for Children & Families Say Ahhh!, 2019 “Parents Talk About Social Needs Screening, Identify Trust as a Major Issue.” 

David Schleifer. Government Finance Review, 2018. “Pulling Back the Curtain: How Americans Use Health Care Price Information.”

Ateev Mehrotra, David Schleifer, Amy Shefrin and Andrea Ducas. NEJM Catalyst, 2018. “Defining the Goals of Health Care Price Transparency: Not Just Shopping Around.” 

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