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Phillip Longman is a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation’s Health Policy Program where he currently concentrates on delivery system reform. He is also a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Washington Monthly. His work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Der Spiegel, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, The National Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
His work on health care includes Best Care Anywhere, recently updated with a second edition by Polipoint in 2010. The book chronicles the quality transformation of the Veterans Health Administration and applies its lessons for reforming the U.S. health care system as a whole. Mr. Longman has spoken widely on this subject, including appearances on the Keith Olberman Show, at the Wharton School of Business, Yale School of Management, WorldVistA, MedImpact, The National Convention of the American Legion,California Health Professional Student Alliance, The Open Source Convention, The National Association of Veterans Research and Education Foundations, and at numerous VA facilities around the country. His appearance at a New America Foundation event on the subject is available here.
Mr. Longman is also well known for his work on the implications of human fertility decline and global aging. This includes his book, The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It, published by Basic Books in 2004 and reissued in paperback in 2006. It examines how the rapid yet uneven fall in birth rates around the globe is affecting the balance of power between nations and influencing the global economy and culture. Mr. Longman's speaking on this subject includes addressees to the Population Association of America, PopTech, Fortune magazine’s BrainStorm conference, National War College, the Japan Foundation, the LongNow Foundation, the Ford Hall Forum, Foundation for the Future, The BMW Foundation, The University of Minnesota, The University of Virginia, World Affairs Council, Trinity College (Dublin), Institute for Defense and Security Analysis (New Delhi) World Congress of Families (Warsaw, Amsterdam), the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce (Ottawa), The St. Gallen Symposium (Switzerland) and the Social Trends Institute (Barcelona). His latest work on global aging can be found in this cover story for Foreign Policy magazine.
Longman’s first book, Born to Pay: the New Politics of Aging in America (Houghton Mifflin, 1987), accurately predicted the mounting strains on federal spending and economic growth associated with the aging of the Baby Boom generation. In 1997, he warned of the consequences excess debt and insufficient savings in his book, The Return of Thrift: How the Collapse of the Middle Class Welfare State Will Reawaken Values in America (Free Press, 1997). He is also the co-author, with Ray Boshara, of The Next Progressive Era: A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity (Polipoint, Spring 2009), which are argues for an embrace of entrepreneurialism and family values by today’s progressive movement. .
Formerly a senior writer and deputy assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, he has won numerous awards for his business and financial writing, including UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award, and the top prize for investigative journalism from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.
