Author Frequently asked questions. 528 items Posts pagination Newer 1 … 10 11 12 13 14 … 53 Older If you chose your health plan, you may well have the wrong one December 14, 2020 Most Americans make poor choices. So do most professional insurance brokers, a new study finds. By Margot Sanger-Katz The New York Times, December 11, 2020 When Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning economist and a New York Times columnist, started a teaching job at the City University of New York, he had a choice between one union […] Quote of the Day CBO’s methods of analyzing single payer Medicare for All December 11, 2020 By CBO’s Single-Payer Health Care Systems Team Congressional Budget Office, December 2020 Abstract In this paper, CBO describes the methods it has developed to analyze the federal budgetary costs of proposals for single-payer health care systems that are based on the Medicare fee-for-service program. Five illustrative options show how differences in payment rates, cost sharing, […] Quote of the Day Stuart Butler’s proposal for an equitable national health system December 10, 2020 By Stuart M. Butler Brookings, December 9, 2020 SUMMARY The American health system is rife with gaps and inequities. The result is inadequate or no insurance and services for millions of families and unacceptable differences in resources and health conditions related to income, race, and location. Resources are misallocated, the health care infrastructure in many […] Quote of the Day American Hospital Association on commercial health plan abuses December 9, 2020 American Hospital Association, December 2020 Introduction Health care coverage has never been more important as the nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic – now and for the foreseeable future. Two-thirds of the population relies on the private sector for health insurance coverage and thus access to health care. While private health insurance coverage has long served […] Quote of the Day Bob Hess Sr. December 8, 2020 By Emilie Raguso Berkeleyside, December 5, 2020 Bob Hess Sr., an iconic figure in the world of Bay Area horse racing, died Saturday morning after being diagnosed in mid-November with COVID-19, Golden Gate Fields racetrack announced. Hess came down with COVID-19 amid a widespread outbreak at Golden Gate Fields that initially resulted in more than […] Quote of the Day What does the Becerra HHS nomination do for Medicare for All? December 7, 2020 By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D. Shear The New York Times, December 6, 2020 President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Xavier Becerra, the Democratic attorney general of California, as his nominee for secretary of health and human services, tapping a former congressman who would be the first Latino to run the department as […] Quote of the Day Fragmented health systems: The misalignment between global health security and universal health coverage December 4, 2020 By Arush Lal, M.Sc.; Ngozi A Erondu, Ph.D.; David L Heymann, M.D.; Githinji Gitahi, M.D.; Robert Yates, M.B.A. The Lancet, December 1, 2020 Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous strain on countries around the world, exposing long-standing gaps in public health and exacerbating chronic inequities. Although research and analyses have attempted to draw important […] Quote of the Day Why have a policy that excludes same-sex spouses from coverage? December 3, 2020 By Lindsey Dawson, Matthew Rae, and Jennifer Kates KFF, November 30, 2020 Background The legal and policy landscape regarding protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity in health care and other areas has shifted markedly in the last decade. Most recently, on June 15, 2020 in Bostock vs. Clayton County, the Supreme Court of […] Quote of the Day We can do better than international reference pricing for drugs December 2, 2020 By Anirban Basu, Peter J. Neumann, Sean Sullivan Health Affairs Blog, December 2, 2020 Pharmaceutical pricing is a perpetually contentious policy issue. Branded drug list prices grew annually by 9.1 percent over the last decade. The growth rate in net prices (reflecting discounts and rebates) was lower, at around 4.5 percent, but still much higher […] Quote of the Day Have high deductibles slowed spending growth? December 1, 2020 By Claudio Lucarelli, Molly Frean, Aliza S. Gordon, Lynn M. Hua, and Mark Pauly National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2020 Abstract The growth of health care spending has been a longstanding policy concern. Over the years, several innovations have been proposed to lower levels of health care spending; however, their impact has been limited […] Quote of the Day Posts pagination Newer 1 … 10 11 12 13 14 … 53 Older
