Medicaid enrollment surged during the pandemic, then tumbled during the Great Unwinding – reflecting how paperwork and state policy determine who keeps health coverage.
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To lower health care costs, the Trump administration will have to wrangle a complex system fraught with competing interests.
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Health policy and politics scholars expect political fallout from the federal response to the pandemic will play out for years, with trust in government taking a big hit.
Among the issues candidates will debate Tuesday night is health care – an important, yet confusing, topic for viewers. An expert simplifies, explaining where and what the candidates stand for.
There’s a very simple way to give Medicare to all: delete six words from the legislation that created the program in 1965.
The Trump administration’s proposal to lower drug prices focuses on discounts. A health policy scholar argues that the US could learn from Europe’s system of measuring drug value and effectiveness.
The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
The opening session of a meeting of neurologists focused on a problem plaguing doctors: burnout. Doctors are growing increasingly stressed, and it’s affecting patients, too.
The AMA are pushing for simplified insurance packages that would see gold, silver and bronze products offered. This won’t solve the overall problem with private health insurance.
A plan to fine hospitals for avoidable hospitalisations and pay GPs to prevent them has many issues. The main problem is that it’s impossible to measure the outcomes of health care in Australia.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
Double-digit premium increases are leading to an outcry that the Affordable Care Act is not working, yet parts of it are. Here’s what works, and ideas on how to fix what doesn’t.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota
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University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Managing Director of Health, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Senior Research Fellow (Hon), University of Sydney. Editor, Health Information Management Journal (HIMJ), University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor of Management, The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business, Belmont University
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Professor emeritus, University of the Pacific