Having health insurance or being eligible for care doesn’t guarantee that it is truly within reach.
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In 2019 Zambia introduced a National Health Insurance Scheme to help more people access healthcare and move the country closer to universal health coverage.
For many gig workers, app-based work is no longer just about extra cash but economic need, a new survey finds.
New research shows what happens if the extra health insurance rebate for over-65s is scrapped, as planned. Here’s why the sky won’t fall in.
For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.
Traveling to Mexico for routine healthcare can be convenient and affordable – but the cues patients rely on to judge quality of care may differ in important ways.
Research shows that losing coverage, even temporarily, tends to make people less healthy, and it exposes them to financial losses.
In an emergency, you can’t always use your private health insurance. And even if you do, you can face these out-of-pocket costs.
A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
Changes in how healthcare is managed have had a meaningful effect on what contraceptive options are available to women.
A ‘no gap’ private health arrangement sounds great, but you may not be able to choose your specialist. Here’s what else you need to know.
A better deal on your private health insurance may be just a phone call away. What have you got to lose?
Medicaid enrollment surged during the pandemic, then tumbled during the Great Unwinding – reflecting how paperwork and state policy determine who keeps health coverage.
Whether a young person has public or private insurance – or is uninsured or underinsured – significantly influences their risk of death across many cancer types.
If you had your appendix out recently, does your insurer need to know? Different rules apply depending on the type of insurance. Here’s what you need to know.
If the government wants to pursue more public-private partnerships, it must consider a funding model that guarantees equity of access.
The US health insurance system requires that people make strategic and often risky decisions about how much health insurance they can afford and how much coverage they might need.
Scaling back Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program could mean a resurgence of HIV/AIDS and increased health care costs throughout the state.
The government has allowed private health insurers to raise premiums by an average of 4.41% from April. How are these set? And why is it higher than inflation?
To lower health care costs, the Trump administration will have to wrangle a complex system fraught with competing interests.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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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 Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences, Tulane University
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Research Scientist of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, UMass Amherst
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Research Scientist and Director of Research Training in Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University