Whether a young person has public or private insurance – or is uninsured or underinsured – significantly influences their risk of death across many cancer types.
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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.
The pilot, launched in January 2026 in 6 states, could reduce wasteful spending, but increases provider paperwork and risks patient access to necessary care.
When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase.
Why does health care reform keep failing despite decades of attention and expanding costs? A scholar of Congress has some answers.
US health care policy will remain fractured until lawmakers address the core question of who is responsible for health care costs.
While hospital CEO salaries and health insurance premiums have increased, health care quality has not.
Millions of Americans rely on this network of federally funded health clinics for their primary care.
Instead of treating creative work as a legitimate field, US labor policy, copyright law and the tax code have failed to offer artists stability or protection.
Florida relies on marketplace plans far more heavily than any other state. If subsidies are eliminated, health insurance will be unaffordable for many Floridians.
Short-term renewals of policies such as the ACA subsidies set up repeated battles in Congress.
As the battle for health care plays out in Washington, the shutdown itself could also make it harder for Americans to get the care they need.
Private health insurers want to fund more out-of-hospital care. Here’s why that’s such a problem.
Those signs about surprise insurance charges are intended to keep patients informed – but new research points to a negative side effect.
Here’s what you need to know about the different types of cover. And if your claim is rejected, what to do next.
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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 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 Economics, 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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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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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Dean of the Sol Price School of Public Policy; Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, Public Policy, and Economics, University of Southern California
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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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Assistant professor of Health Policy & Administration, University of Illinois Chicago
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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, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science