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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.
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.
Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
It’s time to move from rage to regulation, an insurance expert argues.
Insurers in many ways are the face of US health care, which may help explain the public reaction to the murder of an insurance executive.
Caught up in the latest Medibank cybersecurity breach? Not happy with your premiums? Here’s what you need to know about switching health insurer.
More Nigerians should be encouraged to have health insurance to reduce the burden of treating facial injuries.
The Affordable Care Act has allowed many preventive health services, including cancer screenings and vaccines, to be free of charge. But legal challenges may lead to costly repercussions for patients.
Often the main differences among plans involve a long list of varying deductibles, co-pays and other out-of-pocket expenses, which can be tough to analyze.
Young people don’t see the value in private health insurance and are dropping their cover in droves. Allowing under 55s to pay lower premiums, based on their lower risk, could keep them in the system.
Whether a 10% discount is enough to increase health insurance take-up by young people, many of whom are in precarious employment arrangements or unemployed, is a question for the marketeers.
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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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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, UMass Amherst
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Senior Research Scholar in Gerontology, Miami University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Dayton
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Lecturer and Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Health Economics, University of Toronto
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