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.
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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?
While hospital CEO salaries and health insurance premiums have increased, health care quality has not.
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.
Drop, suspend, downgrade or keep? Many people are feeling the pinch and wondering if private heath insurance is worth keeping during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what to consider.
In most markets, diversity and choice foster robust competition. In health insurance they could lead to fragmentation and market failure.
Republicans have tried dozens of times to repeal Obamacare, but their biggest challenge has been the lack of a workable replacement plan. Here’s an idea devised by two health economists.
Each year private health insurance funds lobby the government to increase private health insurance premiums. They claim increases are warranted because of increasing costs.
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) has written a proposal to repeal Obamacare, a program under the Department of Health and Human Services, which he would head. Here are things to consider for his next hearing.
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it?
While it’s hard to separate fact from hysteria when it comes to the Affordable Care Act, here are some expert voices to explain some of the candidates’ proposals on the health care law.
The Affordable Care Act increased the number of insured people, but skeptics have suggested the increase could be due to higher employment rates. That’s not the case, a detailed study suggests.
The Financial Services Council code of conduct for life insurance is the industry’s last chance to reform before the government steps in.
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Karen Willis is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Professor, Business School, University of Sydney
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Political Scientist Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles
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Department of Economics, Usery Workplace Research Group, Georgia State University
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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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Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Rice University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
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The Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine., University of Chicago
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor and Chair of Health Economics, Rice University