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The biggest reason health care in the United States costs so much more than in other wealthy countries is that it takes more, and more highly paid, people to deliver care, says Quintiles Senior Fellow Bob Kocher. He offers policy solutions for improving labor productivity.

A new USC Schaeffer Center study shows the return on investing in improving educational attainment for those diagnosed with serious mental illness by age twenty-five, projecting positive impacts on health and economic outcomes.

Initiative researchers propose a blueprint for achieving universal coverage at a manageable fiscal cost and with minimal disruption for the hundreds of millions of Americans who are already insured.

Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young provides an overview of the legal challenges the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced since its enactment, recent developments in a lawsuit regarding the ACA’s constitutionality, and what the latest claims could mean for the credibility of the Department of Justice.

The industry could profit by helping policyholders pay for cancer treatments that prolong life.

USC Trustee Leonard D. Schaeffer and his wife, Pamela, announced a new $17 million gift to the USC Schaeffer Center on the eve of the center’s 10th anniversary. They founded the USC Schaeffer Center decade ago to support rigorous research addressing health policy challenges.

Senior Fellow Bob Kocher paired with Zeke Emanuel examine why artificial intelligence may lead to more evidence-based care, more personalized care, and fewer errors, it has the potential to unintentionally exacerbate many of the worst aspects of our current healthcare system.

The experts recommendations to the Senate committee aimed at four main goals: improving incentives in private insurance, removing state regulatory barriers to provider market competition, improving incentives in the Medicare program, and promoting competition in the pharmaceutical market.

Ten years ago, Leonard Schaeffer shared his vision with USC leadership: he envisioned an academic center that was grounded in the rigorous, evidence-based research of a university, but would move beyond the university to inform health policy.