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Three Ways to Make Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment Work
Successful auto-enrollment likely requires changes to the way we determine eligibility for Medicaid and Marketplace financial assistance, to make the system easier to navigate and more generous, writes USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young.
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State Approaches to Mitigating Surprise Out-of-Network Billing
Schaeffer Initiative researchers explore why surprise out-of-network billing occurs and how federal and state governments can respond to eliminate these surprise bills and reduce inflated health care costs.
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Effects of Weakening Safeguards in the Administration’s Health Reimbursement Arrangement Proposal
Researchers from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy discuss the negative effects of allowing firms to subsidize the purchase of individual market coverage and why the associated costs are likely to outweigh the benefits to employers and their workers.
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Evaluating the Administration’s Health Reimbursement Arrangement Proposal
Schaeffer Initiative experts describe the recent proposed rule by HHS that would loosen the rules governing Health Reimbursement Arrangements and its likely effects on insurance markets, employers, workers, and Marketplaces.
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Medicare Graduate Medical Education Funding is Not Addressing the Primary Care Shortage: We Need a Radically Different Approach
Schaeffer Initiative experts evaluate the impact of Medicare funding for hospitals, physicians and medical education on specialty selection by new doctors.
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State Individual Mandates: Hows and Whys
State mandates are a straightforward way to avert the negative consequence of federal mandate repeal at the state level, according to the latest analysis out of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative.
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How Would Individual Market Premiums Change in 2019 in a Stable Policy Environment?
Matthew Fielder examines how premiums would change in 2019 absent recent policy changes that are set to take effect.
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Stabilizing and Strengthening the Individual Health Insurance Market
Mark Hall examines the causes of instability in the individual market and identifies measures to help improve stability based off of interviews with key stakeholders in 10 states.
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How did the ACA’s Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Coverage Decisions by Higher Income People
Matthew Fiedler presents evidence that the ACA’s individual mandate did indeed cause substantial increases in insurance coverage.
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Improving Bundled Payments in the Medicare Program
John Romley and Paul Ginsburg look at three ways to improve the effectiveness of bundled payment systems.