Healthcare Reform
Our work in Healthcare Reform
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Expansion of Children’s Health Insurance Program Linked to Substantial Changes in Practice Decisions of New Pediatricians
Study findings indicate program funding has direct implications on new pediatricians’ decisions to enter markets.
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Supply‐Side Effects from Public Insurance Expansions: Evidence from Physician Labor Markets
Medicaid and CHIP policies influence labor market decisions of pediatricians.
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Treatment-Specific Payment Approaches: The Case Of Macular Degeneration
Treatment for neovascular or wet age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is an area where a change in Medicare Part B payment specific to this procedure has far more potential for substantial reductions in spending.
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Repealing the Individual Mandate Would Do Substantial Harm
Advocates of repealing the mandate claim that its repeal would do no harm. However, this argument suffers from two serious flaws.
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Lifetime Consequences of Early-Life and Midlife Access to Health Insurance: A Review
The researchers reviewed 112 experimental or quasi-experimental studies on the effects of health insurance prior to people becoming eligible for Medicare on a broad set of outcomes.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Reform: Balancing Costs, Coverage and Quality
Thursday | November 16, 2017
3:00 PM- 6:30 PM PT
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Universal Coverage on a Budget
The researchers outline a plan for healthcare reform that reins in healthcare spending and ensures all Americans are guaranteed basic protection.
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States Have Already Tried Trump’s Healthcare Order. It Went Badly.
Like many appealing ideas, this one, proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has hidden land mines that are already well-mapped out based on previous failed attempts to enact them, even in Paul’s home state of Kentucky.
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How will the Graham-Cassidy Proposal Affect the Number of People with Health Insurance Coverage?
Based on this analysis, we estimate that the Graham-Cassidy legislation would reduce the number of people with insurance coverage by around 21 million each year during the 2020 through 2026 period.
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A Better Approach to Regulating Provider Network Adequacy
Health care reforms, including those put in place by the Affordable Care Act, are making insurers more competitive. However, in their effort to lower costs, health insurers more often are selling health plans that cover fewer hospitals, and many fewer physicians. This narrowing of provider networks is a sign that market reforms may be improving […]
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