Healthcare Reform
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House Plan to Replace Obamacare ‘has Republican DNA,’ Especially Regarding Mandate
Does the new health care bill proposed by GOP leaders on March 6 contain enough incentives to keep enough healthy people in the pool of people who desire coverage?
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Expect the CBO to Estimate Large Coverage Losses from the GOP Health Care Plan
In anticipation of the official CBO estimates, this blog post draws upon prior CBO estimates and analysis to assess how they will likely expect this legislation to impact insurance coverage.
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How Republicans and Democrats can Both Keep their Promises on Health Care
Read our four-step market-based proposal that is consistent with many of the president’s remarks on health care and, importantly, with many core Democratic principles on health care too.
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Do You Know What The Affordable Care Act Does? Here’s A Primer To Help
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” has generated controversy from its inception. Republicans vow to repeal it. Democrats vow to defend it. Yet, unfortunately, many ordinary Americans seem not to know what it does or why some people want to reform it.
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Sood’s Health Research Cited in 2017 Economic Report of the President
The report is the final overview of the nation’s economic progress offered by the Obama administration.
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New Data on Sign-ups Through the ACA’s Marketplaces Should Lay “Death Spiral” Claims to Rest
Comparing enrollment changes across states implies that Marketplace premium increases had little if any impact on Marketplace sign-ups, providing strong evidence against claims that these increases would send the individual market into a “death spiral.”
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Four Recommendations to Advance Medicare Delivery System Reform
MACRA assumes a wide range of attractive APM opportunities available to physicians, but the reality is that the opportunities are limited, especially for physicians in specialties outside of primary care.
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Why Risk Adjustment is a Crucial Component of Individual Market Reform
In order to mitigate incentives for insurance companies to avoid sicker patients, policymakers will need to include a risk adjustment program in any replacement reforms that require insurers to issue insurance to any applicant and set limits on adjusting premiums to fully reflect an enrollee’s health status.
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Building a Better “Cadillac”
The excise tax on premiums paid for high-cost employer-sponsored plans, also known as the Cadillac tax, is an important provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and should be retained even if the larger law is repealed because it will not only help control the growth of health care spending but also will provide revenues needed to pay for any potential ACA replacement
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Effects of Payment Reform in More Versus Less Competitive Markets
Neeraj Sood and his colleagues find in home healthcare, payment reforms are most effective in competitive provider markets.
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