Insurance and Provider Markets
Our work in Insurance and Provider Markets
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(De)stabilizing the ACA’s Individual Market: A View from the States
Market stabilization is currently the most critical regulatory issue that public policy officials are facing. We present strategies for stabilizing the individual market.
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Fixing Health Care: Driving Value Through Smart Purchasing and Policy
Alex Azar outlined the challenges and opportunities for public and private action in the healthcare system.
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Why Health Price Regulations in California are Misguided
Imposing uniform payment rates is dangerous and misguided, writes Trish and Goldman in the Sacramento Bee.
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Walmart and CVS Have 15,000 Combined Stores. Why are Both Trying to Buy Health Insurance Companies?
Trish and Goldman write these vertical megadeals will certainly disrupt care patterns and lower costs, but no one can know whether the savings will flow to shareholder or patients in the LA Times.
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How Would Health Market Changes Affect Patient Care? Trish Shares Research with Policymakers
Trish informs policymakers at the state and federal level about market trends.
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Southern California Health Care Summit: Strategies for Improving the Affordability of High-Quality Care and Coverage
The USC Schaeffer Center and the National Coalition on Health Care are bringing together a distinguished group of health care experts to discuss advances in practice and policy that can improve the affordability of health care – for patients and families, employers, public and private payers, and providers.
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What’s Ahead for the Individual Health Insurance Market?
The Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy and the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will co-host an event examining where the individual insurance market is today and where it is heading.
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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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Medicare Advantage: Better Information Tools, Better Beneficiary Choices, Better Competition
Since the 1970s, and codified in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, Medicare beneficiaries have had the choice of receiving their Medicare benefits through private health plans instead of the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program administered by the federal government. The policy thrust of private plan participation in Medicare is that competition […]
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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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