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Obesity, Second to Smoking as the Most Preventable Cause of US Deaths, Needs New Approaches
Nearly 40% of Americans are obese, and the numbers are climbing. The U.S. needs to get serious about solutions.
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States Need to Wake up to Public Health Risks From Cannabis
Legalizing cannabis brings states notable benefits, like a boost in tax revenues. But they’ve pushed public health considerations to the sidelines.
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Policy Issues in Dialysis Care
The challenges that policymakers face when trying to encourage the delivery of high quality, cost‐efficient dialysis care to all patients who require dialysis are evident in the state of dialysis care today.
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Remanding Texas v. U.S. to the Lower Court Prolongs Harms to Consumers and the Health Care Industry
How will remanding Texas v. U.S. case to the lower court will affect the health care market? Drug manufacturers face tremendous scientific uncertainty while ACA funding has clearly become a major component in state spending.
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Provider Charges Relative to Medicare Rates, 2012-2017
Researchers examined data on charges for providers treating Medicare patients and compared them to Medicare’s set payment rate across specialties. They found specialties possessing the ability to surprise bill out-of-network patients higher charges relative to Medicare rates than other specialties.
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What the Trump Administration Gets Right About Hospital Price Transparency
Would you buy a pair of shoes without knowing the price? Consumers have bought medical care from hospitals for years without knowing the costs, but new regulations will change that.
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To Really Cut Health Spending, Put Pharmacists on the Front Line
Sixteen percent of all U.S. healthcare expenditures can be attributed to patients failing to properly adhere to their prescriptions. Pharmacists can be an important, and valuable, part of a patient’s care team.
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Who Pays in Medicare Part D? Giving Plans More Skin in the Game
Private plans have the potential to lead the way toward innovative contracting approaches that emphasize value and, in doing so, deliver on the original vision for the Part D marketplace.
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PODCAST: The Biggest Health Care Issues of the 2020 Election
In this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, health policy experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative discuss the presidential candidates’ health proposals, and also look at what to do about surprise medical billing.
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The Success of Medicare Advantage Makes it a Better Policy Choice than ‘Medicare for All’
This public-private partnership is delivering high-quality health care at comparatively low cost.
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