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People Cost Even More Than Drugs: The Imperative For Productivity
The biggest reason health care in the United States costs so much more than in other wealthy countries is that it takes more, and more highly paid, people to deliver care, says Quintiles Senior Fellow Bob Kocher. He offers policy solutions for improving labor productivity.
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Building on the ACA to Achieve Universal Coverage
Initiative researchers propose a blueprint for achieving universal coverage at a manageable fiscal cost and with minimal disruption for the hundreds of millions of Americans who are already insured.
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PODCAST: The Trump Administration’s New Challenge to the Affordable Care Act
Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young provides an overview of the legal challenges the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced since its enactment, recent developments in a lawsuit regarding the ACA’s constitutionality, and what the latest claims could mean for the credibility of the Department of Justice.
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Health Care’s Killer App: Life Insurance
The industry could profit by helping policyholders pay for cancer treatments that prolong life.
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Will Robots Replace Doctors?
Senior Fellow Bob Kocher paired with Zeke Emanuel examine why artificial intelligence may lead to more evidence-based care, more personalized care, and fewer errors, it has the potential to unintentionally exacerbate many of the worst aspects of our current healthcare system.
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Joint Recommendations of USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy and AEI Scholars to Reduce Healthcare Costs
The experts recommendations to the Senate committee aimed at four main goals: improving incentives in private insurance, removing state regulatory barriers to provider market competition, improving incentives in the Medicare program, and promoting competition in the pharmaceutical market.
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A New Way to Pay for Innovative Drugs, Provide Universal Access and Not Break the Bank
Neeraj Sood penned an analysis of Louisiana’s new path to curing hepatitis C among its Medicaid and prison populations. It is the first state to implement a solution proposed by Sood in a National Academies of Sciences consensus report and in a leading medical journal.
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Federal Policy to End Surprise Billing: Building on Prior Approaches
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts review differences among two proposals to combat surprise medical bills in the 115th Congress and outline some key considerations for the next wave of federal surprise billing policy.
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Ending Drug Rebates will Increase Medicare Part D Premiums, but Most Seniors will be Insulated From It
Erin Trish and Dana Goldman argue eliminating drug rebates will increase the cost of Medicare Part D premiums, but most seniors will be not feel the effects. They say seniors should ignore pharmacy benefit managers’ alarm raised by the proposal.
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