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How will the House GOP Health Care Bill Affect Individual Market Premiums?
Schaeffer Initiative experts estimate that premiums would be around 13% higher under the AHCA than they are under current law, holding plan generosity and the individual market age distribution fixed at their current law levels.
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Improving Hospital Incentives with Better Cost Data
The method currently used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to set Medicare payment rates is fairly crude. CMS could draw on cost data that are produced by hospitals’ internal systems to increase the efficiency of the health care system.
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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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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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Alzheimer’s-Preventing Drugs May Already Exist – We Just Can’t Test Them
Many people who use statins to fight heart disease seem to be on a slower track for developing Alzheimer’s compared to the rest of the population. Yet multiple hurdles stand in the way for this sort of study.
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Outcomes-Based Pricing as a Tool to Ensure Access to Novel but Expensive Biopharmaceuticals
Without new pricing models, insurers and manufacturers will remain at odds about reimbursement, leaving physicians and patients stuck in the middle.
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