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Health Policy

September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic

Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.

Government Payment for Health Care

December 2, 2010 | Commentary

The United States has extremely costly health care relative to countries with national health insurance because of the role of special interests in the American political system and because of a lack of emphasis on redistribution of resources.

Bending the Cost Curve

October 12, 2009 | Commentary

This commentary identifies methods to slow the increase in health care costs in the United States. The current proposed expansion of health insurance will cost the country an estimated trillion dollars over 10 years. To make this expansion possible, increases in the cost of health care must be curbed.

Cost Shifting Does Not Reduce the Cost of Health Care

September 2, 2009 | Commentary

This commentary addresses the differences between cost shifting and cost cutting and identifies the reasons why health care in the United States is more expensive per capita than the health care of any other nation.

Expert Reflection

October 1, 2011 | Commentary

Making judgments about how much a person could pay for health insurance is difficult?even for an expert panel member.

Does Pay-for-Performance Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?

September 1, 2010 | Commentary

Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.