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September 8, 2011 | Journal Article
The long-term trend of consolidation among U.S. health plans has raised providers' concerns that the concentration of health plan markets can depress their prices.
August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Researchers surveyed physicians and administrators in the province of Ontario, Canada, about time spent interacting with payers and compared the results with a national companion survey in the United States. If U.S. physicians had administrative costs similar to those of Ontario physicians, the total savings would be approximately $27.6 billion per year.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
High copayments for medical services can cause patients to underuse essential therapies.
September 9, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether affordability thresholds of financial strain due to medical bills change over time. The increasing cost of health care is a central issue in health policy and out-of-pocket spending for families has grown faster than incomes in the past decade.
May 12, 2010 | Commentary
Economist Victor Fuchs, Ph.D., outlines what distinguishes health care from other goods and services and why we should be concerned about rising health care expenditures.
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief estimates the cost and coverage implications of the key provisions of the bill passed by the House of Representatives in November 2009.
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.
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.
June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Various factors, including the mechanism for setting prices, contribute to distortions and inefficiencies in health insurance markets. This paper reviews analyses of how moral hazard compensates for inefficiencies and increases economic benefits of insurance markets.
October 1, 2011 | Commentary
Making judgments about how much a person could pay for health insurance is difficult?even for an expert panel member.