Economist Neale Mahoney explains the research into strategies for relief from high healthcare costs and evaluates policy fixes to protect consumers.
Dan Gorenstein
Dan is the Founder and Executive Editor of Tradeoffs, setting the vision for the organization’s journalism and strategy. Before Tradeoffs, he was the senior health care reporter at Marketplace and spent 11 years at New Hampshire Public Radio. He got his start in journalism at the Chicago Reporter, an investigative journal that examines race and class disparities in the Chicago area. Dan’s work has earned numerous national awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award. He is based in Philadelphia.
Posted inHealth Equity
Medicaid Overhaul Complicates States’ Plans to Bring Care Into Jails and Prisons
Funding cuts and program changes required by H.R. 1 are forcing states to make hard choices about the future of this bipartisan experiment.
Posted inCost of Care
Where Did the No Surprises Act Go Wrong? And Can It Be Fixed?
A live conversation with national experts about the unexpected impacts of the consumer protection law, what could be done to change things, and what lessons can be learned about crafting complicated health policy.
Posted inMental Health
Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative
Hundreds of U.S. courts offer treatment over prison for some defendants with mental illness. But critics say mental health courts have outpaced research on their effectiveness.
Posted inCost of Care
Republicans Want to Change How You Buy Health Care
President Trump and other leading conservatives are pushing policies they hope will empower patients to shop more wisely for the health care they need.
Posted inCost of Care
The U.S. Saved $1 Trillion on Health Care. Why Doesn’t It Feel Like It?
New research from leading health economist David Cutler explores what’s behind a historic slowdown in health spending, even as millions of Americans struggle to afford their care.
Posted inCost of Care
Doctors Hated the No Surprises Act. Now Some Are Getting Rich Off of It.
Doctors are winning big paydays from insurers under a law intended to protect patients and rein in high prices.
Posted inInsurance
New York Braces for Trump’s Big Medicaid Shakeup
The state’s Medicaid director Amir Bassiri shares his plans for blunting the effects of Republican health reforms — starting with work requirements.
Posted inPublic Health
Trump’s Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
The administration is looking to former health care executive Chris Klomp to help RFK Jr. get Trump’s health agenda back on track.
Posted inInsurance
‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
An employer in Chicago describes how another year of rising premiums forced her to consider dropping her workers’ insurance.