We explain how Medicare’s historic price negotiations with drugmakers will work, and the impact they could have.
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Posted inPublic Health
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
During his 14 months as White House COVID Coordinator, Ashish Jha learned about building consensus, crafting practical policy and how to deal with imperfect data.
Posted inMental Health
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line’s First Year
We explore what’s working, what’s not and what’s next for 988.
Posted inInsurance
One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. She’s finally concluded that it’s time to tear the whole system down.
Posted inInsurance
1.5 Million People Are Losing Medicaid. How Worried Should We Be?
We go behind the numbers of the first few months of the Medicaid unwinding.
Posted inHealth Law
‘No Place Else To Go’: Inside a Former Abortion Clinic
What happens when an abortion clinic can no longer provide abortions?
Posted inInsurance
The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance
What’s gained and what’s lost as private insurers manage an increasingly large share of the Medicare program?
Posted inHealth Equity
What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy
We get a sneak peek at some of the most exciting papers coming out of a major health economics conference.
Posted inHealth Technology
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
The Biden administration is proposing new regulations to keep racial bias in AI from getting to the bedside.
Posted inHealth Technology
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care. It could also perpetuate and exacerbate generations of racial inequities.