The White House wants states to drop certificate of need laws in hopes of lowering health care costs. Researchers and state leaders are split.
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‘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.
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Letter from the Editor: A Consequential Year
A message from Tradeoffs founder and executive editor Dan Gorenstein.
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Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
Facing mounting financial pressures, insurance companies are changing the prescription drug coverage available to many consumers in Medicare Part D.
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What Would Actually Lower Drug Prices in America? Experts Weigh In
Some of America’s top scholars on prescription drug pricing outline steps the Trump administration could take to make medicines more affordable.
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Will Trump’s Prescription Drug Deals Really Lower Prices?
Facing unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration, some of the world’s top drugmakers promise to cut prices. But experts say the savings might not be what they seem.
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Watch: Obamacare Subsidies at a Crossroads
Experts discuss what the loss of Obamacare subsidies means to patients and costs within the ACA insurance marketplace.
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Obamacare Premiums Are About to Soar. How’d We Get Here?
Federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans are set to shrink next year. Many shoppers are expected to be priced out, leaving those who stay with higher premiums. The dynamic that threatens to leave markets with fewer and more expensive options as insurers exit, too. How did we get here?
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Helping Some of America’s Costliest Patients Could Get A Lot Harder
Some people’s lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly flare into $10,000 hospital visits. Health care experts have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?
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What Cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare Could Mean for Hospitals, Insurers and You
As Republicans consider major changes to Medicaid and Obamacare, we asked a leading economist about the shockwaves these sharp policy shifts could send throughout the entire health care system.