The ambitious plan has required big changes from providers and health insurers.
Health Insurance
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Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess
People shopping for Medicare coverage struggle with too many choices, too little help and an alarming amount of deception.
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Could Health Insurance Bureaucracy Be a Good Thing?
A recent working paper adds fuel to the debate over when and how health insurers should be able to ration people’s use of care.
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The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they need.
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Experts Share Four Key Studies you Might have Missed this Summer
Experts from the Tradeoffs Advisory Board share some of their favorite new health policy studies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid
We dig into three studies to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
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When Politics and Policy Collide on the Obamacare Exchanges
A creative working paper examines how Obamacare’s political baggage has made health insurance more expensive.