Gene therapies can cure once-incurable diseases, but without payment reform, America’s insurance system will keep them out of reach for many patients.
Excerpt Medicare beneficiaries face an onslaught of complex choices and predatory misinformation. Recent qualitative research reveals SHIP counselors’ experiences providing support
SHIP was created to help Medicare beneficiaries understand their coverage, but it’s been unclear who the program is helping.
Medicare’s current financial trajectory isn’t sustainable so we need to do something different.
The American healthcare debate is often a pendulum swinging between two extremes: maintaining the status quo and adopting a single-payer system. But what if we’re
Massachusetts’ new dental insurance reform law went into effect on January 1, 2024, but benefits for patients are unknown.
With Medicare’s Open Enrollment period approaching, the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) can provide free, unbiased health-insurance counseling to help beneficiaries’ decision-making process.
While health care sharing ministries are an unregulated, risky alternative to traditional insurance coverage, some find the freedom and cost savings they provide attractive.
When life-altering therapies are available, but largely out of reach for certain groups of people, it’s worth considering who innovation in the health care system is actually for.
Compared to the rest of the world, the US healthcare system is not working so great. Basic economics can help us better understand what’s happening.
Health insurance: the holy grail of the US hospital patient. While it isn’t perfect, it does often make a big difference in a patient’s bottom
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a drastic rise in unemployment, disrupting access to health insurance and resurfacing discussions of our reliance on employer-sponsored insurance. Basic economics can help us better understand what’s going on.
