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  • Recent posts

    • What can we expect from re-opening HealthCare.gov? Hope.
    • The Rising Crisis of Underinsurance: How the Biden Administration May Shape Inequities in Patient Affordability
    • How Genomics Improve Cancer Survival and Patient Quality of Life: The Healthcare Triage Podcast
    • The End of Surprise Billing for Medical Care?
    • Drug Prices by Committee: One Way Biden Could Lower Costs
    • Recent publications from Boston University’s Department of Health Law, Policy and Management: February 2021 Edition
    • Out-of-network payments in Medicare Advantage
    • Cancer Journal: What is health?
    • Should You Worry About Covid Vaccine Side Effects?
    • U.S. should prepare for a COVID-19 hospital consolidation surge
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    This FAQ is a work in progress. All answers will be a list of links to posts in the TIE archives. You can participate by submitting questions. Better, you can even supply the answers if you do the work to search the archives yourself. User-supplied answers will be posted with attribution, if you wish.

    ACA

    • Will employers drop offers of health insurance after the ACA’s insurance exchanges are implemented?

    Medicare

    • What are some problems with Medicare spending?
    • What are consequences of raising the Medicare retirement age?
    • What’s good and bad about Medicare Part D?
    • What’s good, bad, and ugly about premium support?
    Medicaid
    • What does Medicaid do?

    Cost Shifting

    • To what extent do hospitals cost shift, or charge private payers more for shortfalls in public payment?
    • How much cost shifting is due to the uninsured?
    • How much cost shifting is there by physicians?
    • How much cost shifting is there in the pharmaceutical industry?

    Health Care Prices and Spending

    • What is the effect of hospital market concentration on hospital prices?
    • What are the consequences of insurer market power?
    • What makes the US health care system so expensive?
    • How does the US health system compare to that of other nations?
    • What is “competitive bidding”? How does it work? Etc.
    • Which controls health care costs better, public programs or private insurers?
    • What does big pharma do?

    Health Care Quality

    • How do we rate the quality of the US health care system?
    • How low is US mortality?

    Health Insurance

    • Does health insurance save lives/improve health?
    • What does increasing cost sharing (deductibles, copayments) do?
    • How does health insurance distort the labor market (job lock)?

    Health Care Delivery

    • What does research tell us about the value of prostate cancer screening and treatment?
    • Why isn’t emergency department care adequate health care? 

    The Value of Health Care

    • How much does health care contribute to health?
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