Health Care
Medicaid Expansion May Lead to Higher Hospital Prices
A new report in Health Affairs details how North Carolina's Medicaid expansion may expose patients to higher hospital bills.
Health Affairs
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Health Care
Obamacare Turns 12: Is Healthcare More Affordable?
Obamacare was sold on multiple lies. You couldn't keep your plan if you liked it, and it most certainly did not make healthcare more affordable.
Liberty
The Questionable “Science and Data” Guiding the Cooper Administration
The week before Gov. Roy Cooper announced his statewide mask mandate, DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen went in front of the NC House Health Committee to make the case for masking…
Health Care
Medicare Trust Fund outlook worsened by COVID
As our country continues to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the resulting impacts are starting to come into focus. The Medicare Part A Trust fund…
Health Care
Rolling Back Restrictive Regulations: Health Care
The health care industry has undergone many major changes in the 21st century, but North Carolina’s rules and regulations haven’t kept up. That is the theme of JLF’s Jordan Roberts’…
Liberty
2018 National health expenditures
Health Affairs released a new report detailing overall health spending for 2018. Here are the numbers: National health expenditures = National health expenditures rose 4.6% to 3.6 trillion in 2018.…
Health Care
Trump administration’s new transparency rule
Last week the Trump administration announced it would begin forcing hospitals to publically disclose the rates in which they negotiate with insurers. I wrote about this on the blog back…
Research Brief
Health Care
Indiana and the Fight to Lower Health Care Costs
We know the lack of price transparency in health care is a significant problem. Health care isn’t purchased like any other product. In most cases, patients outsource consumer power to…
Health Care
CJ Commentary: Transparency essential to health reform
This week, syndicated columnist John Hood published an opinion piece in Carolina Journal on transparency in health care. According to Hood: When State Treasurer Dale Folwell took office in early…
Research Brief
Health Care
Lowering Health Care Spending Through Competitive Bidding
It’s no secret that Americans pay more for health care than any other industrialized country in the world. In 2017, health care spending reached $3.5 trillion or roughly $10,739 a…
Research Brief
Health Care
Managing Medicaid Through Managed Care
It’s nearly impossible to discuss the cost, access, or quality of the U.S. health care system without circling back to Medicaid – the joint federal and state program that provides health…
Health Care
Less regulation, more value
In the past, I have written about a healthcare payment model commonly referred to as “patient-centered” or “value-based” care (see here, here, and here). The idea behind patient-centered care is…