Note: A similar version of this article was originally published by Law & Liberty. The affordability issue is taking center stage in national political discourse this year. Foremost in this debate…
Benedic Ippolito offers ideas for cutting American health care costs. The data show that health spending poses a first-order challenge for federal policymakers, especially if recent cost trends persist. Any…
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.
This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published a research brief on a national report conducted by the Health Care Cost Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. According to Roberts: [the…
There are several prominent players in the health care delivery process. There are patients, physicians, insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmacy benefit managers, to name a few. Interestingly, when asked…
John Hood writes for Carolina Journal’s Daily Journal: I think health care costs too much — that is, the full cost exceeds the real benefit in health outcomes — because…
JLF’s Health Care Policy Analyst, Jordan Roberts, explains how an auction-based system of purchasing health care puts the consumer in charge and exerts pressure on providers to compete for patients based…
Matthew Kandrach reports for the Washington Examiner on one aspect of health care that has seen no benefits from the Affordable Care Act. Almost a decade after President Obama’s Affordable…
JLF’s Katherine Restrepo joined “Capital Tonight” for a discussion of what comes next in the effort to reform and improve our health care system. Find out why she likes the…
John Boyle has a fascinating commentary entitled, “68,000 percent increase in hospital costs.” It is interesting down to the very last word.
Provider Consolidation. The more market power a hospital has, the more leverage it has over insurance companies – resulting in higher prices for services and higher costs for patients. Blue Cross…
Health care mess in one graph. See the discussion here.