patents.In fact, however, pharmaceutical access and innovation incentives are intimately related. Health insurance can change …

As presidential candidates debate health reform, the expression “Medicare for All” (“M4A”) is on repeat, yet few appear … debating health reform when the ACA – President Obama's signature legislation and a health reform effort on a scale not seen in … decades – turns 10 on March 23.The ACA pioneered universal coverage, but it also ratcheted up health care complexity by …

Medicare faces significant financial challenges because of rising health care costs. In response, Medicare reform … plans are more efficient in reducing health expenditures, but incur higher administrative costs. Health expenditure savings …

Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach patients often depends on …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

Proposals to create a national health care plan such as “Medicare for All” rely heavily on reducing the prices that … insurers pay for health care. These changes affect physicians’ short-run incentives for care provision and may also change … health care providers’ incentives to invest in capacity, thereby influencing the availability of care in the long term. We …

payment models toward value and health outcomes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have tested various ACO … potential cost reductions. The results indicate that in minimizing health expenditures given quality services, or maximizing … quality services given health expenditures, one-sided ACOs are more efficient than two-sided ACOs, so it might not be …

This paper examines, theoretically and empirically, how changes in the demand for health insurance and medical services … – spill over and affect health insurance coverage and how these factors affect per beneficiary Medicare spending. We find that …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China … Health and Nutrition Survey. We find that this program has significantly increased the utilization of formal medical services …