Health Care Policy
Health insurance as assurance: The importance of keeping the ACA’s limits on enrollee health costs
The Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy—a partnership between the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Center for Health Policy at Brookings—offers the new Administration and Congress solutions on reforming the Affordable Care Act and the individual health insurance market; improving competition among providers and insurers; making drug pricing more rational; modernizing the Medicare program; and addressing pressing public health challenges.
ACA/Individual Market Reform
ACA/Individual Market Reform
Health Access & Equity
Why risk adjustment is a crucial component of individual market reform
Health Care Policy
Why repealing the ACA before replacing it won’t work, and what might
Provider and Insurance Competition
Health Access & Equity
Stopping surprise medical bills: Federal action is needed
Provider and Insurance Competition
Health Access & Equity
Making health care markets work: competition policy for health care
Medicare Reform
Health Care Policy
4 recommendations to advance Medicare delivery system reform
Public Health
Public Health
Tackling the opioid crisis with compassion, new ways to reduce use and treatment
Public Health
Health Access & Equity
Re-balancing medical and social spending to promote health: Increasing state flexibility to improve health through housing
Prescription Drugs
Health Care Policy
Reining in pharmaceutical costs