Health Care Policy

The Avenue

Grocery workers are keeping Americans alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what they need.

Molly Kinder

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Misleading marketing of short-term health plans amid COVID-19

Christen Linke Young and Kathleen Hannick

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump declares the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency as Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and other officials listen during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19’s painful lesson in leadership

Steven M. Lieberman

Monday, March 23, 2020

A vendor checks the stock of medicine at a legal pharmacy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 16, 2018. Picture taken October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago - RC1790222440

Health Care Policy

How would sharing rebates at the point-of-sale affect beneficiary cost-sharing in Medicare Part D?

Erin Trish, Katrina Kaiser, and Geoffrey Joyce

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Reports

Professional medical team with doctors and surgeon examining patient's x-ray image, discussing and pointing

Report

Are medical care prices still declining?

Seidu Dauda, Abe Dunn, and Anne Hall

Monday, March 16, 2020

Report

A dozen facts about the economics of the US health-care system

Ryan Nunn, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

A hospital bill for $36,000 with a line item of various charges is photographed with a very shallow depth of field. A credit card and a ballpoint pen rest out of focus in the background.

Report

A proposal to cap provider prices and price growth in the commercial health-care market

Michael E. Chernew, Leemore Dafny, and Maximilian Pany

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Closeup shot of an unrecognizable doctor using a digital tablet in a hospital

Health Care Policy

Reducing administrative costs in US health care

David M. Cutler

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Rear View Of Doctors Talking As They Walk Through Hospital

Health Care Policy

What to do about health-care markets? Policies to make health-care markets work

Martin Gaynor

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Blog Posts

Nobel Lett (R), who suffers from Prader-Willi Syndrome and is treated under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), eats a snack with his family after school in his home in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Maddie McGarvey

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

What do I do if I lose my job-based health insurance?

Christen Linke Young

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) talks to reporters ahead of a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a coronavirus economic aid package on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

What are the health coverage provisions in the House coronavirus bill?

Matthew Fiedler, Christen Linke Young, and Loren Adler

Friday, March 13, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, announces opioid response grants to state governments in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott

Order from Chaos

What the US and Canada can learn from other countries to combat the opioid crisis

Keith Humphreys, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 13, 2020

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Every Second Counts

By William A. Haseltine

2018

What’s In, What’s Out

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2016

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Experts

Stuart M. Butler

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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Steven M. Lieberman

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

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Multimedia

Get Covered America buttons are seen during a training session in Chicago, Illinois September 7, 2013 before volunteers canvas a Chicago neighborhood to talk with residents about the Affordable Care Act - also known as Obamacare. Picture taken September 7, 2013. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS)

Podcast Episode

The Affordable Care Act at 10 years

Christen Linke Young and Fred Dews

Friday, March 13, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Intravenous bags hang above young cancer patients at Rady's Children Hospital in San Diego, California, U.S., September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo - RC2EAD9AFK1N

Podcast Episode

The biggest health care issues of the 2020 election

Matthew Fiedler, Christen Linke Young, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 15, 2019

A wellness center medical director examines a patient.

Health Care Policy

The Trump administration’s new challenge to the Affordable Care Act

Christen Linke Young

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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