Health Care Policy

REUTERS/Carlos Barria - President Donald Trump gathers with Congressional Republicans in the Rose Garden after the House of Representatives approved the American Healthcare Act.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men: Reintroducing fractured risk pools

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Discovery Communications Wellness Center Medical Director Liz Sequeira discusses symptoms with patient Bonnary Lek (L) at the clinic in the Discovery headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland December 3, 2009. Sequeira says seeing patients in her office at Discovery Communications Inc's modern headquarters is like stepping back in time and being an old-time small town doctor. Her clinic off the airy lobby serves as many employees' first stop for blood tests and medication. As Democratic lawmakers in Washington inch ahead with plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, companies like Discovery are striking out on their own -- whether through on-site doctors or diet plans -- to rein in soaring costs in a nation where employers still pay for the bulk of medical care. Picture taken December 3, 2009. To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/WELLNESS REUTERS/Jim Bourg (UNITED STATES HEALTH BUSINESS SOCIETY) - RTXRMUW

Effects of the Medicaid per capita cap included in the House-passed American Health Care Act

Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, and Tim Gronniger

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Hospital sign in San Diego

What Brookings experts are saying about the American Health Care Act (AHCA)

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) turns to House Speaker Paul Ryan (3rdL) as he gathers with Congressional Republicans in the Rose Garden of the White House after the House of Representatives approved the American Healthcare Act, to repeal major parts of Obamacare and replace it with the Republican healthcare plan

A Disaster Wrapped in Victory

Sarah A. Binder

New York Times Monday, May 8, 2017

Medical records clerk working in a community health center

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Margaret Darling, Stephanie Hedt, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Friday, May 5, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) turns to House Speaker Paul Ryan (3rdL) as he gathers with Congressional Republicans in the Rose Garden of the White House after the House of Representatives approved the American Healthcare Act, to repeal major parts of Obamacare and replace it with the Republican healthcare plan

On the AHCA in the Senate

Molly E. Reynolds

Friday, May 5, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulates House Speaker Paul Ryan

On the AHCA vote and the future of American health care

Matthew Fiedler

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Photo: An emergency sign points to the entrance to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, U.S. March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RTX32G3C

Allowing states to define “essential health benefits” could weaken ACA protections against catastrophic costs for people with employer coverage nationwide

Matthew Fiedler

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Reining in prescription drug prices

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Patient's prescriptions sit on a handwritten ledger in Dr. Byron Harbolt's Cathedral Canyon Clinic in Altamont, Tennessee July 14, 2013. Harbolt, 89, who charges as little as $15 for an office visit, sees patients six days a week in the rural clinic he opened in 1960. Photo taken July 14, 2013. REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - RTX11NNB

Can drug importation address high generic drug prices?

Thomas Bollyky and Aaron Kesselheim

Tuesday, May 2, 2017