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New Report — Universal Catastrophic Coverage

WEBIn a new paper, Niskanen Center senior fellow Ed Dolan argues that Universal Catastrophic Coverage (UCC) provides the best framework for achieving truly …

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A CBO Roadmap to Universal Healthcare

WEBOctober 6, 2020. On October 1, the Congressional Budget Office released a detailed report, Policies to Achieve Near-Universal Health Insurance Coverage. The report outlines four …

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Demand, supply, and the perils of unbalanced healthcare …

WEBDemand, supply, and the perils of unbalanced healthcare reform. By Ed Dolan. October 24, 2023. Healthcare, like all social services, has a supply side and a …

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The Role of Prevention in Health Care Reform

WEBTertiary prevention means taking measures to arrest or slow the progression of chronic diseases like diabetes or HIV that cannot be fully cured with current …

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From the Nixon Era, a Healthcare Proposal Ahead of Its …

WEBFrom the Nixon Era, a Healthcare Proposal Ahead of Its Time - Niskanen Center. By Ed Dolan. February 27, 2018. People today remember the Nixon era mainly …

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Understanding inequality and rising mortality rates in …

WEBUnderstanding inequality and rising mortality rates in America, with Angus Deaton - Niskanen Center. By Geoff Kabaservice. March 27, 2024. Sir Angus Deaton is …

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Managing High-Cost Health Care: Risk Pools, …

WEBCovering the costs of just the top 5 percent of health care spenders would cost something like $1.5 trillion as of 2018, or about 7 percent of GDP. If high-risk pools …

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The Public Option Dilemma: Can Health Insurance …

WEBA tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 56 percent of Americans favor a fully government-run Medicare for All insurance plan, but that an even …

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Do High-Risk Pools Have a Future in Health Care Reform

WEBApril 7, 2017. High-risk pools have played a prominent role in the debate over U.S. health care policy, especially on the conservative side. In contrast to liberals, who lean toward …

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The U.S. Has Much to Gain from More Doctors

WEBBy Robert Orr. August 4, 2021. Americans face distinct challenges in accessing affordable health care. A good chunk of the blame lies with public policy, which has historically not …

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Healthcare Spending vs. Health System Performance: What are the

WEBHowever, GDP may not be the appropriate basis of comparison. According to the anonymous author of the blog Random Critical Analysis (whom I identify hereafter as …

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Op-Ed: Insuring Health Care for Working Families

WEBThe American health care system is far from family-friendly. One feature stands out: employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI). Most Americans ( 56%) are …

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U.S. Health Care Licensing: Pervasive, Expensive, and Restrictive

WEBOccupational licensing, or state-approval to work in a given profession, is a pervasive feature of the health care sector. All told, about 14.3 million U.S. health care …

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Enacting Lasting Policies in an Era of Gridlock

WEBConsidering “policy feedbacks” in the design of policies involves taking into account the ways in which policies themselves can generate avenues of political …

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What’s Wrong with Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

WEBThe high proportion of people who get their health insurance through their jobs is one of the most distinctive features of the U.S. health care system. According to …

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What Policymakers Need to Know

WEBPsychedelics and Mental Health Care — What Policymakers Need to Know - Niskanen Center. By Greg Ferenstein. May 22, 2020. The past few years have seen a …

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Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting …

WEBWe are in an era of spiraling costs for core social goods — health care, housing, education, child care — which has made proposals to socialize those costs …

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Celebrating Civil Discourse on Welfare Reform

WEBSo often in public policy debates we find ourselves sorted into political tribes that simply talk past each other. Welfare reform provides one of the strongest examples. …

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What Health Care Policy Lessons Can We Draw From Physician …

WEBFortunately, a recent working paper by Joshua Gottlieb and co-authors marks a substantial improvement in our understanding of the high share of U.S. health …

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