The Impact of Patient Cost-Sharing on Low-Income Populations: Evidence from Massachusetts
Greater patient cost-sharing could help reduce the fiscal pressures associated with insurance expansion by reducing the scope for moral hazard.
Research
Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives
Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this area.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Use of Mammography Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare
Background Breast cancer is a leading cause of mortality for women in all racial/ethnic groups.
The Economics of Medical Care
Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment
In two important health policy contexts – private plans in Medicare and the new state-run “Exchanges” created as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – plan payments come from two sources: risk-adjus
Global Health 2035: A World Converging Within a Generation
Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic heal
With HealthCare.gov, the Government's Bad Management Skills are Showing Again
The plight of the Affordable Care Act Web site has focused attention on a problem that seldom receives it — the absence of good management in the U.S. government.
Responses to Medicare Drug Costs among Near-Poor versus Subsidized Beneficiaries
Objective: There is limited information on the protective value of Medicare Part D low-income subsidies ( LIS).
The Affordable Care Act: A User's Guide to Implementation
Sheila Burke and Elaine Kamarck seek to offer a balanced way of looking at the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that goes beyond today’s thorny political situation.
Service Use at the End of Life in Medicare Advantage versus Traditional Medicare
Background: Relative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare, managed care plans caring for Medicare beneficiaries may be better positioned to promote recommended services and discourage burdensome pr
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