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Conservative Health-Care Reform: A Reality Check

WEBI t has been another rough year for Obamacare. Implementing the main components of President Obama's signature health-care law in time for a January 2014 rollout date …

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The Perils of Health-Care Federalism National Affairs

WEBStarting in 1984, the rate of health-care spending growth in France slowed drastically as most French hospitals were forced to subsist with capped "global budgets" and sector …

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Presidents and Public-Health Crises National Affairs

WEBTevi Troy. Spring 2017. O ver the course of the 20th century, the United States faced three major public-health crises: the polio epidemic, excessively high smoking rates, and …

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The Cost of Hospital Protectionism National Affairs

WEBHOSPITAL COSTS. Domestic policymaking has become dominated by health-care reform, and with good reason. The average insurance premium for family coverage has soared …

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A Better Way to Help Veterans National Affairs

WEBThe goal of any policy intended to help ill or injured veterans should be to narrow the capacity-performance gap. The Department of Defense offers a useful example of how …

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The Perils of Hospital Consolidation National Affairs

WEBYevgeniy Feyman is a senior research assistant at the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.Previously, he was a fellow and …

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Author National Affairs

WEBA weekly newsletter with free essays from past issues of National Affairs and The Public Interest that shed light on the week's pressing issues.

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The economics of health in a post-industrial society

WEBTHE most important, and perhaps the most surprising, finding of health economics is this: Holding constant the state of medical technology and other health-determining …

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In Defense of Stigma National Affairs

WEBWinter 2020. Perhaps the most widely embraced priority among mental-health policymakers is that of reducing "stigma," or the mark of shame commonly associated …

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Author National Affairs

WEBIncreasing rates of obesity pose grave problems for both the nation's health and finances. Government can play a constructive role in addressing this challenge, but lawmakers …

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School choice builds community National Affairs

WEBSCHOOL choice poses a fundamental challenge to the age- old concept of neighborhood schools. So, unsurprisingly, it has been surrounded by intense controversy. Despite this, …

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Fixing Private Health Insurance National Affairs

WEBAs a result, from 2011 to 2017, increased spending on hospital and physician services accounted for 94% of the $285 billion growth in private health-insurance costs. Much …

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Health Care and the Profit Motive National Affairs

WEBFor example, a worker who pays federal and state income taxes at a combined rate of 30% will receive $7,000 for every $10,000 his employer provides in gross salary. But the …

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Why non-profits go broke National Affairs

WEBBruce C. Vladeck. THE great voluntary, non-profit institutions that dominate large sectors of public service in the United States are going broke. Especially in health, higher …

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Regarding the end of medicine and the pursuit of health

WEBLeon R. Kass. Summer 1975. AMERICAN medicine is not well. Though it remains the most widely respected of professions, though it has never been more competent technically, it …

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How to Replace Obamacare National Affairs

WEBThe way to spend that time, these opponents argued, was working to "repeal and replace" the law that Congress had just enacted. The "repeal and replace" formulation quickly …

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What Has Become of the Affordable Care Act

WEBAn HRA is a type of account-based group health plan, funded solely by employer contributions, that reimburses an employee for medical-care expenses incurred by the …

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Doing methadone right National Affairs

WEBHEROIN looks like it is here to stay. Since the 1960s, millions of Americans have used heroin. Most stopped, with or without treatment, at some point.  But there are an …

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How to Think about the Drug Crisis National Affairs

WEBSummer 2023. Almost nobody is taking America's drug crisis seriously. To be sure, the ever-mounting deaths attract headlines. They get a mention in the State of the Union, or …

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The Clintonian Roots of Obamacare National Affairs

WEBM aking one final pitch for his sweeping health-care plan, the president turned to the issue of cost. Making health insurance affordable, he told the primetime television audience, …

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The Expert in American Life National Affairs

WEBAndrew J. Taylor. Fall 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to assess the current state of the expert in American public life. The crisis is vast and …

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Saving Medicare from Itself National Affairs

WEBFifth, we must address the substantial problem of Medicare fraud. It is estimated that $60 to $100 billion of annual Medicare spending — between 8% and 13% of the total — is …

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