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Academic Articles & Reports Round-Up: February 2016
Elizabeth Nicholson, Research Fellow February 29, 2016
Although February’s literature was light in quantity, it was high in quality. The bulk of February’s articles and reports focused heavily on marketplace competition, healthcare consolidation, healthcare cost, pharmaceutical price reform initiatives, bundled payments, and high-deductible health plans. MARKETPLACE COMPETITION The Commonwealth Fund published an issue brief entitled Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Promoting Competition in the Individual Marketplace. In its brief, the Commonwealth Fund explores how the ACA has influenced individual healthcare marketplaces in Kansas, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Washington.[1] To understand the impact the ACA has had in …
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Academic Articles and Reports Round-Up: August 2015
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor August 31, 2015
The end of summer is always so bittersweet. As the long days filled with sun, swimming, and a bit more time for family and fun wind down, they are replaced with an undeniable excitement in the air. A promise of new opportunities and endless possibilities seems to accompany the start of the new school year. As you gear up for the fall, the August Roundup has all you need to catch up on your reading on healthcare price and competition. The August literature focused on three key topics: 1) Medicare …
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February Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor March 2, 2015
In February, we saw assessments of health policy ideas from the level of national health reform right down to very specific cost saving initiatives. This issue of the Roundup will start with the broad and theoretical and move toward the specific. Big picture health reform In Managed Competition in Health Insurance, Stanford economists Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin examine the potential for regulated markets to outperform single payer public insurance. Specifically, they examined the use of managed competition in Medicare as a means of demonstrating how adverse selection and market …
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