Dana P. Goldman ([email protected]), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. During the past five years, many states have imposed out-of-pocket spending caps on insulin. In most ...

We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Justine Mallatt ([email protected]), Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington, D.C. Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Lasanthi Fernando, Bureau of Economic Analysis. A 2023 KFF survey reported ...

Devlin Hanson, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. Sarah Gillespie ([email protected]), Urban Institute. Housing First is an approach to ending homelessness that recognizes permanent housing as a ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

The primary data sources for NP graduation numbers are from the annual Enrollment and Graduation In Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, reported by the American Association of Colleges of ...

The assured, consistent availability of pharmaceuticals is a cornerstone for patient wellbeing, effective treatment, and equal access to needed medical care. Pharmaceutical supply disruptions ...

Obesity affects the way drugs behave in the body. Yet, our regulatory systems ignore this fact entirely. At a recent virtual workshop on drug safety and efficacy in people with obesity, Food and Drug ...

So rare is bipartisan regulatory legislation in Congress, especially in health care, that when it occurs one must presume it is in response to prohibitive costs to society or a threat to patient ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.