Healthcare Costs

Financing the efficient delivery of medical services while reducing costs for consumers as well as health care providers is among the most challenging domestic policy problems many countries face. RAND addresses health economics issues through innovative, high-profile research in an effort to improve the efficiency of health care organizations, reduce costs for providers and consumers, and improve financing in health care markets.

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Four Strategies to Contain America's Growing Health Care Spending

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In its second term, the Obama Administration can restrain further health care spending growth—without compromising quality—by employing four broad strategies: fostering efficient and accountable providers, engaging and empowering consumers, promoting population health, and facilitating high-value innovation.

Cost and Coverage Implications of the Affordable Care Act

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The ACA's goal of expanding access to health coverage has implications for health care costs at many levels: how it will affect individual decisions to obtain insurance, employer decisions about offering coverage, and government spending.

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Emmett B. Keeler

Senior Mathematician; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in mathematics, Harvard University

Arthur L. Kellermann

Paul O'Neill Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis
M.D., Emory University; M.P.H., University of Washington; B.S. in biology, Rhodes College

Hangsheng Liu

Policy Researcher; Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in health services research and policy, University of Rochester; M.S. in social medicine and health management, Fudan University; B.Med. (medical degree), Shanghai Medical University

Ateev Mehrotra

Affiliated Adjunct Staff
M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley; M.D., University of California, San Francisco; M.Sc. in epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Glenn Melnick

Adjunct Staff; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in urban and regional planning, University of Michigan

John Mendeloff

Director, RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. and M.P.P., Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; A.B., Harvard University

Andrew Mulcahy

Policy Researcher, Assoc
Ph.D. in health care management and economics, The Wharton School; M.P.P. in health policy, The Johns Hopkins University; A.B. in molecular biology and public policy, Princeton University

Teryl K. Nuckols

Affiliate Adjunct Staff
M.D., University of California, San Diego; M.S. in health services, University of California, Los Angeles

Uzor C. Ogbu

Associate Policy Researcher
Ph.D. in health services research, University of Amsterdam; MSc in epidemiology, NIHES, Erasmus University Rotterdam; M.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center; Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, Duke University; B.S. in political science, Santa Clara University

Christopher S. Saigal

Affiliated Adjunct Staff
M.D., University of California, Los Angeles; M.P.H., UCLA School of Public Health

Evan Saltzman

Project Associate
MS in operations research, Georgia Institute of Technology; BS in economics and mathematics (dual major), College of William & Mary

Mary Ellen Slaughter

Quantitative Analyst
M.S. in epidemiology & biostatistics, Case-Western Reserve; B.S. in molecular biology & genetics, University of Maryland

Melony E. Sorbero

Policy Researcher
Ph.D. in health services research and policy, and M.P.H., University of Rochester School of Medicine; M.S. in public policy analysis, University of Rochester

Jeffrey Wasserman

Vice President, RAND Corporation; Director, RAND Health
Ph.D. in public policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in public policy analysis, B.A. in political science. University of Rochester

Daniel Waxman

Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.D., University of Southern California; B.A. in biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz

Hao Yu

Policy Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in health services research and policy, University of Rochester; M.A. in health economics, Shanghai Medical University; B.A. in medicine, Shanghai Medical University

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