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Health Care Reform
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Options for Designing a Public Option
Michael Cohen, Al Bingham, Stan Dorn, Jodi L. Liu @jodilliu, Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner
May 28, 2020
The RAND Blog
State and federal policymakers are considering adding state-backed public options to the individual market in an effort to expand health coverage and improve affordability. We analyzed what would happen if public options became available in U.S. health insurance exchanges.
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Wildfires
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Australia's Fires, Artificial Intelligence, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 24, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on Australia's devastating fires, how artificial intelligence could manipulate the masses, the fentanyl crisis, and more.
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Suicide Attack
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Hospital Prices, Border Solutions, Sri Lanka: RAND Weekly Recap
May 10, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on hospital prices, common-sense solutions to the border crisis, myths about the Sri Lanka attacks, and more.
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Telemedicine
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Paying for Telemedicine
Shira H. Fischer @ShiraFischer
Sep 3, 2015
The RAND Blog
Telehealth, delivering health services and information via technology, holds great promise. But more information is needed to determine what works and what doesn't.
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Antimicrobial Resistance
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Ringing the Alarm Bell for Antimicrobial Resistance
Jirka Taylor, Marco Hafner
Feb 20, 2015
The RAND Blog
The increase in the number of bacterial and viral infections that are resistant to antimicrobial drugs poses a growing global health threat.
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Measuring Health Care Costs
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Do You Get What You Pay For? Maybe Not in Health Care
Peter S. Hussey
Feb 12, 2013
The RAND Blog
While the current state of the evidence does not provide clear guidance to policymakers seeking to address the twin pillars of health care quality and cost, it is apparent that researchers must produce more detailed data on how to reduce health care spending while improving quality, writes Peter Hussey.
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Measuring Health Care Costs
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25 Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars
Jeffrey Wasserman
Jan 30, 2013
The RAND Blog
Given the size of the annual “health care spend”—$2.7 trillion—summing up the savings associated with very minor cost-saving policy changes is likely to achieve significant aggregate savings, writes Jeffrey Wasserman.
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Measuring Health Care Costs
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Physicians Can Lead the Way in Reducing Health Care Waste
Jun 14, 2012
Physicians are in an ideal position to identify and eliminate health care waste by categorizing all medical services into four distinct types.
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Measuring Health Care Costs
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Do Physicians Need a 'Shopping Cart' for Health Care Services?
Robert H. Brook
Feb 22, 2012
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Providing physicians with cost data in real time automatically as a part of the electronic medical record could make them better purchasers for their patients and provide better value, writes Robert H. Brook.
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Affordable Care Act
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Two Years and Counting: How Will the Effects of the Affordable Care Act Be Monitored?
Robert H. Brook
Jan 4, 2012
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Most will agree with the undeniable fact that a new era in US medicine and US health care begins in less than 2 years. The key question is what potential measures should be monitored to determine both anticipated and unanticipated effects of the new law on the health of the US population, writes Robert H. Brook.
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Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care
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Can the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Become Relevant to Controlling Medical Costs and Improving Value?
Robert H. Brook
Nov 9, 2011
The Journal of the American Medical Association
A scientific and political case could be made to amend health care legislation to require that cost be included in the studies that the PCORI funds, writes Robert H. Brook.
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The Role of Physicians in Controlling Medical Care Costs and Reducing Waste
Robert H. Brook
Aug 9, 2011
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Because the budget crisis is really a crisis, it behooves physicians to answer the waste question as rapidly as possible. Without an answer, there is no hope that an appropriate policy process for reining in health care costs will be identified, writes Robert H. Brook.
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