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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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  • Medicare

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    Medicare, Climate Change, 'Superbugs': RAND Weekly Recap

    Nov 22, 2019

    This weekly recap focuses on opening Medicare to Americans at age 50, how to assess climate change plans, antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and more.

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  • International Economic Relations

    blog

    School Reform, Sanctions, Russian Aggression: RAND Weekly Recap

    Apr 19, 2019

    This weekly recap focuses on what educators think about school reform, the devastating impacts of economic sanctions, deterring Russian aggression in the Baltics, and more.

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  • Medicare

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    Medicare for All, Principals, Cigarette Labels: RAND Weekly Recap

    Apr 12, 2019

    This weekly recap focuses on spending estimates under Medicare for All, the benefits of principal pipelines, graphic warning labels on cigarettes, and more.

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    Health Insurance Cost Sharing

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    Medicare for All: Sounds Good, but What Does It Mean?

    David Anderson, Jodi L. Liu @jodilliu, Mark W. Friedberg

    Nov 19, 2018

    Health Affairs Blog

    Traditional Medicare is popular and therefore can lend a good brand name to coverage expansion proposals, but its limits can be significant for some patients. Those proposing and evaluating “Medicare for All” proposals should consider whether and how these limits are addressed.

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  • International Diplomacy

    blog

    Tree of Life, Social Media, Korea: RAND Weekly Recap

    Nov 2, 2018

    This weekly recap focuses on the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, countering Russian social media influence, how Korea could unify, and more.

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  • Hospital staff discussing a patient's chart
    Health Care Pay for Performance

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    Improving MACRA's Chances of Success

    Adam J. Rose, Peter S. Hussey, Monique Martineau, Mark W. Friedberg

    Jan 9, 2017

    The Health Care Blog

    Starting in 2019, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act will integrate and potentially simplify performance measurement by combining many measures and programs. Research provides insight into how to avoid pitfalls in MACRA's rollout.

    Read More »
  • Pharmacist discussing a prescription with a patient
    Prescription Drug Benefits

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    Easing the Pain When Critical Medications Are No Longer Covered

    Erin Audrey Taylor

    Oct 28, 2016

    The Hill

    Allowing insurance companies to limit the drugs they cover is necessary to give them leverage that can result in lower medication costs for all patients. Still, there are ways to make the process more transparent and manageable.

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  • Acupuncture needles pictured between the feet of an acupuncture model
    Integrative Medicine

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    Science and the Healing Arts

    Apr 29, 2016

    Americans spend billions of dollars out of pocket seeking relief from chronic conditions in alternative schools of health, such as acupuncture or chiropractic. What would it take to more fully integrate such practices into the mainstream?

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    Medicare

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    Medicare at 50: How Reforming End-of-Life Care Could Benefit It for Years to Come

    Erin Audrey Taylor

    Jul 30, 2015

    U.S. News & World Report

    As Medicare turns 50, skyrocketing health care costs and the aging of baby boomers both threaten the program's long-term viability. One solution that could go a long way would be to change the way the program handles and pays for end-of-life care.

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  • An elderly man in a hospital bed visits with his family
    End of Life Care

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    Let People Make Their Own End-of-Life Decisions

    Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia @AhluwaliaPhD, Neil S. Wenger, Karl Lorenz

    Jul 15, 2015

    Newsweek

    Major advances in health technology have helped people to live longer, but not necessarily better, lives. Medicare recently announced plans to reimburse providers for time spent counseling patients and their caregivers about the kind of care patients would want to receive near the end of their lives.

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    Affordable Care Act

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    Five Years of the Affordable Care Act

    Mar 23, 2015

    The Affordable Care Act has officially been part of the U.S. health care landscape for five years. We reflect on the twists and turns that followed its passage and the RAND research that informed debates along the way, and look ahead to the future of the ACA.

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  • A patient and doctor talking and looking at a clipboard
    Health Care Quality Measurement

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    Putting Patients First Can Result in Better Care Overall

    Rebecca Anhang Price, Marc N. Elliott, Ron D. Hays

    Jul 28, 2014

    The RAND Blog

    Better patient care experiences are associated with higher levels of adherence to recommended prevention and treatment processes, better clinical outcomes, better patient safety within hospitals, and less health care utilization.

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  • medical researchers examining a test tube of liquid
    Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

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    10 Ways Innovation Could Help Cure the U.S. Health Spending Problem

    Steven Garber

    Apr 29, 2014

    The Health Care Blog

    Many studies grapple with how to control spending by considering changing how existing technologies are used. But what if the problem could be attacked at its root by changing which drugs and devices are invented in the first place?

    Read More »
  • Close up of pills/drugs on US dollar health care spending
    Health Care Costs

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    Is the ACA Keeping a Lid on Growth in Healthcare Spending?

    Chapin White

    Apr 3, 2014

    The Hill

    Some point to the healthcare spending slowdown as an early success of the Affordable Care Act. Others warn that it's merely a hangover from the recession, and that the inevitable spending rebound will be exacerbated by the ACA coverage expansions.

    Read More »
  • Small ideas lead to big health savings: Ideas 11-14
    Health Care Costs

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    Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars (No. 11-14)

    Jan 29, 2014

    Focusing on smaller, more focused approaches can identify less controversial opportunities for modest health care savings.

    Read More »
  • Small ideas lead to big health savings: Ideas 4-7
    Health Care Costs

    blog

    Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars (No. 4-7)

    Jan 15, 2014

    Focusing on smaller, more focused approaches can identify less controversial opportunities for modest health care savings.

    Read More »
  • Small ideas lead to big health savings: Ideas 1-3
    Health Care Costs

    blog

    Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars (No. 1-3)

    Jan 8, 2014

    Focusing on smaller, more focused approaches can identify less controversial opportunities for modest health care savings.

    Read More »
  • Doctor preparing online internet prescription
    Medicare Part D

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    An Inexpensive Prescription for Medicare

    Walid F. Gellad

    Nov 18, 2013

    The RAND Blog

    If Congress wants to save Medicare, it can start by driving waste and excess out of the system. This can be done without impoverishing patients or driving doctors out of business, if physicians are willing to practice smarter, more efficient medicine. Spending on prescription drugs is a case in point. 

    Read More »
  • Prescription pills spilled out over $20 bills.
    Health Care Costs

    commentary

    Remove Medicare's Straitjacket

    Arthur L. Kellermann

    Mar 29, 2013

    Los Angeles Times

    Removing the constraints on Medicare would not only lead to lower prices at the drugstore, hospital and doctor's office, it could spark a new era of healthcare innovation, says Arthur Kellermann.

    Read More »
  • doctor consoling elderly man
    Medicare

    commentary

    A Health Care Entitlement Worth Ending

    Arthur L. Kellermann

    Feb 27, 2013

    Health Affairs Blog

    The health care “entitlement” we need to reform is the notion that America's health care system is entitled to an ever-growing share of America's wealth, writes Arthur Kellermann.

    Read More »
  • money and pills
    Affordable Care Act

    commentary

    Health Care Costs Must Be Curbed, No Matter Who Wins

    Arthur L. Kellermann

    Oct 17, 2012

    The Orange County Register

    Regardless of which candidate wins in November, and regardless of whether “Obamacare” is repealed, amended, or defended by the next Congress, the next president will have to contend with the spiraling cost of health care in the United States—a problem that is growing more acute with each passing year, writes Arthur Kellermann.

    Read More »
  • A hospital staff member talking to a patient and his wife
    Patient Safety

    blog

    Multiple Patient Safety Events in Hospitals

    Jun 5, 2012

    A patient safety event is any event or action that could lead to a worse outcome for a patient, from bedsores to post-operative respiratory failure.

    Read More »
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    Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003

    commentary

    Prescription Drug Shortages: Reconsidering the Role of Medicare Payment Policies

    Mireille Jacobson, Abby Alpert, Fabian Duarte

    May 30, 2012

    Health Affairs Blog

    The focus on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) as a primary cause of prescription drug shortages is premature and may deflect attention away from identifying other potentially more important causes, write Mireille Jacobson, Abby Alpert, and Fabian Duarte.

    Read More »
  • A patient getting her blood pressure checked
    Health Care Access

    blog

    Attempts by States to Save Money by Locking Medicaid Enrollees out of the ED Are Likely to Backfire

    Robin M. Weinick

    May 21, 2012

    In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, we argue that attempts by states to save money by seeking to lock Medicaid enrollees out of the emergency department are likely to backfire. We argue that a better solution is to reverse what for many years has been a trend of shrinking access to primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries.

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  • The Department of Defense has exactly zero permanent staff who wake up every morning with the sole priority of preparing the military to reduce civilian harm in combat. Protecting civilians is important to everyone in the department, but it's the top priority for no one.

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