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International comparisons show that the UK’s National Health Service outperforms other countries’ health systems, including the US.
Donald Trump’s pick for head of Health and Human Services marks a sharp departure from the direction of HHS under President Obama. Here’s a look at who might be affected by Tom Price’s leadership.
The Affordable Care Act gets blamed for many health care ills, but here’s one condition that it should not be blamed for.
Recent Supreme Court rulings played a crucial role in the cultural politics that got Donald Trump elected.
Double-digit premium increases are leading to an outcry that the Affordable Care Act is not working, yet parts of it are. Here’s what works, and ideas on how to fix what doesn’t.
While it’s hard to separate fact from hysteria when it comes to the Affordable Care Act, here are some expert voices to explain some of the candidates’ proposals on the health care law.
The Affordable Care Act increased the number of insured people, but skeptics have suggested the increase could be due to higher employment rates. That’s not the case, a detailed study suggests.
Cost and quality issues have long plagued the U.S. health care system because insurance companies both finance and manage medical care. So how did we get stuck with this system in the first place?
To discourage smoking, insurance companies charge higher premiums for smokers. This is having an unexpected consequence: rather than quit smoking, poor people are quitting insurance.
TV news stories often frame contraception as a political or social issue, rather than a medical issue, depriving the public of vital health information.
Aetna’s cutback in the ACA marketplace has raised concerns about the health of the health care law. Here’s why stories of its demise may be greatly exaggerated.
Hillary Clinton’s health care plan includes a public option and lowering the age limit for Medicare. Both would be hard to get through Congress.
Donald Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and allow insurers in one state to sell in another. Do his ideas hold up?
A key goal of the Affordable Care Act was to lower health care costs, but first we have to help individuals make better choices.
The absence of comprehensive dental care exacts a toll on millions of Americans in terms of poor health, pain and the social stigma associated with bad teeth.
Democratic candidates support access to contraception, while candidates from the Republican Party favor policies that could severely restrict access to contraception.
The leading GOP candidates all claim one of their top priorities will be to repeal Obamacare. An architect of the original law outlines the thorny – but plausible – path to repeal.
The long-serving justice changed how judges talk about statutes, but not, argues one law professor, how they ultimately interpret them.
Price in health care is a squishy concept. Different words relating to cost – charge, price and out-of-pocket cost – all have different meanings.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences, Tulane University
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Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Health Law, West Virginia University
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The Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine., University of Chicago
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Surgery and Public Policy, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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