In many cases, patients are unable to shop around or make informed decisions about their care due to a lack of information about the true cost and quality of services.
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Both Trump and Harris seek to lower drug costs for patients. What headway have they made on realizing this goal?
Harris and Trump have starkly contrasting records on health care. This analysis examines their differing approaches to Medicare, the ACA, drug pricing and other public health efforts.
People ages 65 and up will likely reap significant out-of-pocket savings on prescription drugs when the negotiated prices take effect. But other benefits could pay bigger dividends in the long run.
When patients spend large sums on their cancer care, it can be hard for them to afford basics such as food and housing.
Knowing which kind of provider to see and how to access help can be half the battle.
When we mapped where Indigenous Australians are using a program to access free or discounted medicines, we found huge variation around the country. Here’s why that’s a problem.
The aim is to make health care affordable and sustainable. Our new research shows how.
The federal government has announced almost $50 million in funding for gynaecological health care. But there’s more to do to help women with chronic pain.
The way pharmacare is implemented could contribute to the Canadian health insurance system’s transition toward a more contentious and unequal American-style system with heavy administrative burdens.
Paying the caregivers of people with disabilities more would improve care while increasing economic growth, a research team found.
What happens in November 2024 could influence other states weighing their own options.
There is ample evidence that poor oral health plays a role in many chronic diseases.
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Owners of midsize nursing home chains harm the elderly and drain huge sums of money from facilities using opaque accounting practices while government doesn’t do enough to stop it.
Owners of midsize nursing home chains drain billions from facilities, hiding behind opaque accounting practices and harming the elderly as government, which has the power to stop it, falls short.
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes weighs in.
The health care world has changed a lot in 40 years, but Medicare hasn’t. Here are three areas for radical forms to the system that will achieve its aims of universal health care for all Australians.
Access to dental care in Australia is worse than ever and is simply unaffordable to many.
Nurses make up more than 50% of the health workforce and have untapped and under-used skills that could ease the skills gap in our health system.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor in Health Economics, Curtin University