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In a recent piece in Discourse, I called attention to diverse moral communities whose distinct visions of the good life limit the moral authority of…
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Michael Brodrick
Will cash heal the homeless?
If you read the earlier post Cash as Medicine?, you know that I think giving the poor more say in how we help them is potentially one of the most…
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Markus Bjoerkheim
Uninsured rate shows little change amid Medicaid redeterminations
More than twice as many non-elderly Americans became uninsured from 2017 to 2019 as are projected to become uninsured from 2022 to 2024.
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Liam Sigaud
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Congress Limits the Number of Doctors
 • Justin Leventhal
Faster Vaccine Development Could Save Lives, But Would People Trust It?
 • Markus Bjoerkheim and Milica Manojlovic
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Medicare Spending: Physician Services Are a Much Bigger Problem than Drug Prices
 • Elise Amez-Droz
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The Myth of American Free-Market Healthcare
 • Liam Sigaud
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A Frustrating Experience
 • Kofi Ampaabeng
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America’s Poor Health Outcomes are Driven by Behaviors – Not Coverage or Access to Care
And that’s a much harder problem to solve than expanding health coverage.
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Liam Sigaud
Weight Loss Drug Prices
Is there More than Meets the Eye?
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Kofi Ampaabeng
Can a tiny fish and an old hot dog teach us anything about whether health insurance reduces mortality?
How a day of fishing raises questions about one of the canonical studies in the Medicaid expansion literature.
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Markus Bjoerkheim
Saying the quiet part out loud: Understanding the “sacred cow” of healthcare regulation
A few months ago, I was invited to testify at a policy hearing about Certificate-of-Need (CON) laws in South Carolina. CON laws are regulations that…
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Vitor Melo
Why Average Income Isn’t A Good Way to Distribute Federal Medicaid Funds to States
Instead of equalizing Medicaid resources across the country, the current funding formula often exacerbates disparities
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Liam Sigaud
Another Pathway to Reduce Medical Professional Shortage: Tap the “Unmatched” MDs
There is a pool of well-trained medical professionals who can provide care.
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Kofi Ampaabeng
Key Facts About the Medicaid Redeterminations You’re Hearing So Much About
COVID-19 and the federal requirement imposed at the start of the pandemic for Medicaid continuous coverage, which prevented states from disenrolling…
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Liam Sigaud
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