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Best of Open Health: Less Vaping, More Smoking
The Predictable Effects of Flavored E-cigarette Restrictions
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Liam Sigaud
Best of Open Health: Medicare Spending - Physician Services Are a Much Bigger Problem than Drug Prices
Healthcare spending will continue to spiral out of control unless we change how we pay for physician services.
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Elise Amez-Droz
An Handy Guide to a Very Messy Health System
The U.S.
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Liam Sigaud
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Balancing Privacy and Efficiency: Should Medicaid Use Sensitive Data to Reduce Improper Payments?
Note [M.B.]: We’re experimenting with our posts' format, schedule, and content at OpenHealthPolicy.
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Markus Bjoerkheim
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ali melad

May 2024

What Happens to the Uninsured Rate When Millions Lose Medicaid Coverage?
Not much.
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Liam Sigaud
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Inaugural Open Health Podcast: The Sexy and Not-So-Sexy Future of AI in Healthcare
Today, Open Health Policy is launching our inaugural podcast featuring a conversation on the future of AI in healthcare. Join me and my colleague…
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Markus Bjoerkheim
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Sam Alburger
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Matthew Mittelsteadt

April 2024

Best of Open Health: Are certificate-of-need laws helping or hurting rural healthcare?
Revisiting our recently published and now trending journal article
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Vitor Melo
Recessions Affect Mortality — Just Not in the Way You Think
Over the last 25 years, research has challenged the conventional wisdom.
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Liam Sigaud
Best of Open Health: Congress Limits the Number of Doctors
Free-market principles can help fix the undersupply of doctors in the US.
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Justin Leventhal
Medicaid’s Flawed Response to Economic Downturns
When recessions hit, Medicaid is supposed to help stabilize state economies. But its structural flaws prevent meaningful aid from being distributed…
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Liam Sigaud

March 2024

From Proposal to Policy: Does Policy Reflect the Quality or the Quantity of Evidence?
Last year, CMS proposed new Minimum Staffing Requirements for nursing homes, a topic I covered in the post titled Minimum-Staff Requirements Will Help…
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Markus Bjoerkheim
Those covered under Medicaid expansion are costing much more than expected
And it's not clear why.
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Liam Sigaud
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