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Telehealth Payment Parity Laws at the State Level
During the coronavirus pandemic, the use of telehealth—especially real-time video conferencing to provide medical care—has
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Nursing the Opioid Crisis
The vast increase in demand for healthcare services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic was, and continues to be, a problem for
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West Virginia’s Certificate-of-Need Program: Lessons from Research
In West Virginia, healthcare providers who wish to open or expand facilities must first obtain a certificate of need (CON). They
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For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation—in absolute terms, as a percentage of gross domestic product
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Cost and Quality of Care in Physician-Owned Hospitals: A Systematic Review
Americans face challenges in accessing affordable hospital care as increasing hospital consolidation results in lower quality
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Depoliticizing Healthcare Licensure: Making Competence the New Standard for Licensing the Healthcare Workforce
In the United States, political considerations play too large of a role in the licensing of physicians and other healthcare
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Robert Graboyes on The Lars Larson Show - Healthcare Policy
Robert Graboyes argues that the ACA is here to stay. Now, it's time to focus on the supply side of healthcare. Listen on
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Robert Graboyes on Morning Briefing - ACA SCOTUS Case
The Affordable Care Act is here to stay, but Medicare for All isn't on the horizon quite yet. Right now, what our healthcare
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To Make a Difference in Health Policy, Look First to the States
In March, while the eyes of the world were focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) quietly turned ten

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Decoding the Debates: Fugitive Notes on Federal Economic Policy
Dr. Charles Blahous, political economist and former senatorial adviser, presidential adviser, and Security and Medicare public

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Better Health for More People at Lower Cost, Year after Year: Greatest Opportunities to Improve America’s Unbroken, but Underperforming Healthcare System
Chairman Alexander,It is a pleasure to respond to your call for ideas on rising healthcare costs. Twenty-first-century
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Utah’s Novel Approach to Medicaid Expansion
Charles Blahous writes on an effort by Utah to expand Medicaid in the state to childless adults below the poverty line.Read it
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The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate requires all large businesses to provide health insurance for their employees
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Stabilizing the ACA’s Individual Markets
Through its regime of subsidies, penalties, and federal regulations, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) made health insurance
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State of the Union and Health: Backward to Insurance, Forward to Care
President Trump’s State of the Union address included two markedly different points on health care policy. One, backward-looking
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Social Security, Healthcare Busting US Budget
2018 is an election year, which means there are long odds against comprehensive entitlement spending reforms being enacted
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The Individual Mandate: Gone, but Not Forgotten
The tax bill passed by congressional Republicans strips the contentious individual mandate from the Affordable Care Act in 2019
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Legislating Price Ignorance
The Affordable Care Act is a continuing case study on price signals.
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Individual Mandate Squeamishness Bodes Ill for Single-Payer
The Republican tax bill released on November 2 doesn’t touch the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”)
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No One Knows How Much in Costs We Individually Impose on the Healthcare System and That's a Huge Problem
A new executive order from President Trump revises the Affordable Care Act by ending taxpayer subsidies for insurance offered on