Healthcare
Healthcare costs continue to rise across the system but without marked improvements in healthcare quality. This imbalance disproportionately affects the most vulnerable Americans, who depend on Medicaid for healthcare. Mercatus research focuses on how to make Medicaid more fiscally sustainable and able to deliver better care to those who need it. Mercatus is also developing ways to quantify the impact of regulations on quality, access, and cost in US healthcare.
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From Proposal to Policy: Does Policy Reflect the Quality or the Quantity of Evidence? | Open Health Policy
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Those Covered Under Medicaid Expansion Are Costing Much More Than Expected | Open Health Policy
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Kansas Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
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Missouri House Emerging Issues Committee
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Virginia House Health, Welfare, and Institutions Committee
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Comment to the Healthy Future Task Force Security Subcommittee
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Comment to the Healthy Future Task Force Security Subcommittee
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Comment to the Healthy Future Task Force Security Subcommittee
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Missouri's Certificate-of-Need Program: Lessons from Research
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Healthcare Quality, Insurance Coverage, Pandemic Policy, and Competition: Four Areas for Reform
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Testimony before the Senate Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee
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Latest work in Healthcare
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
From Proposal to Policy: Does Policy Reflect the Quality or the Quantity of Evidence? | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Those Covered Under Medicaid Expansion Are Costing Much More Than Expected | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Best of Open Health: The Deadly Effects of Nursing Home Lockdowns | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
A Flight Plan for Healthcare: Diagnosing Why We Need More Efficient Regulation | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Did the ACA Undermine the Beneficial Effects of Medicaid for Children? | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Red Ink: Congress Can’t Control Spending Without Reforming How We Pay For Health Care | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Medicaid Expansion and the Opioid Overdose Crisis | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Best of Open Health: Rapid Antigen Tests — a Missed Opportunity | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Ten Years In, the Medicaid Expansion Is Failing the Neediest Americans | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Federal Medicaid Funding Is Failing the States That Need It the Most | Governing
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
As North Carolina Expands Medicaid, Unintended Consequences Should Not Be Ignored | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Best of Open Health: Section 361, CDC Overreach, and Congress | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Cheer up, Folks! | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Less Vaping, More Smoking | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Long CON: Are Certificate-Of-Need Laws Helping or Hurting Rural Healthcare? | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Kaiser Permanente Strikers Have a Point | Open Health Policy
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Controlling Healthcare Costs: Will Shaming and Coercing Hospitals Work? | Open Health Policy
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