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July 21, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite the importance of affordability to universal access to health insurance coverage, there is wide variability in what is considered affordable.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In this study, the authors examined spending growth among the privately insured between 2001 and 2006, separating the contributions of price changes from those driven by consumption.
June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the "affordability" standard with regard to consumption patterns for health coverage and services. The author explores crucial differences between health care consumption and the consumption of other merit goods (i.e., food and housing).
June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article describes underlying problems in the markets for small group and individual insurance appraises current methods of subsidizing insurance for high-risk individuals and discusses how risk adjustment addresses conflicts between the group and individual insurance markets.
May 6, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examines two factors that might account for slower health spending: job loss and benefit changes that shifted more costs to insured people.
January 14, 2013 | Journal Article
A call to change the method of calculating federal contributions to state Medicaid programs that more accurately takes into account individual—and changing—state economic circumstances
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Consumers may be exposed to significant unexpected and unreasonable out-of-pocket costs due to lack of accurate information on network participation and cost transparency.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This paper analyzes the effect of the Massachusetts health care reform on reported health care utilization and outcomes by both synthesizing the existing research and providing new evidence using the National Health Interview Survey.
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examines how different drug plan benefit and formulary designs influence the selection of generic drugs to treat high cholesterol among Medicare beneficiaries.
September 12, 2012 | Journal Article
In the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD), 10 accountable care organization (ACO) physician groups were eligible to receive a portion of savings generated if they also showed improvement on 32 quality measures. The Centers for Me ...