How Will Reform Affect Health Care Costs?
Issue Brief
Series of briefs outlines cost controls in health reform law.
Price of Care
You are now viewing 1 - 10 of 32 results
Sort results by:
Following the Money
August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A small fraction of Medicare beneficiaries use a disproportionate share of the program's resources. This study investigates whether the spending imbalance is more a function of market supply or demand.
Health Care Spending Under Reform
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief estimates the cost and coverage implications of the key provisions of the bill passed by the House of Representatives in November 2009.
Market Reforms
October 11, 2011 | Video
This short infographic video describes insurance market reforms taking place under health reform.
Health System Reform and Antitrust Law
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This policy brief addresses antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.
How We Can Pay for Health Care Reform
July 1, 2009 | Report
A new analysis shows that savings from many popular health reform ideas would finance the lion's share of the cost of comprehensive health care reform.
Massachusetts Health Reform
January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
In a new analysis by the Urban Institute, researchers John Holahan and Linda Blumberg summarize the state's accomplishments, examine the challenges, and suggest four options for addressing long-term costs.
Efficiency and Quality
May 1, 2009 | Report
Research identifies five options for controlling health care costs while increasing quality.
Sustaining Health Reform in a Recession
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The challenges faced by Massachusetts as it attempts to sustain health reform in these difficult times provide important lessons for implementing reform in the rest of the country.
Bending the Cost Curve
October 12, 2009 | Commentary
This commentary identifies methods to slow the increase in health care costs in the United States. The current proposed expansion of health insurance will cost the country an estimated trillion dollars over 10 years. To make this expansion possible, increases in the cost of health care must be curbed.