Opioid epidemic part of broader public health challenges
Katherine Swartz sees the opioid epidemic as part of a broader set of public health challenges related to mental health and disparities in treatment options for people with substance use disorders.
‘Reinsurance’ program critical to shoring up the ACA
August 14, 2017 – With Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stalled, one of the ideas being floated to help shore up health insurance marketplaces is to bring back a federal reinsurance program, similar…
Women experience high rates of health insurance ‘churn’ before and after childbirth
Many women, particularly those covered under Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, may lose access to prenatal and postpartum care For immediate release: April 3, 2017 Boston, MA – A high percentage of women in the U.S.…
Navigating the Affordable Care Act
Open enrollment for people buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act begins November 1, 2016 and runs through January 31, 2017. Katherine Swartz shared her advice for those shopping for insurance.
A guide to Obamacare
In this week’s episode: A health care expert offers her advice for people buying insurance through Obamacare.
A timely strategy for improving health insurance signups
Shifting the open enrollment period for health insurance signups could boost enrollments and may help people make better health plan choices, according to a new study. The next open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces established by…
Health care reform undoing ‘job lock’
The Affordable Care Act is providing a cure for the phenomenon known as “job lock” — when a worker stays in a position solely for employer-sponsored health insurance. That’s according to Katherine Swartz, professor of health policy and…
Massachusetts’ health care reform experience holds lessons for national effort
Massachusetts’ six years of experience with health care reform holds valuable lessons for the nation as it prepares to begin fully implementing the Affordable Care Act in 2014. In a September 5, 2012 article in the New England…
Implementing insurance exchanges: U.S. policy makers can learn from Europe
A key part of the healthcare reforms in the Affordable Care Act are state-based health insurance exchanges. Beginning in January 2014 individuals and small employers will be able to compare and purchase health plans through their state’s exchange.…
HSPH faculty contribute to Affordable Care Act brief generating Supreme Court buzz
Amicus, or “friend of the court” briefs have been filed in record number prior to the start of oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of the federal health care reform law known as the Affordable…