Shock to the System
A recession with a pandemic at its core may help us reckon with the links between the economy, inequality, and health.
Health care market uncertainties loom for insurers
With Republican efforts to repeal and/or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stalled, uncertainties loom for health insurers and could influence their future decisions on whether or not to participate in the ACA’s health care exchanges, according to…
Senate health care plan threatens the nation’s health
Senate Republicans have proposed a health care bill that would severely cut Medicaid and limit the access and affordability of private health insurance—in spite of clear evidence that health insurance expansions in the past have improved access to…
Rigorous research, not anecdotes, should guide Obamacare debate
As states and consumers debate making changes to Medicaid and other public health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, care should be taken to make sure health policy is shaped by rigorous research rather than by personal…
A guide to Obamacare
In this week’s episode: A health care expert offers her advice for people buying insurance through Obamacare.
Increase in visits to emergency departments persists following Medicaid expansion
For immediate release: October 19, 2016 Boston, MA – Visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) not only jumped by 40% in Oregon after Medicaid coverage was expanded there in 2008—but the increase persisted for at least two years, according…
Building the evidence to shape health policies under Obamacare
Health economist Katherine Baicker of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health was interviewed on the July 13 episode of Politico’s Pulse Check podcast about her pioneering work with the Oregon health insurance experiment, what she thinks of…
Evaluating presidential candidates’ economic proposals
Most of the presidential candidates’ economic proposals are bad, although a few have some merit, according to a panel of economists contacted by NPR’s Planet Money. Katherine Baicker, C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics at Harvard T.H.…
Summit brings together U.S., China health leaders
October 6, 2015 — Public health practitioners, policy makers, and industry representatives from China and the U.S. gathered September 28–29, 2015, to share experiences and ideas around health system reform. The 5th U.S.–China Summit, hosted by Harvard T.H.…
Emergency room doctors busy, despite ACA
Doctors responding to an American College of Emergency Physicians poll released May 4, 2015 report more patients are seeking emergency room treatment since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014. One of the ACA selling…