The Affordable Care Act gets blamed for many health care ills, but here’s one condition that it should not be blamed for.
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Alternatives to Obamacare look to address rising premiums and less consumer choice. What options does the US have and how could they work?
Recent Supreme Court rulings played a crucial role in the cultural politics that got Donald Trump elected.
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it?
Double-digit premium increases are leading to an outcry that the Affordable Care Act is not working, yet parts of it are. Here’s what works, and ideas on how to fix what doesn’t.
As Obamacare premium prices rise, many are asking why the U.S. doesn’t have universal health care in the first place. The reasons may surprise you.
While it’s hard to separate fact from hysteria when it comes to the Affordable Care Act, here are some expert voices to explain some of the candidates’ proposals on the health care law.
The Affordable Care Act increased the number of insured people, but skeptics have suggested the increase could be due to higher employment rates. That’s not the case, a detailed study suggests.
Cost and quality issues have long plagued the U.S. health care system because insurance companies both finance and manage medical care. So how did we get stuck with this system in the first place?
TV news stories often frame contraception as a political or social issue, rather than a medical issue, depriving the public of vital health information.
Aetna’s cutback in the ACA marketplace has raised concerns about the health of the health care law. Here’s why stories of its demise may be greatly exaggerated.
The absence of comprehensive dental care exacts a toll on millions of Americans in terms of poor health, pain and the social stigma associated with bad teeth.
Democratic candidates support access to contraception, while candidates from the Republican Party favor policies that could severely restrict access to contraception.
The leading GOP candidates all claim one of their top priorities will be to repeal Obamacare. An architect of the original law outlines the thorny – but plausible – path to repeal.
The long-serving justice changed how judges talk about statutes, but not, argues one law professor, how they ultimately interpret them.
Price in health care is a squishy concept. Different words relating to cost – charge, price and out-of-pocket cost – all have different meanings.
It looks like where you live, and what regulations that state has for health insurers, may have a major impact on whether you are diagnosed early or not.
Picking a plan that provides the coverage you need at a price you can afford is tough. It’s even harder when you don’t have a great understanding of the language that insurers use to describe plans.
Twenty-four percent of federal agency executives want to leave their jobs. A new survey reveals a federal workforce under severe stress.
Meaningful insurance coverage, access to health care and costs were problems before King v Burwell and are still problems today.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
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Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Health Law, West Virginia University
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Professor of Public Health Practice, Harvard University
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Yunus Chair and Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
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The Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine., University of Chicago
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Associate Professor in American Politics and American Foreign Policy, University of Leicester
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Managment, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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