In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides an opportunity to gauge the effects of expanding access to public health insurance on the health care use, financial strain, and health of low-income adults using a randomized controlled […]
Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Medicare for All
A skirmish broke out recently between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about the merits of single-payer health care, an idea that Mr. Sanders has long advocated.The candidates jousted about the financing of single-payer health care during theDemocratic debate Saturday night. The differences between the two candidates on single-payer health care paint Mrs. Clinton as more moderate and Mr. Sanders as […]
Medicare: Not Such a Budget-Buster Anymore
You’re looking at the biggest story involving the federal budget and a crucial one for the future of the American economy. Every year for the last six years in a row, the Congressional Budget Office has reduced its estimate for how much the federal government will need to spend on Medicare in coming years. The […]
Where Health Care Is Better and Cheaper: Answers to 10 Questions
Why should I care that one hospital charges 11 times as much as another for an M.R.I.? There are two main reasons the prices that insurance companies negotiate with hospitals matter for ordinary consumers. One is that a growing number of health plans include deductibles and other types of cost sharing. If you have a […]
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