Healthcare
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Human Capital and the Fight Against Poverty in Mexico
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Harris School of Public Policy alum David García-Junco discusses his career combatting poverty through the health and human capital sectors.
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No Room for Smoking or Obesity: How North Carolina Dealt with Costly Retiree Insurance
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Researchers evaluate North Carolina’s attempts to rein in the escalating cost of retiree healthcare.
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The Deadly Vaccine Loophole: Religious Exemptions and the Rise of Pertussis in New York
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Exemptions to vaccines have played a large role in the reoccurrence of diseases previously thought to be under control in the United States.
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Reducing Poverty: How Medicaid Does More Than Just Improve Access to Healthcare in Cities
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Recent research provides evidence supporting the poverty-reducing effects of Medicaid in urban areas.
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Buying Health Insurance in Illinois: The Other Item on Your New Year Wish List
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The Executive Director of GetCoveredIllinois, the state-federal partnership health insurance marketplace in Illinois, discusses the marketplace’s recent launch and what is next.
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The Power of the (Medicare) Dollar: Changes in Medicare Payments Affect Private Insurance Payouts
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A study of market factors that influence Medicare’s ability to set prices provides interesting and offsetting long term implications.
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Sewing Up the Hole in the Safety Net: Hope for the Hard-To-Reach Homeless Through Medicaid Expansion
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A study of Massachusetts’ Medicaid expansion shows a significant increase in Medicaid enrollment among the homeless seeking substance abuse treatment.
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Death by Insurance: Disparities in Healthcare Outcomes Based on Payment Methods
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Researchers find a link between health outcomes and the type of insurance used by patients being treated for similar medical conditions at the same hospitals.
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The Art of Negotiation: Hospitals and Managed Care
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A study models the effect of negotiations between Managed Care Organizations and Hospitals on the cost of health care.
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Health IT—Helpful or Not?
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A disappointing performance for health information technology and Electronic Medical Records in a study of Medicare Patient outcomes
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor… But Tell Them to get Healthcare in Canada
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There are disparities in healthcare utilization rates between the US and Canada for disadvantaged subgroups.