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Focus Area
Publication
October 2024 Elliott S. Fisher, Christopher F. Koller, Carrie H. Colla, Alena Berube,
Abstract Health care is increasingly unaffordable in the United States. While comprehensive, affordable health coverage for middle- and… More
Blog Post
September 2024 Kelsey Koenen Witt,
Throughout the country, rising health care costs are constraining employer profits, decreasing employee wages, and crowding out other state spending… More
News Article
August 2024
An August 8, 2024, Health Affairs Forefront article by Jessica Mar and January Angeles of Bailit Health on trends in health care cost growth target… More
July 2024 Christine Haran, Mary Louise Gilburg,
In July 2024, eight Washington health plans signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), committing to multipayer primary care transformation. The MOU… More
Event
July 2024
The US health sector is vast, with annual national health expenditures estimated at $5.0 trillion. There is no single source of publicly available… More
July 2024 Roslyn C. Murray, Christopher M. Whaley, Erin C. Fuse Brown, Andrew M. Ryan,
Policy Points States grappling with high and rising health care spending can draw inspiration from the Oregon State Employee Plan’s hospital… More
Drawing on the Peterson-Milbank hospital financial analysis guides, this slide deck explains how rising hospital spending is driving health care… More
June 2024 Rachel Block,
“If this is love I want my money back” – Hot Tuna This sentiment may well capture the mood in US primary care today. The 2021 National… More
May 2024
Rhode Island met its health care cost growth target in 2022, according to the 2024 health care spending and quality report released by the Office of the Health Insurance Commission (OHIC) at a public hearing earlier this month. More
May 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Steward was sent packing and the community staved off the private equity beast. The result has been less than universally satisfying, but as states and communities struggle with health system consolidation, health care affordability, and difficult resource allocation decisions, this story of how the private equity wolves were thwarted may offer lessons. More
