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Controlling Health Care Costs

Federal Antitrust Tools Are Inadequate to Prevent Anticompetitive Health Care Consolidation

blog / May 13, 2021

Aimee Cicchiello and Lovisa Gustafsson examine the weaknesses in antitrust oversight in health care consolidation.

Featured: Maternal Health

Ashley Esposito, who is pregnant with her first child due in July, stands outside her home in Baltimore, Maryland.

Advancing Health Equity

Maternity Care Innovations During COVID-19: Short-Term Solutions, Long-Term Potential

blog / May 06, 2021

What Will the Biden Administration Do for Women's Health?

Improving Health Care Quality

What Will the Biden Administration Do for Women’s Health?

Podcast / Apr 23, 2021

People line up to receive a rapid COVID-19 test among the agricultural community on February 17, 2021, in Immokalee, Florida.

Improving Health Care Quality

How Will the American Rescue Plan’s Medicaid Funding Help States?

blog / Mar 29, 2021

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United States Federal Trade Commission building

Controlling Health Care Costs

Federal Antitrust Tools Are Inadequate to Prevent Anticompetitive Health Care Consolidation

Blog / May 13, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of congress as Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) look on in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Achieving Universal Coverage

What Has President Biden Done in Health Care Coverage in His First 100 Days?

Blog / May 11, 2021

Transgender Rights Flag held by supporters of Trans rights

Advancing Health Equity

Federal Government Reinstates Health Care Protections for Transgender Americans

Blog / May 11, 2021

Patients affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus remain at a field hospital set up at a sports gym, in Santo Andre, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on March 26, 2021.

Advancing Health Equity

Latin America’s COVID-19 Crisis and Implications for the Rest of the World

Blog / May 10, 2021

Immigrants crossing the border in search of health care

Achieving Universal Coverage

Sick in the Shadows: Why Immigrants Should Have Health Care

Podcast / May 07, 2021

Ashley Esposito, who is pregnant with her first child due in July, stands outside her home in Baltimore, Maryland.

Advancing Health Equity

Maternity Care Innovations During COVID-19: Short-Term Solutions, Long-Term Potential

Blog / May 06, 2021

Woman and pharmacist speaking, both wearing masks

Controlling Health Care Costs

Medicare Part D Redesign

Explainer / May 05, 2021

Pills pouring out into a mans hand

Controlling Health Care Costs

Allowing Medicare to Negotiate Drug Prices

Explainer / May 05, 2021

Achieving Universal Coverage

A Permanent Boost to Federal Premium Assistance Could Change State Approaches to ACA 1332 Waivers

Blog / May 03, 2021

Dr. Giovanni Caforio, chairman and CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, is remotely questioned by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R–N.C.) during a hearing to discuss unsustainable drug prices with CEOs of major drug companies on September 30, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

Controlling Health Care Costs

House Oversight Committee’s Investigations into Drug Pricing Highlight Need for Reform

Blog / Apr 30, 2021

A patient with difficulty in breathing sits outside the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, one of the largest facilities for COVID-19 patients, in New Delhi on April 28, 2021.

Improving Health Care Quality

India’s Failure of Leadership Collapses Health System in COVID-19 Surge

Blog / Apr 29, 2021

An elderly patient admitted to the emergency room waits to be seen by a doctor.

Controlling Health Care Costs

Changing Diagnosis Patterns Are Increasing Medicare Spending for Inpatient Hospital Services

Publication / Apr 28, 2021

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