Six economic facts about health care and health insurance markets after the Affordable Care Act

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2015/09/6-health-care-facts

Self-Discovery

The Hamilton Project offers six economic facts that highlight continuing challenges and complexities in health care and health insurance markets on which the policy debate should focus.

Marshall J. Seidman Lecture in Health Policy

http://www.brookings.edu/research/speeches/2015/11/02-seidman-lecture-harvard-elmendorf

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Health policy issues and the 2016 presidential election

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2015/11/campaign-2016-presidential-candidates-health-policy

Eight big issues the 2016 presidential candidates should address

Click to access reischauer-rivlin_final.pdf

 

How hospitals are prepping for Medicare’s mandatory bundled-pay test

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151118/NEWS/151119898?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=externalURL&utm_campaign=mostreq

Competition Among Medicare’s Private Health Plans: Does It Really Exist?

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/aug/competition-medicare-private-plans-does-it-exist

Warner Chilcott to pay $125 million over kickback scheme, former drug company officials indicted

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/warner-chilcott-pay-125-million-over-kickback-scheme-former-drug-company-officials-indicted?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovuKnPZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATMNkMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7nHLs161sIQWRjg

Whistleblowers net $22.9 million for exposing drug company’s fraud.

Budget agreement would cut some hospital-based outpatient payments

http://www.fiercehealthfinance.com/story/budget-agreement-would-cut-some-hospital-based-outpatient-payments/2015-10-28?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

But most existing payments grandfathered in during negotiations