How should we evaluate the ACA decade? We invited an all-star group of former government officials, lawyers, commentators, and highly respected academic researchers to evaluate the impact of the ACA and speculate about the future. This series of blog posts represents some of the responses. This post discusses the contents of the blog series as well as the thoughts of other authors included
in the forthcoming book The Trillion Dollar Revolution. Read More >>
Additional efforts to make audit-log data more comparable across vendors could make it possible to use system-generated data to measure the effect of these initiatives—without adding to burden in the process. Read More >>
Clay Christensen, perhaps the most influential business school professor of our era, passed from the world earlier
this year. Christensen articulated the concept of "disruptive innovation," in which outsiders with low-performance but low-price products compete for consumers poorly served or not served at all by industry insiders, and then gradually improve performance while retaining lower prices and thereby seize the heights as well as the depths of their markets. Read More >>
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The Affordable Care Act increased insurance coverage and access to care, according to numerous national studies. However, the administration of President Donald Trump implemented several policies that may have affected the act’s effectiveness. Kevin Griffith and coauthors used
survey data for 2011–17 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to assess changes in access to care among nonelderly adults from before to after the change in administration in 2017. Read More >>
The number of Americans dying from drug overdoses has risen rapidly, but the contribution of nonopioid drugs to this growth is not well understood. In this Health Affairs article from July 2019, Christopher J. Ruhm calculated levels of and increases in overall nonopioid fatal overdose rates and those for subgroups stratified by manner of
death, sex, race/ethnicity, and age. Policies designed to curb the opioid epidemic are probably helpful in reducing nonopioid deaths, but targeted interventions may also be needed.
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