Trump vs Biden on Health Care

Rhetoric vs. reality: employer views on consumer-driven health care.

Because of rising premiums, employers are investigating new health insurance approaches that maintain workers' broad choice of providers while raising awareness of health care costs through increased patient financial responsibility. Employers' knowledge of new health plan products, including consumer-driven health plans and tiered-provider networks, has grown considerably in recent years, acco...

Rural vs. Urban Ambulatory Health Care Review

Rural vs. Urban Ambulatory Health Care Review

Review Potentially eligible studies for full text review (n=333) Articles abstracted (n=192) Included studies (n=102) Studies added after peer review (n=3) Studies added: a. hand searching (n=5) b. Journal of Rural Health (n=19) Non-United States population = 6 Population <18 years old = 3 Not publication type criteria = 66 Not Healthcare outcomes, structure/process/harms = 80 Non-Rural Health ...

Course of Health Care Costs before and after Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment: Patient-Reported vs. Administrative Records

Background There is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. Thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

How the Trump Administration's Policies May Harm the Public's Health.

S ince this past November, when Donald J. Trump was elected to become the nation’s 45th president, there has been substantial and justifiable concern about the impact that his administration may have on health. Much of that public conversation has focused on the impact of the administration’s rollback of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Perhaps the most significant consequence of repealing the AC...