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Fixing Health Care’s Leaky Pipes: 1% Steps for Health Care Reform
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To Constrain Soaring Health Insurance Premiums, We Must Constrain Growing Health Care Spending
In a new study published in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed premiums, health care spending, and insurer markups from 2011 to 2024 across fully-insured large-group, small-group, and individual (Marketplace) insurance markets. The picture that emerges is clear, and it should inform how policymakers think about making health insurance more affordable.
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Where America's Hospitals Are Closing — and Opening
Response to Senate Finance RFI on Lower Health Costs
Fixing Health Care’s Leaky Pipes: 1% Steps for Health Care Reform
To Constrain Soaring Health Insurance Premiums, We Must Constrain Growing Health Care Spending
In a new study published in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed premiums, health care spending, and insurer markups from 2011 to 2024 across fully-insured large-group, small-group, and individual (Marketplace) insurance markets. The picture that emerges is clear, and it should inform how policymakers think about making health insurance more affordable.
Response to Senate Finance RFI on Lowering Drug Prices for Patients
Where America's Hospitals Are Closing — and Opening
Just the Facts on Health Care Consolidation
Our two latest briefs tackle one of the most consequential forces reshaping U.S. health care markets: consolidation.
Zack Cooper testifies on rising health care spending before the Texas Select Committee on Health Care Affordability
Just the Facts: Findings, No Fluff
There are few issues more complex and personal than health care. This is what makes health care reform so tricky and politically nuanced.
Six Proposed Hospital Mergers–And How They Would Affect Hospital Concentration in Their Communities
A new tool from the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale allows users to explore how hospital mergers, closures, ownership changes, and rising market concentration are reshaping U.S. hospital markets and potentially driving up prices.
A Ranking of All 50 States by Hospital Consolidation
Across the country, rising health care costs are putting immense financial pressure on American families.
A Tale of Two Hospital Markets: New Haven and Washington, D.C.
Hospital consolidation is reshaping health care in communities across the country.
A New Tool For Understanding Hospital Consolidation in Your Community
The $1.6 trillion U.S. hospital sector accounts for the plurality (31%) of domestic health care spending and 6% of the Gross Domestic Product.
Introducing The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale
The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale studies why health care in the U.S. costs so much—and what can be done to slow spending growth without harming quality.