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The U.S. health care policy landscape is poised for great change. Extensive RAND research offers insights about the likely impact of repealing or revising the ACA along key dimensions, including Medicaid, the individual mandate, effects on employers, tax subsidies, changing rating regulations, and essential health benefits.
Health care systems may be financed in various ways, including through government funding, taxation, out-of-pocket payments, private insurance, and donations or voluntary aid. RAND research explores the effects of corporate and government health care financing policies on such groups as patients, businesses, hospitals, and physician-providers.
A Protocol for Ongoing Systematic Scoping Reviews of World Trade Center Health Research. This paper presents a protocol for ongoing scoping reviews of WTC-related health research. Our review will support planning activities by Program policymakers and stakeholders as they work to achieve the Program's research goals.
RAND Health Care explores the shifting landscape of U.S. health care policy in the wake of COVID-19, including the changing role of telehealth, assessing the health insurance safety net, and evaluating ACA modifications and replacements.
After decades of evolution and experiment, the U.S. health care system has yet to solve a fundamental challenge: delivering quality health care to all Americans at an affordable price. In the coming years, new solutions will be explored and older ideas revisited.
Men and women differ markedly in patterns of illness and longevity. In their book Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies, RAND sociologist Chloe Bird and Harvard Medical School sociologist Patricia Rieker provide a new way to think about gender and health, as well as insight into the factors that contribute to men's and women's opportunities to create a ...
Contrary to expectations, these report cards appear to affect the health care decisionmaking of large health care providers more than that of individual consumers. We have learned through our own experience and that of others that the way report cards organize and present their evaluations strongly influences whether the report cards are used.
Although Medicare covers post-acute care services, such as skilled nursing facility care and skilled home health care, this coverage is usually limited in duration and not intended as a primary source of long-term support. State Medicaid programs are the country's largest payers for these services and supports (Colello, 2022).
With scientific advances, Medicaid expansion, and political consensus on the importance of improving mental health, the time is ripe for transforming the U.S. mental health system. This will mean structural reforms that address patients' challenges in finding, accessing, and receiving high-quality and timely care.
One goal of health policy research is to improve cost effectiveness without compromising quality of care. RAND researchers examine treatments, programs, drugs, and technologies in terms of their costs, their cost effectiveness, and the alternatives that may or may not present a better, more efficient way forward.