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Taking Stock of Government Health Program Costs on Tax Day
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (846+ words) Brian Blase, Ph. D. , is the President of Paragon Health Institute. Brian was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House's'National Economic Council (NEC) from 2017-2019, where he coordinated the development and execution of numerous health policies and…...
Federal Health Program Spending Consumes 62 Percent of Relevant Federal Taxes
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (228+ words) Paragon Health Institute Federal Health Program Spending Consumes 62 Percent of Relevant Federal Taxes Mark Howell is a Research Assistant at Paragon Health Institute. He is passionate about advancing free-market solutions to improve healthcare access and affordability. As this Paragon PIC…...
New ACA Data'Improper Enrollment Barely Changed while Out-of-Pocket Premiums Remain Very Low
1+ week, 1+ day ago (268+ words) Paragon Health Institute New ACA Data'Improper Enrollment Barely Changed while Out-of-Pocket Premiums Remain Very Low Brian Blase, Ph. D. , is the President of Paragon Health Institute. Brian was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House's National…...
The Hospital Cost Shift Myth, ACA Enrollment Analysis, Longer-Term Insurance, and Colorado's Medicaid Mess
1+ week, 1+ day ago (587+ words) I highlight an important'Trump administration proposal'to allow longer-term, more flexible catastrophic health plans'an approach that could better align incentives for prevention and cost-conscious care. Finally, I discuss numerous problems in Colorado's Medicaid program, which illustrates how perverse incentives and weak…...
Busting The Myth of Hospital Cost Shift
1+ week, 3+ day ago (673+ words) A Myth that Won't Die The cost-shift hypothesis is not simply that private insurers pay more than Medicare or Medicaid. It is the causal claim that when government pays less, hospitals respond by charging private insurers more to offset those…...
Trump Administration Signals an Important Move Toward Longer-Term, More Flexible Health Insurance
1+ week, 6+ day ago (303+ words) Better Incentives from Longer-Term Plans A better system would encourage insurers to think long-term. When insurers expect to cover individuals over a longer time horizon, they have stronger incentives to invest in prevention, care management, and high-value services that are…...
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government Health Care Programs is No Joke
2+ week, 1+ day ago (439+ words) Dr. Oz pointed to examples that highlight how brazen these problems have become: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an'interview'last week that under the Biden administration: "People in my agency were ordered" not to enforce against…...
Taking A Closer Look MA and Fee-For-Service Cost Comparisons
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (776+ words) Jackson Hammond is a Senior Policy Analyst at Paragon Health Institute. He has been active in the federal and state health policy space since 2017. Prior to joining Paragon, Jackson was a health care policy analyst for American Action Forum (AAF)....
Provider Taxes Do Not Save Rural Hospitals
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (221+ words) Liam Sigaud is an Adjunct Scholar at the Paragon Health Institute and a Research Analyst at the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University. Medicaid is structured as an open-ended entitlement, with no cap on the amount of matching…...
Obamacare Enrollment Fraud Deep Dive: New Analysis Estimates Substantial Fraud in Nearly All Florida Counties
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (415+ words) Niklas Kleinworth is the Director of the State Health Reform Initiative and a Policy Analyst at the Paragon Health Institute, focusing on Medicaid and state policy initiatives. He has served in state and federal policy roles since 2021. Across this series…...