On Health Care, Conservatives Protest Too Much January 21, 2013 Perspective Lately conservatives have been feeling like losers in health care and complaining loudly about it. They don’t like Obamacare or the increase in the government’s role in health care or the federal spending it brings with it, even if those things result in coverage for more than 30 million uninsured…
JAMA Forum: The Stark Choices Ahead on the Future of Health Care March 22, 2012 Perspective Larry Levitt’s March 2012 post for the JAMA Forum is now online.
JAMA Forum: The Future of Private Insurance May 4, 2012 Perspective “The Future of Private Insurance,” Larry Levitt’s May 2012 post for the JAMA Forum, is now online.
JAMA Forum: After Supreme Court Ruling on the Health Care Law, Focus Turns to the States … and November June 28, 2012 Perspective “After Supreme Court Ruling on the Health Care Law, Focus Turns to the States … and November,” Larry Levitt’s June 2012 post for The JAMA Forum, is now online.
JAMA Forum: The Middle Class Tax Break Hardly Anyone Is Talking About August 2, 2012 Perspective “The Middle Class Tax Break Hardly Anyone Is Talking About,” Larry Levitt’s August 2012 post for The JAMA Forum, is now available online.
JAMA Forum: What Is Health Care Cost Containment? September 6, 2012 Perspective “What Is Health Care Cost Containment?” Larry Levitt’s September 2012 contribution to The JAMA Forum, is now available online.
JAMA Forum: Hard Questions on Health Care October 16, 2012 Perspective “Hard Questions on Health Care,” Larry Levitt’s October 2012 post on The JAMA Forum, is now available online.
JAMA Forum: Key Decisions Loom for States About the Health Care Law November 28, 2012 Perspective “Key Decisions Loom for States About the Health Care Law,” Larry Levitt’s November 2012 post for The JAMA Forum, is now available online.
Pre-X Redux June 20, 2013 Perspective With the focus now mainly on exchanges, Medicaid expansions, and enrolling the uninsured in newly available coverage arrangements, there is less attention lately to the ACA insurance reforms which have always been the most popular parts of the law – changes which could affect every American’s insurance in some way…
Pulling It Together: The Falloff in Utilization: “There’s Something Happening, Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear” April 10, 2012 Perspective For as long as I have been in the field, we have seen cycles in health care costs. Per capita health spending would rise, then moderate, then rise gain. My colleague Larry Levitt and I documented this in The Sad History of Health Care Costs and my friend Dr. Jim Mongan…
