American Experiment on Health Care
Health Care Reports
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Working Paper: Three Strategies for Implementing a State Exchange
Executive Summary The Affordable Care Act asks states to set up insurance exchanges to “facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans.” The primary goal of an insurance exchange is to extend...
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Serious problems with the Health and Human Services omnibus bill
The House and Senate conferees on the Health and Human Services (HHS) omnibus supplemental budget bill finished their work late last night. The conferees managed to hit their budget targets and delive...
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A Conversation about Canadian and American Health Care with Lee Kurisko, M.D.
Lee Kurisko is a Canadian radiologist who formerly practiced in Thunder Bay, Ontario, as director of diagnostic imaging for Thunder Bay Regional Hospital....
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Health Care Articles
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Counterpoint: Gov. Dayton’s attack on Republican leader’s truthfulness is absurd
He’s wrong on several points, and unhelpful. In “Don’t believe Republicans: MNsure isn’t the problem” (Oct. 19), Gov. Mark Dayton levied a harsh attack on the truthfulness of statement...
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Medicaid Estate Claims: Not the Debt but the Surprise that’s the Problem
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people who enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure are making a shocking discovery: The state has placed a claim on their estate for the c...
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People enrolled in Medicaid through MNsure discover their assets are subject to estate claims
The Duluth News Tribune published an in-depth article on how some people ...
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Health Care Posts
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The Coronavirus crisis shows that Minnesota must lift its hospital moratorium
Minnesota's hospital moratorium, which blocks the expansion of hospital beds in the state, serves no useful purpose and harms Minnesotans. It should go. ...
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America needs masks, but federal regulations are getting in the way
In the case of N95 masks, regulations which are supposed to safeguard public health turn out to be obstacles in a public health crisis. ...
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How federal regulations—and regulators—held up coronavirus testing
The coronavirus crisis shows that regulations ostensibly intended to safeguard public health turn out, when a genuine public health crisis hits, to be positively harmful to public health....
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The costs of the FDA
The coronavirus is making very plain the costs as well as the benefits of our regulatory apparatus ...
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Pandemic? In Minnesota, Not Yet
The news is all COVID-19, all the time. But how serious is the epidemic so far, here in Minnesota? A friend emailed this analysis, which suggests that the virus has a long way to go–here at leas...
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Health Care Media
AEI Forum: Getting Beyond Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (1:50:24)
Peter Nelson joins a panel of experts to examines the potential and limits for insurance coverage innovations such as private exchanges, defined contribution payments, and corporate purchaser allianc...