Healthcare
Healthcare costs continue to rise across the system but without marked improvements in healthcare quality. This imbalance disproportionately affects the most vulnerable Americans, who depend on Medicaid for healthcare. Mercatus research focuses on how to make Medicaid more fiscally sustainable and able to deliver better care to those who need it. Mercatus is also developing ways to quantify the impact of regulations on quality, access, and cost in US healthcare.
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Toward Greater Access to Health Care in Maine
Bills before the Legislature would prepare the regulatory landscape so Maine has greater and more precise remote diagnoses, monitoring and treatment.
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The Benefits of Mobilizing Nurse Practitioners in Louisiana
Testimony before the Louisiana Senate, Health and Welfare Committee
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What Uber Can Teach Healthcare
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The Future of Telehealth: Bright, but Hazy
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Why Is CON Still in Alaska?
CON laws are little more than expensive and time-consuming barriers to care.
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South Carolina's Certificate-of-Need Program: Lessons from Research
Testimony before the South Carolina Senate, Medical Affairs Committee, Certificate-of-Need Subcommittee
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Fortress and Frontier: What the Data Say About COVID-19
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Waiving IP Protection for COVID Vaccines Is Anti-Innovation and Anti–Public Health
Patent rights were key to the unprecedentedly rapid development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Covid will dominate the headlines, but so could Russia, North Korea and a malaria vaccine.
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Proposed Legislation Increases Openness in and Access to Healthcare in Maine
Testimony before the Maine Legislature, Joint Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance, and Financial Services
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A Missed Opportunity To Expand WV Health Care
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Lack of Resources and Lack of Authority Over Nonprofit Organizations Are the Biggest Hindrances to Antitrust Enforcement in Healthcare
Testimony before the US House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Healthcare Prices: When Transparency Means Trouble
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The Benefits of Mobilizing Nurse Practitioners in Louisiana
Testimony before the Louisiana House of Representatives, Committee on Health and Welfare
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Alaska's Certificate-of-Need Program: Lessons from Research
Testimony before the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing Committee of the Alaska State Legislature
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Benefits to Patients and Providers in Alaska With the Removal of CON Laws
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Minnesota and Certificate-of-Need Programs 2020
How CON laws Affect Health Care Access, Quality, and Cost in Minnesota
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Wisconsin and Caps on Healthcare Service 2020
While Wisconsin does not have a certificate-of-need program, it does cap five healthcare services
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On Telemedicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Make the Health Care System Fairer For Young People
Latest work in Healthcare
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Toward Greater Access to Health Care in Maine
Bills before the Legislature would prepare the regulatory landscape so Maine has greater and more precise remote diagnoses, monitoring and treatment.
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
The Benefits of Mobilizing Nurse Practitioners in Louisiana
Testimony before the Louisiana Senate, Health and Welfare Committee
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What Uber Can Teach Healthcare
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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The Future of Telehealth: Bright, but Hazy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Why Is CON Still in Alaska?
CON laws are little more than expensive and time-consuming barriers to care.
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
South Carolina's Certificate-of-Need Program: Lessons from Research
Testimony before the South Carolina Senate, Medical Affairs Committee, Certificate-of-Need Subcommittee
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
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Fortress and Frontier: What the Data Say About COVID-19
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Waiving IP Protection for COVID Vaccines Is Anti-Innovation and Anti–Public Health
Patent rights were key to the unprecedentedly rapid development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Four Stories to Watch for (the Rest Of) 2021
Covid will dominate the headlines, but so could Russia, North Korea and a malaria vaccine.
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Proposed Legislation Increases Openness in and Access to Healthcare in Maine
Testimony before the Maine Legislature, Joint Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance, and Financial Services
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
A Missed Opportunity To Expand WV Health Care
- | Antitrust and Competition Antitrust and Competition
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Lack of Resources and Lack of Authority Over Nonprofit Organizations Are the Biggest Hindrances to Antitrust Enforcement in Healthcare
Testimony before the US House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Healthcare Prices: When Transparency Means Trouble
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
The Benefits of Mobilizing Nurse Practitioners in Louisiana
Testimony before the Louisiana House of Representatives, Committee on Health and Welfare
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Alaska's Certificate-of-Need Program: Lessons from Research
Testimony before the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing Committee of the Alaska State Legislature
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Benefits to Patients and Providers in Alaska With the Removal of CON Laws
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Publication
Minnesota and Certificate-of-Need Programs 2020
How CON laws Affect Health Care Access, Quality, and Cost in Minnesota
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Publication
Wisconsin and Caps on Healthcare Service 2020
While Wisconsin does not have a certificate-of-need program, it does cap five healthcare services
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On Telemedicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Make the Health Care System Fairer For Young People
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16 | Hawaii
Score: 3.36 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 16
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3 | Idaho
Score: 3.73 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 3
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44 | Illinois
Score: 2.91 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 44
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4 | Indiana
Score: 3.72 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 4
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27 | Iowa
Score: 3.17 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 27
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26 | Kansas
Score: 3.17 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 26
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46 | Kentucky
Score: 2.85 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 46
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12 | Louisiana
Score: 3.47 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 12
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25 | Maine
Score: 3.22 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 25
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40 | Maryland
Score: 2.93 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 40
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38 | Massachusetts
Score: 2.95 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 38
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31 | Michigan
Score: 3.15 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 31
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33 | Minnesota
Score: 3.08 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 33
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11 | Mississippi
Score: 3.53 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 11
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5 | Missouri
Score: 3.71 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 5
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2 | Montana
Score: 3.75 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 2
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2018 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project
Mapping the Frontier for the Next Generation of American Healthcare, June 2018 Update
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8 | Nebraska
Score: 3.61 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 8
- | 2018 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2018 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project
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15 | Nevada
Score: 3.38 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 15
- | 2018 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2018 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project
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17 | New Hampshire
Score: 3.34 (US mean: 3.20, median: 3.17), Rank: 17
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When Saving a Child's Life for Free is Bad News
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Are High-Risk Pools Market-Friendly?
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Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Help Care for Aging Populations
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Let Surgeons Do Surgery
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Floridians Will Now Have More Access to Greater Quality, Lower Cost Health Care
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Want Higher Healthcare Costs? Try Mandatory Price Transparency
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No, My Study Didn’t Find Medicare for All Would Lower U.S. Health Costs by $2 Trillion
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The Winners and Losers of ‘Medicare for All’
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The Winners and Losers of ‘Medicare for All’
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For Better Primary Care Access, Look to Supply-Side Solutions
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Patients Need Access to Affordable Primary Care. Are Value-Based Payments the Answer?
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Obesity and the Limits of Design
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Enabling Telemedicine — Legal and Regulatory Challenges
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Top-down government efforts to corral drug prices will fail
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The Ineffable Ethics of DNA
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O, Canada — the ‘Crisis’ of American Health Care Costs
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How Is China’s Drug Approval Agency Outpacing International Counterparts? It’s Complicated
China's Reforms Hold Lessons for US Policymakers
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Vaping Is Saving Lives
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A 'Generic' Solution through Trade
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