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Stanford scholars debate Affordable Care Act: What steps should …

WEBThe Affordable Care Act has helped decrease the number of uninsured Americans, with about 20 million more people gaining health coverage since passage of …

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Health Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

WEBHealth and health care are important components of a nation’s well-being and the functioning of health care markets is unique in many ways. SIEPR has a deep bench of …

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Big ideas, small fixes: Improving US health care Stanford Institute

WEBTodd Park, co-founder of Devoted Health, says the private sector has a role in thinking outside the health care box. Todd Park, the co-founder of Devoted Health, …

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Jacob Goldin receives NIHCM Award for his research on health …

WEBJacob Goldin, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and a faculty fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), was awarded a National …

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How the Affordable Care Act has improved farmworkers’ health

WEBMore than 2.5 million agricultural workers help maintain the United States’ abundant food supply. They play a vital role in the economy, but their job is hard and …

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New study of gun violence in schools identifies long-term harms

WEBThe most comprehensive analysis to date of American children who experience gun violence at school finds that they have higher rates of school …

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What’s behind the increase in ADHD

WEBADHD — estimated to affect 7 percent of children worldwide — is characterized by a range of symptoms, including trouble with concentrating, paying attention, staying organized, and remembering details. To better understand the rise in ADHD caseloads, the researchers used population, education and health data from …

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Study dispels two myths about telemedicine Stanford Institute for

WEBStudy dispels two myths about telemedicine. As health care delivery evolves from the pandemic, Liran Einav and colleagues find that concerns over higher …

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America's medical debt is much worse than we think

WEBThe No. 1 source of debt collections. Published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Mahoney's study is based on the largest-ever dataset of medical debt in the United States and examines all outstanding payments over time. It finds substantial variation across the country and by income, with debt loads hitting the …

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2024 Annual Health Economics Conference Stanford Institute for

WEBAfter a successful post-Covid restart of the Annual Health Economics Conference (AHEC) in 2023, we are going to continue with the AHEC 2024 meeting …

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Health Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

WEBEconomic Report of the President draws on work of SIEPR scholars. President Biden’s assessment of the nation’s economic health and groundwork for …

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Study: Striking inequalities in US infant and maternal health point …

WEBAs part of their study, Persson and Rossin-Slater also benchmark the income gradients in infant and maternal health in the U.S. to those in Sweden, a high …

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Health Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

WEBThe Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians”. Heft-Neal, Sam, Carlos Gould, Marissa Childs, Matthew Kiang, Kari Nadeau, Mark Duggan, Eran Bendavid, and Marshall Burke. …

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Moral hazard in health insurance: How important is forward …

WEBWe investigate whether individuals exhibit forward looking behavior in their response to the non-linear pricing common in health insurance contracts.

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Study finds medical debt relief doesn’t always work Stanford

WEBWhen it comes to helping Americans manage rising health care costs, one increasingly popular policy stands out for both its simplicity and potential payoff: Buy up …

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Study finds ‘substantial’ costs on workers with severe COVID-19

WEBThere are still many unanswered questions about the health and economic consequences of COVID-19. How many people have gotten sick? How much longer will …

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Victor Fuchs, pioneer of health care economics, has died

WEBVictor Fuchs talks about the viability of a single-payer health insurance system at a Feb. 5, 2018, event at SIEPR. Starting about 10 years ago, Fuchs would regularly come to SIEPR to meet with Shoven — SIEPR's then-faculty director — and Gregory Rosston, the Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at SIEPR who at the time was …

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How better access to mental health care can reduce crime

WEBThose with mental health histories tend to have higher recidivism rates, serve longer sentences, and have more expensive medical needs than those without mental illness …

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Melding AI with health care and policy to combat human trafficking

WEBThe Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab conducts critical research through a collaboration among academics, health-care providers and frontline trafficking experts and prosecutors.

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