Three-quarters of insurance executives believe artificial intelligence will revolutionise the industry within a few years. It promises lower premiums, but brings ethical risks too.
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The biggest problem in the Indonesian universal healthcare program is that members' contribution is less than the spending to pay claims for hospitals and other health services.
No longer can young people invest in their education and work their way into secure employment. The health impacts of this job insecurity are profound.
The Trump administration's latest effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act is the expansion of short-term insurance plans. But these shorter plans are also short on real benefits.
Britain's health service will soon cost £200 billion. Don't mope, it's cause for celebration.
Efforts to undo Obamacare went far beyond grass-roots activities, with new research showing that contributions by businesses were significant. Does this signal a change in the political process?
Will Ottawa's new advisory council on pharmacare amount to "just another study," or is a national program truly within reach?
By undermining the ACA, Republicans may be taking away one of the health care system's best tools for improving the lives of those with addiction.
Three business giants, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, announced plans to change health care delivery and insurance as we know it. Here's why that could be a major disruption.
The new rules Kentucky and other states want to impose could leave millions of Americans who benefit from this safety net program uninsured – and resorting to the emergency room for their health care.
Funding for a children's health insurance program ran out at the end of last September. Despite the program's clear benefits, plans to renew it have been caught in partisan bickering.
CVS, which operates nearly 10,000 pharmacies across the country, announced intentions to buy Aetna, the nation's third-largest provider of health insurance. Here's how consumers could be affected.
If Americans become less healthy and have less access to health care, then everyone loses.
Once young women could access health insurance through their parents, they seemed to make very different decisions about contraception, abortion and marriage.
About 20 per cent of refugees to Canada are pregnant. Many of them are medically uninsured. It's not only morally correct to provide prenatal care, but also cheaper for Canada's system to do so.
The opening session of a meeting of neurologists focused on a problem plaguing doctors: burnout. Doctors are growing increasingly stressed, and it's affecting patients, too.
In most markets, diversity and choice foster robust competition. In health insurance they could lead to fragmentation and market failure.
The French health care system is rated as one of the best in the world, but it’s a shield that’s under increasing stress.
Medicaid, a state-federal entitlement program that people associate only with the poor, pays for care for more than six in 10 nursing home residents. That could be you, or someone you love.
The Republican position on health care has been based upon a belief in individual choice. Here's how their own versions of health care bills eroded choice, however, and how they also did harm.
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Professor, Allied Health Research, Melbourne Health, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW
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Doctoral Student, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney
