Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
A paper by Fabre and Straub (2023) examines how public-private partnerships (PPP) have worked in practice. Why would linking public and private provisions of goods and services be useful? One reason is that the public sector might have policy goals (e.g., providing health care to the poor), which the private sector may not provide in…
That is the title of a new working paper written by myself, any my FTI Consulting colleagues Sabiha Quddus and Suhail Thahir. The abstract is below. Some policymakers have called for weakening of intellectual property protections for vaccines and other pharmaceutical products, with the aim to reduce the price and improve access to existing medical…
On May 10, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on “Examining Policies that Inhibit Innovation and Patient Access“. You can view the testimony here. I summarized submitted Congressional Testimony with the help of ChatGPT below. Actual testimony submitted is also referenced below as well. Mr. Tony Gonzales, National Early-Stage Advisor, Alzheimer’s Association.…
Today I’m turning this post over to some of my FTI colleagues in Europe (Antoine Mialhe, Katja Murray and Valeria Fagone among others) who helped summarize the Reform of the EU pharmaceutical legislation that the European Union (EU) adopted on April 26, 2023. The summary below is provided by the FTI Consulting team in Brussels…
That is the title of a new USC Schaeffer Center white paper authored by Dana Goldman, Joe Grogan, Darius Lakdawalla, Barry Liden, Kyi-Sin Than, Erin Trish and myself. An excerpt from the press release is below, and the full white paper is here (HTML, PDF). 1. Bring transparency and a focus on value to the…
That is one of the key questions from the IVI”s recent Value Blueprint paper titled “Prioritized Attributes to Better Define and Measure Innovation in Health Technology Assessment“. The expert roundtable convened by IVI examines not only whether there is a consensus about how to implement the value element (“method readiness”) but also if their is…
How can we help improve the lives of children? Does this mean giving money to their families or providing in kind good or services (e.g., frees schooling, health care, food stamps, housing)? Should any cash or in-kind transfers be made unconditionally or based on some conditions (e.g., require school attendance)? Many other countries use cash…
According to a 2022 CBO report, healthcare spending per person is much higher for commercially insured individuals than those insured by Medicare and this difference is largely drive by price differentials. Why are the outstanding research questions related to the prices commercial insurers pay providers? That is the topic of a recent Health Affairs article…
Every year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) makes projections of what the federal budget will look like, in particular, what the government debt and annual deficits will be. Note that these should not be seen as forecasts since CBO projections aim to measure what will happen over the next 10 years assuming no change to…
Paid family leave (PFL) provide paid time off for workers who care for a newborn (parental leave) or care for a sick or temporarily disabled family member (caregiving leave). The US is one of the few countries that does not offer PFL, but a number of State have decided to adopt their own policy. California…