The June 2012 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that found the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) to be constitutional (as a tax) opens a new chapter of uncertainty in terms of the future of health reform. Calls for repealing,...

In this paper we provide a comprehensive examination of Americans' priorities within both health and health care. We find that Americans do have a clear set of priorities in each of these areas. Americans rated cancer, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),...

This paper examines the amount of savings Medicare beneficiaries are projected to need to cover program deductibles, premiums and other health expenses in retirement. For the purposes of this study, health expenses include premiums for Medicare Parts B and D, premiums for Medigap Plan F, and...

Millions Saved (2016) is a new edition of detailed case studies on the attributable impact of global health programs at scale. As an input to the book, this paper provides an independent assessment of the cost-effectiveness of a selection of the cases using ex post information from impact...

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

This paper updates previous estimates by the Employee Benefit Research Institute on savings needed to cover health insurance premiums and health care expenses in retirement. Much like EBRI's 2012 report, this analysis finds that the savings targets for a 65-year-old retiring in 2013 were not...

We examine the relationship between income and healthcare expenditures (HCE) in the short-run and long-run using Canadian provincial data spanning a period of 36 years from 1981-2016. We study the non-stationary and cointegration properties of HCE and GDP and estimate the short-run and long-run...

Health economics informs decision-making by healthcare regulators and government bodies but has historically paid insufficient attention to mental health. Economic evaluations must decide which benefits and costs are relevant and how to value them, and this Health Policy article considers...

Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. We evaluate the impact of RSBY on RSBY beneficiary households' (average treatment impact on the treated)...