Sustainable Health Care Costs

Policy Points States grappling with high and rising health care spending can draw inspiration from the Oregon State Employee Plan’s hospital… More

“If this is love I want my money back” – Hot Tuna  This sentiment may well capture the mood in US primary care today. The 2021 National… More

Rhode Island met its health care cost growth target in 2022, according to the 2024 health care spending and quality report released by the Office of the Health Insurance Commission (OHIC) at a public hearing earlier this month. More

In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Steward was sent packing and the community staved off the private equity beast. The result has been less than universally satisfying, but as states and communities struggle with health system consolidation, health care affordability, and difficult resource allocation decisions, this story of how the private equity wolves were thwarted may offer lessons.    More

Over the last few years, health care cost growth target states had to make difficult decisions about whether and how the dramatic increase in inflation should impact existing cost growth target values and/or the process and methodology for setting new cost growth target values.   More

A table showing state target values for 2024 and beyond, as available. More

Slower systemwide health care spending growth could allow employers to put more dollars into wages or invest it elsewhere. More