Health Care Affordability

Throughout the country, rising health care costs are constraining employer profits, decreasing employee wages, and crowding out other state spending… 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

Invited testimony by Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher Koller at the US Senate Budget Hearing on How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency. More

Even after accounting for rebates, prescription drug spending has continued to grow at an unaffordable rate, according to a new analysis of three states with health care cost growth targets, More

The Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs had developed a suite of analytic resources on health care cost and affordability data to provide states with direction on how to access, integrate, and analyze health care data resources. More

3 Takeaways:   Point out that health care costs are not only high, but also inflated and widely variable. Highlight where… More

Concerns about the affordability of health care have been increasing over time and will be exacerbated in the short run by high rates of inflation… More