The Rural Health Transformation Program asks states to build market-style reforms in places where health care markets often do not exist.
Thom Walsh
Thom Walsh, PhD, MS, is a professor of the practice of health policy at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and a member of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board, the regulatory commission overseeing statewide hospital budgets, insurance rates, and health care reform efforts. The views expressed here are his own.
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Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums.
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The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts
We don’t call it Medicaid in many states, and we use euphemisms for what are in reality cuts. That endangers the system, a health care regulator writes.