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The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has already overwhelmed the health systems of several countries and is projected to overburden the health system in the United States. A surge in patients with the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) would challenge …
A study in the June 2015 issue of Health Affairs comparing wages of health sector employees to those of similarly qualified workers in other sectors found that although healthcare workers are paid only slightly more on average than their counterparts …
Recently released economic data suggest that, after a period of historically low health care spending growth, growth rates have started to increase.
The latest figures from the Quarterly Services Survey (QSS), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, estimate that health …
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today a new strategy to transform the health delivery system, with a stated emphasis on quality and cost reduction.
The most significant change to come with the Secretary’s announcement will be …
In this blog post, we take a look at how utilization and price of healthcare in the United States compare to similarly wealthy and sizable OECD countries. The analysis uses 2013 health utilization data from the OECD Health Statistics database, …
The federal government devotes significant resources toward the education and training of physicians, primarily through the Medicare program. Graduate medical education (GME) programs currently receive guaranteed federal financing totaling over $15 billion each year, which is used to finance the …