Health care | Remapping Debate

Unmasking MAHA

Out-of-network coverage in New York? We left it up to the insurers

In most of New York State, it doesn’t matter what “metal level” you pick: you can’t get an individual or family health insurance plan on the state’s exchange that provides coverage for out-of-network physician care. How did the exchange come to be designed without a requirement of such coverage?

Health care Insurance

How white is Medicaid in Trump country?

Data Visualizations | By Mike Alberti

Medicaid cuts, which could result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage, may appear politically palatable to those who subscribe to deeply-held stereotypes about Medicaid recipients (and all recipients of state-administered “welfare” programs): they are mostly Black and generally live largely in urban centers. But look at what the data say.

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A problem that can be ignored no longer

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Concerned physician: "I have been amazed and frankly a bit outraged at the apathy that this chronic problem has engendered."

Health care Medicine

Another solution to drug shortages

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Talking to a brick wall

Ignoring a solution to chronic drug shortages

Original Reporting | By T.J. Lewan

Market-based solutions have failed to work. Yet having the government manufacture some of the drugs remains the option that no one considers. Why not?

Health care Medicine

Think twice before throwing doctors to the wind

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

Should nurse practitioners continue to supplant doctors in the provision of primary care, despite the substantial additional training that doctors receive?

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Equally free to sleep under the bridge

Commentary | By Craig Gurian

Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw, writing in The New York Times, wants you to believe that a worker's acceptance of a job for no more than minimum wage and a person's acceptance of a pre-ACA, bare bones insurance policy reflect voluntary arrangements. Even a moment's consideration shows there is nothing genuinely voluntary about either of these arrangements.

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Out-of-network coverage in New York? We left it up to the insurers

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

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