Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and
ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as …

Background Health insurance literacy is crucial for navigating the US healthcare system.
Low health insurance literacy may be especially concerning for adolescent and young adult …

Previous research has shown that individuals do not always make rational decisions when
selecting their health insurance, for example, due to the existence of information frictions or …

Behavioral policy to improve health and health care often relies on interventions, such as
nudges, which target individual behaviors. But the most promising applications of behavioral …

Assisters provide in-person and phone-based support to help consumers narrow their plan
options on the Affordable Care Act's health insurance Marketplaces. We elicited the …

How the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care The definition of
medical necessity has morphed over the years, from a singular physician's determination to …

The physician-patient relationship is the most fundamental unit of medicine itself-and yet
currently faces great peril, increasingly encroached upon by a number of different threats …