Posted by CHPRE Staff
Center Activities, Hot Topics, Issue Briefs
Friday, September 19th, 2014
September 19, 2014. In this second Issue Brief of the new CHPRE series, Len Nichols, Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, explains an essential but sometimes overlooked history of the Any Willing Provider and Freedom of Choice Laws and then reviews the arguments and evidence for and against them. In the end, Nichols offers conclusions for both sides to consider as the policy debate moves forward, or backward, or in circles, as the case may be.
Posted by CHPRE Staff
Health Reform, Hot Topics, Hot Topics, Newsroom
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
How Much Is Obamacare Raising Your Insurance
Rate? Depends on Which State You Live In.
“I put the most credence in what insurers do, not what they say,” said Nichols. “I see United [Healthcare] and others entering exchanges they avoided in 2014. This is a collective judgment that these markets are working, contradicting the cassandras once again. Rather loudly, actually. Actions don’t lie, or spin.”
Read the article here.
Posted by CHPRE Staff
Hot Topics, Hot Topics, Issue Briefs, Policy Debates
Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
In this first Issue Brief of the new CHPRE series, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, Dave Kendall of Third Way and Len Nichols of CHPRE explain why and how policy makers can create incentives for states to engage private and federal stakeholders in health care cost containment activities that need to be jumpstarted, but likely will not without state engagement.
