Paul Howard
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The Graham-Cassidy Obamacare overhaul is dead. But it'll be back.
Focusing on competition won't solve every disagreement, but it will move the debate in the right direction. → Read More
Tinker, Scrap, or Start Over: Let States Decide How to Fix Health Care
With Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act at an impasse, the Senate HELP Committee, led by Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.), has held two weeks of bipartisan hearings on how to help states stabilize the individual market... → Read More
Tinker, scrap, or start over: Let states decide how to fix health care
Innovation Waivers grant states the flexibility to pursue the solutions that work best for their residents. → Read More
How to Expand Healthcare Choice for Consumers
States are just beginning to seriously explore the potential of 1332 waivers. The limited engagement to date reflects both the highly partisan nature of the debate around the ACA and uncertainty about the future and scope of funding sources that currently flow through the ACA exchanges. Congress and the Trump Administration should address both issues simultaneously. → Read More
How Congress Should Clarify and Expand the ACA's State Innovation Waivers
States are just beginning to seriously explore the potential of 1332 waivers. → Read More
Making America's Health Care System Smarter — and Cheaper — with Digital Tech
Proteus Digital Health has developed ingestible sensor that tracks whether patients are taking their medication, and notifies their physicians of the drug's effectiveness. The FDA's approval this week of Novartis' novel cancer treatment is making a well-deserved splash as the first ever CAR-T... → Read More
How Federal Regulators Can Reform Obamacare Without Help From Congress
Like the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) or not, it’s impossible to deny that many exchanges—and consumers—are facing down a crisis. According to HHS, the number of participating insurers is down 38 percent this year. → Read More
How federal regulators can reform ObamaCare without help from Congress
OPINION | There are four measures the Department of Health and Human Services could take to reform ObamaCare on its own. → Read More
Gotham’s Bioterror Challenge
Tevi Troy joins the Manhattan Institute’s Paul Howard to discuss a dreaded scenario: a bioterror attack in New York City. Gotham’s status as a cultural and financial center makes it a more desirable target than any other city in the world. Of all the threats the city faces, a biological attack may be the most terrifying. Due to the city’s size, density, and transportation complexity, bioterror… → Read More
This Is How Congress Could Create a Bipartisan Health-Care Bill
We’re closer than you think to agreeing on health-care reform that works → Read More
Paul Howard with USA Today on Health Policy
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Testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
On June 13, the Manhattan Institute's Paul Howard testified at a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions entitled, "The Cost of Prescription Drugs: How the Drug Delivery System Affects What Patients Pay." ______________________ Drug Development and... → Read More
A Bright Spot on the Health-Care Horizon
Direct primary care (DPC) is bringing a high-touch, high-tech style of medicine to patients, at an affordable price. → Read More
CBO Score: An Opportunity for Republicans to Get Serious About Making State-Led Health Care Reform Work
Republicans have tasked themselves with fixing ObamaCare—repealing and replacing it with something better, that lowers premiums and offers greater choice, without pulling the rug out from under the millions of Americans who have gained coverage under the law. Reading Wednesday’s... → Read More
The Burgeoning "Yelpification" of Health Care: Foundations Help Consumers Hold a Scale and a Mirror to the Health Care System
From flashy tech start-ups in Silicon Valley to modernized insurers in New York, everyone wants to “disrupt” health care. In practice, this is immensely more challenging than it sounds. Electronic health records (EHRs), more than a decade ago, were expected to revolutionize how health... → Read More
Healthcare Reform: Mission Possible
We're going down to the wire again in the Senate on healthcare reform. The American Health Care Act finally passed the House, but CBO hasn't scored the latest version. If the loss in coverage is still as large as the last version — up to 24 million by 2026 — it will only reinforce the... → Read More
Healthcare reform: Mission possible
Competition could further both Republican and Democratic policy goals, and depoliticize our bitter healthcare debates. → Read More
Personalized Medicine Is Here
The FDA’s approval for 23andMe may be the first shot in a health revolution. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved 10 of the personal-genomics company 23andMe’s screening tests for genetic health risks, including one for Alzheimer’s and one for a rare blood disorder. The... → Read More
How Yelping Doctors Is Improving Americans' Health Care
Aggregating social media reviews—the wisdom of crowds—has turned into a powerful new tool for consumers, helping them to find trusted services quickly and efficiently. It’s also allowed new businesses to rapidly reach their intended market and tweak their services based on consumers’... → Read More
Yelp for Health: Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Find High-Quality Hospitals
Online tools like ZocDoc, HealthGrades, and Yelp have become popular among people who search for information about physicians and hospitals. Yelp, one of the most widely used platforms, allows patients to rate health-care providers through a five-star rating system that can include narrative text reviews. → Read More