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Leveraging Rapid Antigen Tests in School-Aged Children
To keep schools safe, students enrolled at LAUSD schools were required to show a negative COVID-19 test in the two weeks prior to the first day. Is this a good use of scarce resources?
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After Their Initial Diagnosis, Many Adult COVID-19 Patients Continue Seeking Medical Care for up to Six Months or More
Analyzing claims data, does COVID-19 related healthcare utilization persist in for 180 days or more, also known as long COVID, after their initial diagnosis?
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A Framework for Categorizing and Analyzing Prescription Drug Pricing Reform Options
Schaeffer Initiative experts present a framework for categorizing and analyzing a wide range of proposed policy reforms for prescription drug pricing.
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Government Regulated or Negotiated Drug Prices: Key Design Considerations
Americans pay much higher prices for brand drugs than do people who live in other industrialized nations. Most Americans—79 percent—consider U.S. prescription drug prices to be unreasonable, with almost 3 in 10 reporting they go without prescribed medications because of cost. With 70 percent of Americans reporting that lowering drug costs is their highest healthcare priority, the Congress and the Biden Administration are considering how to lower US drug prices
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ADDITIONAL Perspectives
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It is Time for the U.S. to Create a National COVID-19 Vaccination Registry
Schaeffer Center expert Jakub Hlávka writes that the U.S. is hurting itself by not having a single vaccination registry, which would enable faster reopening of key sectors of the economy as well as of international travel.
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Setting the Stage for the Next 10 Years of Health Care Payment Innovation
Nonresident Senior Fellow Bob Kocher describes four health policy strategies that could unlock large improvements in healthcare cost and quantity.
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Comments On a CMS Proposal to Allow Year-Round Marketplace Enrollment for Low-Income People
Schaeffer Initiative expert Matthew Fiedler provided comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on proposed rule that would permit people with incomes below 150% of the federal poverty level (FPL) to enroll in coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act at any time during the year, rather than solely during the annual open enrollment period.
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Comments on the Development of a Public Health Insurance Option
Schaeffer Initiative experts Matthew Fiedler and Loren Adler provided comments in response to a request for information on the design of a public health insurance option from the chairs of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
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More Employers Should Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers — for the Health of their Business
If employers will want to operate reliable in-person workplaces and attract customers, they will have to embrace a solution that the government has so far shied away from: vaccine mandates.
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Mandatory Masking of School Children is a Bad Idea
The benefits of masks in preventing serious illness or death from COVID-19 among children are small. Meanwhile, they are disruptive to learning and communicating in classrooms.
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