Aug 25, 2022
Michael Chernew of Harvard Medical School discusses the problems with taking a purist stance on government-sponsored or free market solutions to healthcare, how recent innovations that address healthcare consumption could help contain costs, and why there's no silver bullet that will solve the problem of access to affordable care in its entirety.
Michael's study on the impact a payment reform known as AQC had on healthcare costs in Massachusetts can be found here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1813621
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