Authors
Paul B. Ginsburg
Director - USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy recently submitted comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on a new bipartisan discussion draft to address health care costs. Last winter, the committee requested recommendations from Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on policies to reduce health care costs, from which this discussion draft incorporates a few suggestions.
The experts’ comments addressed three aspects of the discussion draft that have particular potential: proposals to address surprise billing, reforms to prevent anti-competitive behavior in health care markets, and a proposal to create a nationwide health care cost transparency organization. They also indicate other areas for reform not mentioned in the draft, including expanding the use of site-neutral payments in Medicare, reforming the catastrophic phase of the Medicare Part D drug benefit, reforming the tax treatment of employer-sponsored health benefits, and expanding the resources available for anti-trust enforcement. Read the full letter here.
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