Joshua Gottlieb

Sep 30, 2024 | econofact.org | Mark Shepard |Ian Berlin |William G. Gale |Joshua Gottlieb

Public Health Public Health · Harvard Kennedy School Universal access to affordable health insurance is a longstanding U.S. policy goal and was central to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”), one of the largest social reforms of the 21st century. In the decade since it took effect in 2014, the share of Americans without health insurance has fallen sharply and now stands near an all-time low.

Mar 4, 2024 | briefingbook.info | Joshua Gottlieb

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a plan to change data access protocols and fees for researchers using Medicare claims data, reportedly due to data security concerns. In practice, the changes announced would make data access more expensive and eliminate institutional investments in data infrastructure made under the current access regime. This would reduce the volume and quality of healthcare research, which would limit information available for policymakers.

Dec 17, 2023 | econofact.org | Craig Garthwaite |Amanda Starc |Galina Hale |Joshua Gottlieb

These two provisions of the IRA should provide meaningful steps to address high and rising prices of prescription drugs, but do so in quite a blunt way that could negatively affect incentives to invest in future drugs. It should be recognized that actions to reduce drug prices almost always involve a tradeoff between lower costs today against more limited access and reduced incentives to develop better drugs for the future.

Jul 14, 2023 | bfi.uchicago.edu | Joshua Gottlieb

Insights / Research Brief• Amy Finkelstein, Casey C. McQuillan, Owen M. Zidar, Eric Zwick The pervasiveness of employer-provided healthcare in the United States contributes to labor market inequality; under an alternative scenario where healthcare is funded by a payroll tax on firms, the college-wage premium would be 11% lower. If healthcare costs had grown at the rate of other countries, inequality would have grown less as well. Topics:  Employment & Wages, Health care