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Health Care Payment and Financing

Hospital Mergers Don’t Make Care Better—They Just Make It Pricier, LDI Fellows Say

A New Review Finds Hospital Mergers Raise Prices Without Improving Care, and Urges Regulators to Stop Accepting Quality Claims to Justify Consolidations

By:
  • Karl Stark
November 26, 2025

News

Penn LDI Raises $5.5 Million in Landmark Davis Family Gift Initiative

Includes $1 Million in Donations to Meet a Matching Challenge

By:
  • Hoag Levins
November 5, 2025

News

Health Care Payment and Financing

A New Mark Pauly Book About What Health Care Managers Don’t Know

The Wharton Professor Produces a Compendium of Economics Wisdom for Health Care Pros

By:
  • Hoag Levins
October 27, 2025

In The Media Newsweek

Ron DeSantis Suggests Change To Health Care For Under 50s

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
October 21, 2025

In Their Own Words

NIH on the Brink: How to Fund Medical Breakthroughs in the Trump–Kennedy Era

With Drastic Cuts on the Table, What’s the Best Way To Fund Medical Innovation – NIH Grants, Prizes, or Bold New Models?

By:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
October 9, 2025
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In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

Why Work Requirements Won’t Work for Medicaid

They Reduce Coverage, Not Costs, History Shows. Smarter Incentives Would Encourage the Private Sector 

By:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
October 1, 2025

In The Media Newsweek

Health Coverage Expanding For Americans From November 1

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
September 5, 2025

In The Media Newsweek

Bankruptcies Are Hitting America’s Health Care Giants

Interview

Featured Fellows:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
  • Lawton Robert Burns, PhD, MBA
August 26, 2025

In The Media Newsweek

Map Shows 6 States Testing New Medicare Model In 2026

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
August 25, 2025

In The Media Newsweek

How Health Insurance Rates Could Rise in Florida in 2026

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
August 15, 2025

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Medicare’s New Drug Spending Cap Will Likely Help Few Seniors

Many With High Drug Costs Have Supplemental Coverage and Won’t Reach the $2,000 Out-of-Pocket Cap, a New LDI Study Finds

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
May 20, 2025

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

Federal Medicaid Spending Cuts: The Wrong Ways and the Right Ways

As Congress Considers Cuts to Medicaid Spending, Policymakers Should Better Account for States' Ability to Pay

By:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
March 28, 2025

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