Bipartisan Approaches to Tackling Health Care Costs at the State Level

Health care costs are one of the most pressing policy issues of our time and are perhaps even more important in the coronavirus era, when state and many family budgets are deeply stretched. Yet conversations about health care costs are often unproductive, as people talk past one another and use the same words to mean different things. For instance, some use “costs” to mean costs borne by individuals, such as premiums and deductibles, whereas others use “costs” to represent costs to providers, insurers, hospitals, or the government. Developing a  shared understanding of what we mean when we talk about health care costs—and which issues need to be solve —are the critical next steps toward developing consensus on solutions.

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