OPEN HEALTH POLICY

Market-based healthcare policy solutions. Click to read Open Health Policy, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers... Welcome to Open Health Policy, where healthcare scholars from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University share their opinions, research, and policy prescriptions on healthcare in the US. We have varied research interests, but we are particularly focused on the effectiveness and solvency of public insurance programs like Medicaid and Medicare, public health policies and politics, healthcare markets and healthcare financing. These topics will feature prominently in our writings, but we will address other issues when necessary... Healthcare in the US is a Hydra-like monster - expensive, confusing, and captured by interest groups. And yet, the outcomes are average at best. To many, the key to slaying the monster is a "single payer" system. We disagree; it is governments, and those who have captured them, who control healthcare in the US. We never seem to run..