Healthcare Innovation July 19, 2024
Inflation and healthcare affordability are the top issues for 2024 presidential candidates to address, concludes USofCare.
Last month, the Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis-based non-profit United States of Care (USofCare) released its state legislative wrap-up report for 2024. USofCare’s analysis of the 2024 legislative sessions revealed three trends meant to address the healthcare affordability crisis: advanced policies that promote hospital accountability, protecting and expanding access to health coverage, and opportunities to innovate and improve healthcare affordability.
The report stated that legislators view growing hospital prices as the main driver of the affordability crisis. “State legislatures pursued bipartisan solutions to increase hospital accountability by limiting the ability of health systems and hospitals to consolidate, protecting people from the negative impacts of already...