The New Health Dialogue

Senior Research Fellow Micah Weinberg recently delivered a talk about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on medical innovation and health care cost containment at the University of Southern California’s new Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.  He explained that it was much more important for industries engaged in medical innovation to look forward to the next ten years -- in which cost containment will continue to be a major issue -- rather than to focus on the provisions of the ACA that left them largely unscathed.  Attempting to water down the current attempts at controlling costs and improving medical system efficiency, he argued, will only lead to more difficult cost containment decisions in the future.