| Can Hospital Rate Setting Help Control US Health Spending | https://www.urban.org/research/publication/can-hospital-rate-setting-help-control-us-health-spending | https://chir.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2-billing-banknote-GettyImages-2167530020.jpg | August 2026 | John Holahan and Michael Simpson | This cost and coverage analysis estimates the implications of price limits placed on hospital care provided to people with employer-based and private non-group insurance. |
| Skimming: How Complexity Raises Health Care Costs, and What Government Can Do About it | https://tcf.org/content/report/skimming-how-complexity-raises-healthcare-costs-and-what-government-can-do-about-it/ | https://chir.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2-money-maze-GettyImages-2062671741.jpg | June 2026 | Jeanne Lambrew and Joshua Varcie | This report gives examples of how the complexity of the US health care system lets consolidated corporations exploit loopholes and skim profits, and proposes solutions. |
| Health Care Financialization | https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/jhclp/vol29/iss1/2/ | https://chir.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2-money-background-GettyImages-1263764421.jpg | January 2026 | Erin C. Fuse Brown and Hayden Rooke-Ley | Financialization manifests in three ways: governance moves from clinicians and community stakeholders to financial actors; profits derive from financial engineering and labor suppression rather than value creation; and accountability is obscured through consolidation, delocalization, and intricate corporate structures. |
