In the Washington Monthly, Phil Longman explores how to solve the cost crisis simply by making Medicare prices universal.
Read MorePhil Longman published an article in Democracy Journal about the need for antitrust enforcement to curb consolidation in the healthcare sector.
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Read MorePhil Longman reports in the Washington Monthly about how the real healthcare crisis involves monopolies.
Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
Read MoreCompared to the discourse in the other party’s nomination process, the debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over health-care reform may have seemed thoughtful and on point.
Read MoreRegional inequality is out of control. Here’s how to reverse it.
Read MoreBuried in Steven Brill’s convoluted tome are important truths about how to reform our health care delivery system.
Read MoreA frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
Read MorePhillip Longman, the senior editor of the Washington Monthly and the policy director of the Open Markets Institute, published this piece in the Washington Monthly.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View here, a selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.
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