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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale submitted comments to the Senate Finance Committee's RFI on lowering drug prices, with recommendations on the Orphan Drug Act, biosimilar competition, insulin cost-sharing, copay coupons and the Medical Loss Ratio. Read our letter: tinyurl.com/3aw3yjs6

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

How many hospitals are in the US? Existing public data couldn't really answer that. So, the Lab built the dataset that can: manually verified and spanning 25 years. Elizabeth Zhang, a researcher at the Lab, explains the goal. markets.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/closures-exp...

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Yale Department of Economics @yaleeconomics.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Where are America's hospitals closing and opening? This new @yalehealthlab.bsky.social tool illustrates every hospital closure and opening over the past quarter century as well as changes to the number of beds per resident: www.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/commentary-p...

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The data powering our research on hospital markets is now a public tool anyone can use. Hospital mergers, closures, and openings over the last 25 years. National, state, and community level — no PhD required. markets.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/closures-exp...

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Health care consolidation is reshaping U.S. health care markets. Our two latest Just the Facts briefs offer a clear, concise synthesis of what the most rigorous evidence says about horizontal mergers + vertical integration.

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In today’s New York Times, Zack Cooper writes we can be grateful for the care hospitals provide AND push back on the consolidation driving costs out of reach: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

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Opinion | This Is the Biggest Culprit for High Health Care Spending

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Earlier today, our director Zack Cooper traveled to Austin, Texas to join the Texas House of Representatives for a conversation about rising health care costs. Read Professor Cooper's full testimony here: www.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/commentary-p...

Professor Cooper in front of the Texas capitol building in Austin, Texas.

“To sum up, if we want to address rising health insurance premiums, we’ve got to focus on addressing rising health care spending, and that means, chiefly, focusing on the pricing of hospital services.” - Zack Cooper, Director, Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The way the U.S. pays for health care is pushing up prices & exacerbating inequality. Put simply: Rising health care spending is killing the American Dream. The good news? We know how to reduce spending & provide families with relief. Our mission: www.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/commentary-p...

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Introducing The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale

The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale studies why health care in the U.S. costs so much—and what can be done to slow spending growth without harming quality.

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Since 2000, there have been > 1,300 mergers among the nation's approximately 5,000 hospitals. The FTC took enforcement action against just 13 of them. Use our interactive to see hospital consolidation across the country over the last two decades: markets.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/introduction

The Hospital Markets Explorer from the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale

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Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

👋We’re the Health Care Affordability Lab at @yale.edu — a new initiative that pairs rigorous academic scholarship with strategic policy engagement to curb rising health care spending at every level of government. Read more: www.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/commentary-p...

The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale produces new evidence to guide policymakers and lower health care costs for individuals and the health care system.

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