Experts in the News

“Full price transparency would aid both patients and payers in choosing the most cost-effective providers, but we're not having that yet,” said health policy scholar Marah Short. A study coauthored by Short, health economics fellow Vivian Ho, et al., found that many highly respected U.S. hospitals are not in compliance with new price transparency legislation, and there are some dramatic differences in prices among those that are reporting them publicly.

 

 

“A lot of people are saying that gun restriction laws don’t work, but ... we should be pouring money into research that should guide policy instead of being reactive,” said Rola El-Serag, said director of the Center for Health and Biosciences.

“Voters take high gas prices out on the president and his party, [but] what Americans pay is based on trade and investment decisions by thousands of players all over the world," observed energy fellow Jim Krane.

Energy scholar Jim Blackburn commented on a report that ranchers are cashing in on sustainable land practices using BCarbon, which measures carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil — a standard originating with research by the Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies

A Saudi delegation to the UAE last week may have been designed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a careful balance of figures from different branches of the Al Saud family. This was perhaps meant to "demonstrate a show of unity within the Al Saud family that has been under strain,” said Middle East fellow Kristian Coates Ulrichsen.