More Evidence That Community Health Centers Are Cost-effective
Study emulating randomized experiment design adds to body of knowledge documenting lower costs of using community health centers.
Policies that Help Medicaid Beneficiaries to Quit Smoking
At a time when American adults living below the poverty line are over 50 percent more likely to smoke than other citizens, health care services provided through Medicaid may make a real difference. A new paper by researchers from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) analyzed state Medicaid coverage policies to see which ones were most effective.
May You Live in Interesting Times: The Challenges of Health Policy Analysis in a Turbulent Period
A purported Chinese curse -- “May you live in interesting times” -- seems apt for this current chaotic period of American public policy. (It appears that the quote does not actually have Chinese origins and was simply coined by an English politician in the 1930s to sound sagacious.) As a student (and teacher) of health policy, there is no question that the past year, during which Congress and President Trump tried repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), had high political drama, with fingernail-biting day by day acti
Better Care Reconciliation Act Could Cause Loss of Nearly 1.5 Million Jobs by 2026
Almost Every State Will See Fewer Jobs and Weaker Economies
The American Health Care Act Could Cause Loss of Nearly A Million Jobs by 2026; New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan to Lose Most
“Within a decade, almost a million fewer people would have jobs."