Milbank Memorial Fund

America’s long-term care policy approach is poverty-based, requiring most older adults to spend down their assets to qualify for limited, Medicaid-funded support, which is biased toward institutional care and plagued by bureaucratic complexity and enrollment hurdles. More

Telehealth can improve access to medical and mental health care for rural and under-resourced communities. More

Over the past three decades, mortality from leading causes such as cardiovascular disease and cancer has declined in the United States, but the burden of chronic, disabling conditions, including musculoskeletal disorders, mental and substance use disorders, and obesity, has grown or stagnated, widening the gap between total years lived and years lived in good health. More

In this perspective, we have reviewed the historical evidence on the association between education and health in the United States, arguing that attention to public policies related to both education and technology are fundamentally important in understanding historical changes in the educational divide in life expectancy. More

Context: Public health is inherently political, yet it has struggled in recent decades to influence the societal decisions that shape population… More

In 2018, proposed changes to the public charge rule—amid intensified anti-immigrant rhetoric and heterogeneous local immigration enforcement—were widely publicized. More