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Blog Post
November 2024 Morgan McDonald,
A trip home to help with Appalachian mountain relief work in the wake of Hurricane Helene brought lessons on trust and community for Morgan McDonald, Milbank’s National Director of Population Health and Health Equity Leadership. More
September 2024 Charlie Conrad,
The Milbank Memorial Fund is committed to the leadership development, nonpartisanship, and the depolarization efforts needed to bring all parties to… More
December 2023 Morgan McDonald,
Morgan McDonald shares that “grace” is the defining element of this work for many state health leaders. More
October 2023 Morgan McDonald, Michael S. Sparer, Lawrence D. Brown,
While much has been written regarding what needs to be done to strengthen public health for future preparedness and public safety, little attention… More
News Article
December 2018
If durable policy remains the result of bipartisan efforts, what does the future of state health care reform look like? In a new NEJM Perspective… More
April 2018
Last year’s “repeal and replace” fight in Congress underscored how deep—and deeply confusing—disagreements over health care policy can… More
Publication
April 2018 David K. Jones,
Last year’s “repeal and replace” fight in Congress underscored how deep—and deeply confusing—disagreements over health care policy can be. Author David K. Jones traveled to Colorado and Kansas to find out what Republican and Democrat legislators were concerned about now when it comes to health reform. What does the bipartisan conversation look like in these states? More
August 2017 Christopher F. Koller,
With the Senate Affordable Care Act (ACA) “repeal and replace” effort collapsing into partisan rubble (how did you learn about the dramatic US… More
September 2015 Christopher F. Koller,
Bipartisanship in health policy is hard to find. Pick your topic—Medicaid expansion, Medicare reform, or health insurance exchanges—and voices are… More
