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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Opinion
December 2024 Sara Rosenbaum,
Medicaid’s size tells you everything you need to know about its prospects during a second Trump administration, the amount of energy that opponents… More
December 2024 John E. McDonough,
In the week between November 5 and November 12, at least 20 times I was asked whether President-elect Donald Trump would ever nominate Robert F.… More
Quarterly Article
November 2024 Heidi L. Allen, Mandi Spishak-Thomas, Kristen Underhill, Chen Liu, Jamie R. Daw,
The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care results in significant and persistent financial hardship, particularly for families with lower income with commercial insurance. More
July 2024 Pierre-Henri Bréchat, Angela Fagerlin, Anthony Ariotti, Alexis Pearl Lee, Smitha Warrier, Nancy Gregovich, Pascal Briot, Rajendu Srivastava,
The Quadruple Aim includes improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing per capita costs of care, and improving the work life of the care providers. We propose expanding a recently defined Fifth Aim of health equity to include health democracy, ensuring that that the health and health care wants, needs, and responsibilities of populations are being met, and also propose adding a Sixth Aim of preserving and improving the health of the environment to create the best health possible. More
May 2024 Elif Alyanak, Sara Rosenbaum,
Six decades after its creation, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices carries vastly expanded responsibilities, and its recommendations carry substantially greater impact. More
February 2024 Sara Rosenbaum,
By February 1, 2024, more than 16 million Americans had lost Medicaid as a result of the unwinding of the special Medicaid continuous enrollment… More
February 2024 Gail R. Wilensky,
Five years ago, I wrote a column titled, “The Surprising Resiliency of the Affordable Care Act,” noting that despite the hostility of the Trump… More
July 2023 Katelyn Girtain, Sural Shah, Ana C. Monterrey, J. Raul Gutierrez, Mark Kuczewski, Julie M. Linton,
The United States is home to 44.9 million immigrants who contribute unique assets, economic stability, and rich lived experiences to communities… More
January 2023 Adrianna McIntyre, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Mary G. Findling, Eric C. Schneider,
In an increasingly polarized era, one health reform policy stands out for its apparent popularity among both Democrats and Republicans: a public health insurance plan intended to compete alongside private health insurance products (the so-called “public option”). More
August 2022 John E. McDonough,
The newly signed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) can be seen as an exercise in continuous policy improvement involving two key parts of federal health law: Medicare and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). More