The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Ten ways to accelerate research on the role that the seismic shifts in states’ policy contexts may have played in the troubling trends and growing disparities in Americans’ health.  More

In my last Opinion piece, I discussed the theory that many diseases typical of our advanced years are actually different manifestations of a single…  More

The Supreme Court’s June 29, 2023, ruling that affirmative action in the admissions processes at Harvard College and the University of North…  More

Learn about measures that can help address challenges that prevent people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from getting needed mental health care.  More

ar from keeping courts away from social controversy as promised, the Dobbs decision – and the individual state power to dictate circumstances under which patients can access myriad types of reproductive health care it unleashed – pose implications that remain unpredictable, inequitable, and heart-wrenching for patients and providers alike.  More

Since 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been monitoring Americans’ bodies for the presence of 212 chemicals, detailing…  More

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

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

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a seminal report titled To Err is Human, which determined that tens of thousands of patient deaths…  More

The imbalance in US health spending between public health and medical care is no secret. For example, of the more than $3.8 trillion in US health…  More