Recently, in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed whether health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — ...

Providence’s WE ACT scorecard helps employees in its 51 hospitals see how their actions affect greenhouse gas emissions, ...

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...

Professor, Political Science, Director, Mansfield Center’s Ethics and Public Affairs Program, University of Montana Robert P. Saldin, Ph.D., is a professor of political science and director of the ...

Tanya Alteras, M.P.P., is a senior consultant at Health Management Associates. Formerly a senior policy analyst at ESRI, she has over six years of experience examining issues related to health care ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...

While the federal government and the states jointly fund Medicaid, each state runs its own program, subject to federal requirements. The federal government covers between 50 percent and 77 percent of ...

Provisional data show that drug overdoses in the United States claimed more than 100,000 lives for a third consecutive year in 2023 — a more than 50 percent jump since 2019. By a substantial margin, ...

Kata M. Kertesz, J.D., is managing policy attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy. She engages in public policy issues surrounding Medicare, those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, oral ...

In the United States, approximately 5.5 percent of the population, or more than one of 20 individuals, experiences serious mental illness (SMI). SMI can be defined as a mental illness that “interferes ...

Joshua Seidman, Ph.D., is chief research and knowledge officer at Fountain House. He joined the organization in 2021. Seidman has spent 35 years working at the intersection of research, policy, and ...