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 ...

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 ...

Lawsuits are stalling the implementation of a Biden administration rule aimed at curbing insurance agents’ and brokers’ ability to inappropriately steer beneficiaries into private Medicare plans. For ...

Ali Bers, J.D., is litigation director at the Center for Medicare Advocacy. She represents older adults and people with disabilities in federal litigation aimed at making systemic improvements to ...

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, ...

Rachel Hand, L.M.S.W., M.P.H., is associate director of research for the research, analytics, knowledge, and evaluation (RAKE) team at Fountain House and a licensed social worker. She joined the ...