California’s Persistent Poverty Crisis: 2024 Rates Remain Alarmingly High
key takeaway California’s poverty rate remains among the highest in the nation (17.7%), with children, people of color,…
Even health care, the strongest sector of the U.S. jobs market, cannot deliver the wages its workers deserve without unionization
The growth of jobs in the U.S. health care industry is the linchpin to a strong U.S. labor…
Trump Cracks Down on Drug Ads
Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on drug companies to be more transparent about the risks associated with…
Single-payer Systems Rely on Reductive Criteria for Care Decisions
In a new Reality Check-Up insight, Director of Health Care Policy Michael Baker explains that health technology assessments…
If the Government Shuts Down, Obamacare Will Be Why
(Composite / Photos: Shutterstock) ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN could be weeks away. And it looks like a central issue—maybe…
STS program hosts health care and civil liberties lecture
Even with federal health care policies in flux under President Donald Trump’s administration, the Affordable Care Act’s accessible…
Grothman Opens Hearing on Making American Children Healthy Again
WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing titled…
Rural health care clinics in Mass. brace for Medicaid cuts
Hundreds of thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents could lose Medicaid coverage over the next 10 years — a…
Single-payer Systems Rely on Reductive Criteria for Care Decisions
Executive Summary Health technology assessments (HTAs) are evaluations used by health care payers to determine the value of…
3 things to know about RFK Jr.’s MAHA report on children’s health
The Trump administration released its latest report Tuesday on how to “Make America Healthy Again,” the second installment…
The Role of International Collaboration
The medicines that Americans rely on every day are often products of complex global supply chains, which offer…
Tax Credits Support Affordable Marketplace Plans
Millions of Americans, including many ages adults 50–64, depend on private health insurance from the nongroup (individual) market,…