Tradeoffs research reporter Soleil Shah shares what he’s learning as a new medical resident about the value and limitations of health policy research.
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What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
During his 14 months as White House COVID Coordinator, Ashish Jha learned about building consensus, crafting practical policy and how to deal with imperfect data.
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1.5 Million People Are Losing Medicaid. How Worried Should We Be?
We go behind the numbers of the first few months of the Medicaid unwinding.
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Putting a Price Tag on Patients’ Social Needs
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine calculates the cost of fully meeting the social needs of primary care patients – and finds the current system falls short.
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Can Immigration Help Solve the Nursing Home Staffing Crisis?
A recent NBER working paper looks at the effects of immigration into the U.S. on the staffing and quality of nursing homes.
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Nursing Home Visits, Abortion and Intimate Partner Violence: More from ASHEcon
Soleil recaps two more fascinating studies from the 2023 ASHEcon conference.
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What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy
We get a sneak peek at some of the most exciting papers coming out of a major health economics conference.
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Should Remote Opioid Addiction Treatment Stay in the Mix?
Two recent studies show the impact of an ongoing, COVID-era rule that let doctors treat opioid addiction entirely remotely.
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What the PHE Taught Us About Sick Leave, Telemedicine and Public Health Powers
A trio of studies help mark the end of the PHE, and recap some of the health policy lessons learned from this unprecedented period.
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What we’ve learned from federal efforts to fight HIV/AIDS
A recent NBER working paper compares the impact of public health funding for HIV/AIDS to other federal programs.