Atheendar Venkataramani writes about new research showing how Medicaid coverage can help someone who hasn’t even been born yet.
Health Economics
Babies, Boats & Abstracts: An Insider’s Guide to Health Policy Conferences
Health economist Kosali Simon shares conference tips, stories and abstracts she’s excited for at AcademyHealth and ASHEcon.
Drilling Into a Dentist’s COVID Roller Coaster Ride
From the fear of shutting down to the exhaustion of reopening and the missed appointments in between.
Raising the Minimum Wage Saved Lives
Atheendar Venkataramani on a study showing that state increases in minimum wage and earned income tax credits led to fewer suicides.
How Will Biden’s Fix for Child Poverty Affect Kids’ Health?
The American Rescue Plan includes monthly payments that could protect millions of kids from poverty — and the health risks that come with it.
Fixing Health Care’s ‘Leaky Pipes’ Could Save the U.S. $340 Billion
The U.S. health care system has a lot of problems. Fixing even a few small ones could add up to big savings.
Exploring Inequities in Telemedicine
Rachel Werner on new research looking at which patients have struggled to take advantage of telehealth during the pandemic.
Losing a Hospital
How one rural Kansas town dealt with losing its only hospital and what lessons it has for the rest of the country.
Biden and COVID-19
We ask the experts about Biden’s plans to increase COVID-19 testing, shore up PPE and supply chains, and institute a national mask mandate.
Trump and COVID-19
What do experts think of President Trump’s COVID-19 response? And what do they think a second Trump term could look like for health policy?
