The ACA and Drug Cost Nonadherence
Many people with both private and government health coverage still find themselves struggling to pay for the medicine they need.
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New Challenges for Insuring Kids in Working Families
A recent study from PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia demonstrates some surprising shifts in the way that working families keep their kids insured.
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Eating Disorder Treatment: Even When it Works, It’s Hard to Access or Afford
Eating disorders, hard to understand and even harder to treat, are often excluded from insurance coverage.
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Complete Streets for Safety and Health
“Complete Streets” is a transportation policy and design approach that that keeps all road users in minds, not just automobiles.
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Yoga and Popular Media: Helping or Hurting?
As yoga’s presence in popular media continues to increase, how do media portrayals serve to facilitate or prevent access to the practice?
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What’s In the CBO Report?
On January 17, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published an important report about the likely impact of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To be clear, this report was not an analysis of any particular plan put forward by Republicans in the 115th Congress. There is not yet an ACA repeal or replacement bill to
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The Importance of Medicaid DSH Payments
Steven Heath on why Medicaid DSH provider payments are an important public policy issue as we move through “repeal and replace.”
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$1 a Day to SNAP Hunger
SNAP provides a critical supplement to the food resources of 45 million Americans. A recent study demonstrates the positive impacts of an increase of just $1 per day in SNAP benefits.
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Football, Concussions and Kids: How Young is too Young for Contact?
The consequences of repeated head trauma may be most severe for younger people with their still-developing brains.
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The American Child Care Crisis
The child care crisis impacts many families, but poor families face the most significant barriers to high quality child care, putting their children at risk for the detrimental effects of low quality care and missing out on the beneficial effects of high quality care.
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