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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Green Spaces and Better Health
The plants outside your home might doing much more than just beautifying your neighborhood. They could also be helping you live longer. That’s the conclusion supported by a new study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan school of Public Health.
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Suicide: The Least Talked About Form of Gun Death
Suicide is the 10th most common cause of death among Americans, and, in 2013, guns were used for more than half of those deaths. Advocates for gun safety must continue to raise this uncomfortable subject.
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What’s Next for Medicaid?
Brad Wright discusses four possibilities for the future of Medicaid under the Trump administration.
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Lessons from the Tea Party
Supporters of the ACA should look to an uncomfortable place for ideas on how proceed over the next few years: the Tea Party. Here are 7 lessons from my 200+ interviews with policymakers and Tea Party activists.
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