Month: May 2023

Boosting Medicare Advantage can improve health care quality and costs

healthcare, News, Opinion

Ongoing concerns about rising health care costs and the looming fiscal insolvency of the Medicare program put increasing pressure on policymakers to rein in health care spending and preserve Medicare for future generations. One policy change could help maintain the program and move the health care system, as well as the way we pay for medical services, in a more sustainable direction. And, unlike most health care reforms, this one is remarkably simple.

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Will millennials stay quiet in 2024?

News, Opinion

The start of campaign season will bring potentially heated and awkward political conversations between average Americans and their coworkers, family and acquaintances. While voters and pundits alike will use their anecdotal experience in these interactions to claim to know which way the country is headed, new polling data suggests that might not be the best evidence.

According to a recent poll from State Policy Network (where I am a fellow), three out of five voters keep their...

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Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

News, Opinion

Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority. So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met. 

We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.4 percent — one of the lowest on record and far below the nearly 15 percent rate at the outset of the pandemic. But the labor force participation rate (the s...

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Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

News, Opinion

Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority. So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met. 

We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.4 percent — one of the lowest on record and far below the nearly 15 percent rate at the outset of the pandemic. But the labor force participation rate (the s...

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Marianne Williamson loses two key campaign officials

News

Two key officials have left progressive presidential candidate Marianne Williamson's campaign, according to a new report.

Jason Call, who served as Williamson’s deputy campaign manager, and Peter Daou, the prior campaign manager, have both left her operation, Politico first reported on Monday.

Shortly after the news broke, Williamson’s press secretary Duran Brown released a statement about Daou, which Daou confirmed to The Hill. 

“Peter Daou joined t...

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[Correspondence] Europe has much to do to improve the quality of and access to safe pain management

News
We have read with interest the debate surrounding opioid use in the USA and related deaths. We also welcomed the different perspectives of Gerard A Kalkman and colleagues,1 concluding that universal health care and addiction care in Europe contributes greatly to preventing an opioid epidemic of US proportions. If we agree with many points, we respectfully disagree that this prevention is homogeneously helping to prevent such a crisis development. The authors mentioned only the opioid crisis i...

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What a default could mean for Medicaid and other federal benefits

health care, medicaid, News

With the White House and House leadership less than two weeks away from a default deadline on the country’s debt, anxiety is rising over the potential impact on federal programs such as Medicaid and the beneficiaries who depend on it.

Among the sticking points is Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) push for work requirements to be added to federal assistance programs such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

McCarthy told reporters before a ...

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Pelosi honored by pro-abortion rights PAC: ‘She’s a game-changer’

News

The brightest of D.C.'s Democratic Party establishment came out on Tuesday night to honor Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the 2023 We Are EMILY National Gala, applauding her tenure as Speaker and galvanizing support for abortion as a key issue in the upcoming elections.

EMILY's List, the abortion rights political action committee aimed at getting Democratic female candidates into office, honored Pelosi on Tuesday in recognition of the progressive legislation that passed Congress...

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