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Has Obamacare found its Bull Connor?
Health care reform in the United States—“Obamacare”—continues to face a bumpy road, according to health policy expert John McDonough of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Writing in his Boston Globe blog “Health Stew” on September 1, 2013,…
The uninsured and Medicaid
August 2013 -- HSPH Professor Katherine Baicker discusses the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a unique study that evaluates the impact of covering the uninsured with Medicaid. (Conversations on Public Health podcast series, 5:25) Please click the play icon…
Stuck between health and immigration reform
Perspective article by HSPH's Benjamin Sommers, New England Journal of Medicine, August 15, 2013
Fearful doctors may order too many tests
Coverage in the Reuters, August 14, 2013, of study by HSPH’s Michelle Mello and colleagues
Medicaid expansion faces challenges as January 1 deadline looms
July 24, 2013 — With just months remaining before the January 1, 2014 rollout of changes to the Medicaid program that will expand health care coverage to as many as 10-20 million Americans, substantial implementation challenges remain —…
Global health lessons from U.S. health care reform
Julio Frenk, Dean of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and T & G Angelopoulos professor of public health and international development, recently spoke with the website MedPage Today for its “Conversations with …” video interview series. Dean…
Supreme Court gene-patenting decision represents balancing act
A June 2013 Supreme Court ruling that human genes cannot be patented upholds the notion that “our common humanity cannot be owned” but also preserves incentives important for biomedical innovation, according to an article by Harvard School of…
Fatalities due to medical errors likely underreported
Although a groundbreaking 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report suggested that between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errors, recent studies suggest that the real number is likely much higher, according to…
Why Public Health? Tzipi Strauss
June 2013 -- In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Tzipi Strauss, MD, SM ’13, Health Care Management, is…
Two takes on the Oregon Medicaid study
In a study dubbed the “Oregon Health Insurance Experiment,” researchers compared clinical outcomes among two groups of adults in Oregon—half who were on Medicaid and half who weren’t. The newest findings from the study, published online May 2,…