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Study shows state budgets not hurt by Medicaid expansion
The first national study evaluating the impact of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on state spending found that the expansion was fully funded by federal dollars, and states that expanded experienced no significant cutbacks in…
Patients stand to lose under proposed healthcare bill
Atul Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of Ariadne Labs, and a cancer surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said patients stand to lose significantly…
Electronic system lowers wait times for access to specialists
For immediate release: March 6, 2017 Boston, MA – Low-income patients served by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) waited significantly less time to receive specialty care after DHS implemented an electronic system aimed at…
Sorting through the Affordable Care Act debate
An “even-keeled” conversation is more effective than spouting off anecdotes, data, or numbers when discussing with political leaders and others who may not fully understand the implications of the Republican plan to repeal, replace, or repair the Affordable…
Benjamin Sommers honored for research evaluating impacts of the Affordable Care Act
Benjamin Sommers, associate professor of health policy and economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received the AcademyHealth HSR (Health Services Research) Impact Award for his work evaluating the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The award…
Many low-income adults in red Medicaid-expansion states say Obamacare helped them
As members of Congress discuss repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a survey by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health provides insights into the views of low-income adults living in red states. Researchers…
Testing a high-deductible health plan
High-deductible, lower premium health insurance plans appear poised to have an increasing role in American’s insurance options as the Trump administration, employers, and others seek to control health costs, even though researchers know little about how these plans…
‘New’ Obamacare defenders prepared for the challenge
Democrats set to defend the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) against repeal by Republicans under the Trump administration are quite different from the likes of the late Senator Edward Kennedy and others who supported it in 2009-2010. However, those…
Trump’s health secretary choice sparks concern
Trump’s choice for U.S. health secretary—U.S. Rep. Tom Price, a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act—suggests the President-elect may follow through on his campaign promise to repeal the health reform law. John McDonough, professor of the practice…
The future of public health under President Trump
How might the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president impact public health over the next four years? John McDonough, professor of the practice of public health at Harvard Chan School, who worked in the Senate…
