Editorial: Want people off Medicaid? Give them more access to it
New research found those who gained coverage through Michigan's Medicaid expansion faced fewer debt problems, fewer evictions and bankruptcies, and saw their credit scores rise just years after enrolling for coverage.
Editorial: The midterm elections will decide the fate of the ACA
If the GOP maintains control of the entire government, the nation's health insurance marketplace would look a lot like the one that existed before passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Editorial: Payment reform tests positive
New analyses of the major payment reforms begun during the Obama years suggest they do in fact lower healthcare spending. While the savings are small, they provide a strong argument for HHS Secretary Alex Azar to step up the pace of value-based reimbursement reform.
Editorial: With food insecurity a growing problem, SNAP is vital to public health efforts
By insisting on even stricter work requirements for SNAP benefits, House Republicans are standing in the way of a basic public health program.
Editorial: Antitrust enforcement won't fix high healthcare costs
Community opponents of two pending healthcare mergers need to ask themselves whether antitrust enforcement is really the best approach for lowering healthcare costs.
Editorial: Healthcare PACs voting for incumbent protection
Many Democratic congressional hopefuls are making healthcare their top talking point for the upcoming midterm elections, which is not surprising given the low unemployment rate. The early donations from political action groups lean toward the incumbents.
Editorial: As the midterm elections approach, politicians ignore healthcare
Healthcare is one-fifth of the nation's economy and a job creator, adding 16,700 positions in July, on top of the 25,200 added in June. So it is a bit of a head scratcher as to why industry executives weren't part of the conversation.
Editorial: Paying for single-payer
Single-payer advocates need to articulate how their plan will be paid for. To generate broad-based political support, they will need to show that provider rates will be adequate; that insurers can have a role in the system; and that the public's fear of change can be assuaged.
Editorial: Can women in healthcare have it all?
Executives need to make compensation more transparent and provide flexible work arrangements so women leaders have more opportunities to excel.
Editorial: Turn support jobs into good jobs
Growing pay inequality is a huge problem in healthcare. It's going to take a conscious commitment by healthcare's top leaders, sustained over many years, to turn the industry's critical support jobs into good jobs.
Editorial: Caring about children's health after they're born
As we hunker down for months of culture wars over abortion, here's a question worth pondering: Wouldn't it be nice if the governing party in Washington cared as much about the well-being of children and their mothers during and after birth as they do about fetuses?
Editorial: How to end the financial toxicity of specialty drugs
The high prices for specialty drugs are forcing physicians, patients and their families to factor in financial toxicity when choosing an appropriate therapy.
