Ada Delores Peters

Apr 9, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Ada Delores Peters

In exchange for spending more on health care than any other high-income country, the US has the lowest rate of life expectancy and the highest rate of chronic disease. Diet-related conditions claim US lives every year and are the leading driver behind the $4.1 trillion spent on health care each year. Furthermore, treatment for these conditions cost public health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid nearly $384 billion annually—a figure that is only expected to increase over time.

Mar 4, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Devon Minnick |Richard Hughes IV |Ada Delores Peters |Naomi Seiler |Sara Rosenbaum

Braidwood Management v. Becerra, scheduled for oral argument in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today, March 4, has the potential to undermine decades of bipartisanship and groundbreaking innovation aimed at ending the transmission of the HIV virus that causes AIDS. This would have long-lasting consequences for preventive health care and society in general.