Adam Gaffney

Jan 8, 2025 | inthesetimes.com | Adam Gaffney

Adam Gaffney January 8, 2025 Ahead of his inauguration on January 20, Donald Trump and his allies are promising to ​“Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA), a pledge that will soon be at center stage as his nominee to head the department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., faces confirmation hearings in the Senate.

Dec 11, 2024 | msnbc.com | Adam Gaffney

Last Wednesday, amidst a national wave of animus toward health insurers, Americans turned their ire on a policy that Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced last month concerning a new policy planned for three states that would deny claims for anesthesia for surgeries that went longer than a time limit set by Anthem. In addition to the groundswell of furor on social media platforms, New York Gov.

Nov 12, 2024 | almendron.com | Adam Gaffney |Ian Frazier |Kim Phillips-Fein

Paisley Currah This is what Donald Trump could do to transgender people during his second presidency: discharge all trans service people from the military; impose a nationwide ban on medical care for trans youth; prevent Medicaid and Medicare from paying for transition-related care even for adults; permit private health providers to exclude transgender-related coverage; ban all trans girls from playing on any girls teams regardless of age, sport, or level of competition; deny federal funding...

Nov 11, 2024 | nybooks.com | Adam Gaffney |Ian Frazier |Kim Phillips-Fein

Paisley Currah • Trevor Jackson • Kim Phillips-Fein • Ian Frazier • Adam Gaffney • Madeleine Schwartz * This is what Donald Trump could do to transgender people during his second presidency: discharge all trans service people from the military; impose a nationwide ban on medical care for trans youth; prevent Medicaid and Medicare from paying for transition-related care even for adults; permit private health providers to exclude transgender-related coverage; ban all trans girls from playing on...

Oct 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Steffie Woolhandler |David Himmelstein |Adam Gaffney

“We take it back,” Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, two of America’s most prominent health economists, declare in a new book, We’ve Got You Covered, their blueprint for reforming our health care system. After years of preaching “the gospel” that “patients must pay something for their care,” they’ve now abandoned the message. Instead they propose tax-funded “basic” health coverage—without copayments, deductibles, or other forms of “cost-sharing”—for all Americans.