Andrea Flynn

Jan 16, 2025 | tcf.org | Andrea Flynn |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Anna Bernstein |Thomas Waldrop

Proposals to cap federal Medicaid spending could limit coverage for new therapeutic treatments for health challenges and inequities like obesity, according to a January 16, 2025 article in JAMA Health Forum.

Oct 24, 2024 | tcf.org | Andrea Flynn |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Anna Bernstein |Jamila Taylor

In early October, a judge in Fulton County, Georgia blocked a six-week abortion ban following the deaths of two women that might have been prevented had they had access to abortion care. Less than a week after the Fulton County decision, the Georgia Supreme Court reinstated the six-week ban. If anyone doubts that the nation is experiencing politically divisive and turbulent times placing people’s lives at risk, all the proof they need is in the state of reproductive and maternal health.

Sep 16, 2024 | tcf.org | Anna Bernstein |Andrea Flynn |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Thomas Waldrop

Health care in the United States is expensive and, for many, unaffordable, conditions which drive unacceptable health outcomes and burden household and state budgets. This is true for patients across the spectrum, with even insured patients experiencing difficulty. In a recent KFF poll, about half of insured adults and 85 percent of uninsured adults reported difficulty affording health care costs.