Caroline Hoover

Jun 13, 2024 | tcf.org | Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Tara Oakman |Caroline Hoover |Thomas Waldrop

On June 6, 2024, TCF health care policy fellows Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan and Thomas Waldrop responded to a request for information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding improving maternal health outcomes by leveraging Medicare payments. Their letter appears below.

Apr 10, 2024 | tcf.org | Thomas Waldrop |Caroline Hoover |Anna Bernstein |Jamila Taylor

The United States is in the process of a major reckoning regarding cannabis—at least at the state level. The vast majority of states have legalized some form of cannabis for medical use, and just under half have also enacted measures to allow nonmedical (recreational) adult use. This sea change in attitudes toward cannabis nationwide is welcome news to people with disabilities, many of whom have long relied on cannabis as a medical treatment for things such as chronic pain and other symptoms.

Dec 13, 2023 | tcf.org | Tara Oakman |Caroline Hoover |Kimberly M Knackstedt |Rebecca Vallas

On October 30, President Biden issued a landmark executive order on artificial intelligence (AI). While AI originated as a term for methods of simulating human intelligence in machines, today it is used as an umbrella term for a range of advanced processing and decision-making technologies that sometimes, but don’t always, take inspiration from biological life.

Dec 6, 2023 | tcf.org | Caroline Hoover |Tara Oakman |Kimberly M Knackstedt |Rebecca Vallas

Burnout and stress among nurses is an acute issue. Almost one-third of registered nurses and two-thirds of critical care nurses say that they are planning to leave their direct patient care position in the next year with burnout being a major contributing factor.

Sep 6, 2023 | tcf.org | Caroline Hoover |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Anna Bernstein |Thomas Waldrop

Over the past several decades, spending on prescription drugs has , growing from $90 per person on average in 1960 to $1,025 per person in 2017. More than 60 percent of U.S. adults currently take at least one prescription drug, and around 30 percent of those adults have difficulty affording their medicine—especially low-income people and those who take multiple medications.