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Apr 2, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Anna Bernstein |Tara Oakman |Thomas Waldrop |Kimberly M Knackstedt
It looks like Medicaid expansion will finally happen in Mississippi.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Rebecca Vallas |Neil Purohit |Thomas Waldrop |Kimberly M Knackstedt
Just over a year ago on Capitol Hill, on February 1, 2023, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a joint hearing on proposed legislation, HR 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act. The bill is more commonly known as the Lives Worth Living bill, and recently passed a vote in the House of Representatives.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Tara Oakman |Thomas Waldrop |Kimberly M Knackstedt
On December 01, 2023, The Century Foundation (TCF)’s Health Equity and Reform team responded to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding insurance coverage of over-the-counter (OTC) preventive services. In particular, we wanted to provide expert guidance on contraceptive access and breastfeeding supplies.
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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.
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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.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Michele Evermore |Emily McGrath |Tara Oakman |Kimberly M Knackstedt
The largest health care strike in U.S. history is underway, with more than 75,000 health care workers striking across the Kaiser Permanente (KP) system and spanning five states—California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. KP is the largest nonprofit health system in the country and this strike includes a wide range of health care workers—such as emergency medical technicians, nursing assistants, pharmacists, sanitation workers, and others.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Anna Bernstein |Tara Oakman |Kimberly M Knackstedt
LGBT people in the United States face significant health disparities compared to straight, cisgender people. These disparities are driven by a variety of reasons, including systemic bigotry and inequitable coverage that fails to provide LGBT people with affordable access to care that meets their unique health needs. In particular, the transgender community faces widespread discrimination and a coordinated push to ban gender-affirming care, especially for transgender or non-binary youth.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Kimberly M Knackstedt |Rebecca Vallas |Thomas Waldrop |Jamila Taylor
When the only hospital in Madera County, located in rural California, closed its doors in late January 2023, more than 160,000 residents were left without a general hospital. In the months since, Madera County residents have been forced to drive thirty minutes southeast to neighboring Fresno in order to receive care. For a mostly Latinx population already facing significant barriers to care, this closure has proven highly detrimental.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Kimberly M Knackstedt |Tara Oakman |Thomas Waldrop |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan
More than three years out from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific authorities continue to monitor Long COVID, the syndrome comprising the disabling aftereffects of SARS-CoV-2 that can last for months and years after one’s initial infection.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Kimberly M Knackstedt |Casandra May |Laura Gutierrez |Laura Gutiérrez |Julie Kashen
In February 2023, COVID-19 test manufacturer Abbott Laboratories laid off at least 750 workers in Maine. The number of laid off workers could be as high as 1,000, but it is hard to quantify, as most of the workers’ employers of record were temporary agencies. Nearly all of these workers were people of color, many of whom were immigrants who fled unrest back home, and many of whom spoke French or Lingala, but not English and hailed from a wide variety of nations in Central and Southern Africa.
