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2 months ago | 
tcf.org | Steven Greenhouse |Thomas Waldrop |Lex Brierley |Elizabeth Dawes
President Trump could hit a trifecta regarding health care in the coming months by combining three of his priorities: lowering prices, improving efficiency, and empowering states. Here are a couple ideas on how to do that—alongside steps away from those goals being considered by Congress. Choices in the coming weeks and months could set the path toward or away from health care affordability for Americans.
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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.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
tcf.org | Jeanne Lambrew |Thomas Waldrop |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Zack DiGregorio
In the coming weeks, the incoming Trump administration and Congress will debate a ten-year budget resolution that likely includes large Medicaid spending reductions. TCF’s analysis shows…. Targets of cutting $100 billion in the Medicaid budget equals the coverage cost of 3.7 million children, or the total number of babies born in the U.S. each year.
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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.
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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.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Tara Oakman |Thomas Waldrop |Kings Floyd
This commentary uses the terms “queer” and “Hispanic/Latino.” The terms are chosen to encompass a spectrum of non-heterosexual orientations, providing broader perspective on the issues discussed, and to resonate with a wide demographic while acknowledging the diversity within these communities. Additionally, “MSM” (men who have sex with men) is utilized in line with health care research to address specific health dynamics without assuming sexual orientation.
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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.
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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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Mar 20, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Anna Bernstein |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Jamila Taylor |Thomas Waldrop
On what would have been the fifty-first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration announced new actions the administration will take this year to expand access to reproductive and sexual health care, including contraceptive care. During this year’s State of the Union address, while he did not comment on contraception specifically, President Biden doubled down on the importance of defending reproductive freedom.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Thomas Waldrop |Anna Bernstein |Jamila Taylor
When the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion through its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson in June 2022, it claimed to be returning the issue of abortion access back to the states and people’s elected officials.
