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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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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.
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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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Jul 9, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Julie Kashen |Lea Woods |Lauren Hogan |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan
Health coverage plays a critical role in enabling women to access health care. It can alleviate some of health care’s financial burden and often determines whether or not individuals seek care at all. For example, before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nearly half (48 percent) of women ages 19–64 reported delaying medical care due to cost, but this number has dropped by more than 40 percent (to only 28 percent) since the law was enacted.
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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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May 24, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Kings Floyd |Anna Bernstein |Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan |Steven Greenhouse
This commentary is the first in the series Connecting Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice, an ongoing collaboration between The Century Foundation’s Disability Economic Justice team and Maternal and Reproductive Health team. The series explores how the reproductive justice and disability justice movements came to be, the challenges they share, and the benefits of addressing potential solutions to those challenges through an intersectional lens.
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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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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.
