If you travel in global health circles, you might see prominent researchers wearing a green bracelet with the inscription “Fogarty International Center: Advancing Science for Global Health.” The reason is that President Trump’s March budget blueprint called for drastic cuts… Read More ›
Month: April 2017
JAMA Forum: Where Does the Health Insurance Premium Dollar Go?
By Uwe Reinhardt, PhD In early March, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association of private US health insurers, released an interesting report that presents, for insured patients younger than 65 years, financial statistics for 2014 of commercial and… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Is the Affordable Care Act Imploding?
President Trump has said on various occasions that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is imploding, exploding, or collapsing. There is very little evidence for this. The ACA includes 2 main components. One is an expansion of Medicaid. The other is new rules… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Hunger, Health, and Compassion
The juxtaposition of headlines must have sent shivers down the spines of the global humanitarian and human rights communities. Even as headlines warned of 20 million people in Africa and the Mideast facing starvation, the Trump Administration was proposing unprecedented… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Safe Injection Facilities Reduce Individual and Societal Harms
Last winter, the mayor of Ithaca, New York, Svante Myrick, proposed to provide a safe and legal space in which people could inject heroin. It may sound like a radical and desperate way to reduce the harms of drug use. But its effectiveness—and cost-effectiveness—is well… Read More ›