Policymakers Across the Country Take Note: Maine Voters Weigh in For Coverage, Against Obstruction
Yesterday, the people of Maine voted overwhelmingly to extend Medicaid coverage to 70,000 low-income Mainers. This finally ends the five-year-long battle to close the coverage gap in the state. Maine’s legislature has passed Medicaid expansion with broad support five times...
Eldercare Voices: Moving Toward Person- and Family-Centered Care
Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW As November is National Family Caregivers Month (#NFCMonth), with this year’s theme “Caregiving Around the Clock,” we are pleased to reprint an Eldercare Voices column on the importance of recognizing the vital role of family caregivers...
Three Ways the 2018-2022 HHS Strategic Plan Turns Back the Clock on Progress
In September, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan to provide new departmental guidance following the 2014 plan from the Obama administration. Upon first glance, it becomes readily apparent that the missions and priorities...
CHIP: One Step Forward, Three Steps Back.
On Friday, CHIP refunding moved forward, ending Halloween week with a trick not a treat.
“Don’t Just Make Them Hear You, Make Them Listen!”
On Oct. 12, I was honored to join advocates and consumers from Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Michigan for a day in Washington, D.C. focused on person-centered care for Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries. Our day was centered around the Alliance for Health...
Goblins and Zombies Aren’t As Scary As Kids Losing Coverage
As we are passing out sweets to all the cute ghosts and dinosaurs, we should be concerned that families are wondering whether the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be available to their children in the coming months and years.
Stop Stigmatizing Mental Illness and Call Gun Violence What It Is: A Public Health Crisis
It happens every time news breaks of a mass shooting.
Aging in America: A Crisis in Caring We’re Not Talking About
Every day, 10,000 people in this country turn 65 – that’s more than 400 every hour! What does this mean for health and health care? That’s the conversation that Politico Live convened recently in Washington D.C., bringing together national thought...
Eldercare Voices: Whatever It Takes - Building a Healthcare System like "Cheers" (Where Everyone Knows Your Name)
Steven M. Stein, MD Fragmented care delivered by fragmented providers with fragmented documentation during fragmented hours in fragmented settings through fragmented funding has not provided person-centered care. “Whatever It Takes” is an attempt we are undertaking in Michigan to change...