How Many Lives Have We Saved?
While Republican legislators have been insisting on an early reopening of businesses in Pennsylvania, we have seen one of...
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Our Opportunity to Re-evaluate: Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Policy Response and Priorities Moving Forward
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down. Many of us worry about the health and well-being of...
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A Status Update on Pennsylvania’s Policy Response to COVID-19: Economic Relief, Health Care and Worker Protections
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the inequities and inadequacies that exist in our Commonwealth, from the precarity of...
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The Likely Impact of COVID-19 on Pennsylvania
A recent study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington projects the...
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Viruses, Health Care, and Communal Provision
A few years ago, I wrote a piece that explained why health care has to be provided communally. I showed that...
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The Moral Equivalent of Wartime Equality: Public Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pennsylvania
The coronavirus poses a number of serious challenges to every country and to every state in the nation, and...
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Trump Makes the States a Medicaid Offer They Must Refuse
Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it would encourage states to apply for waivers...
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On Today’s Ruling on the Affordable Care Act Individual Health Insurance Mandate
Today’s 2-1 decision by a federal appeals court rules the ACA’s requirement that people have health insurance is unconstitutional...
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Opposing the State Senate’s Attempt to Reduce Access to Life-Saving Treatment During a Deadly Overdose Crisis (Opposing SB 675)
In the midst of a tragic overdose crisis, in the state with the third highest rate of overdose deaths...
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PA Protects Against Insurance Losses Caused by Trump
A census bureau report released on Tuesday shows that 1.9 million more Americans were uninsured in 2018 than in 2017,...
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Impact of Full ACA Repeal in Pennsylvania
Full repeal of the Affordable Care Act would lead to over 850,000 Pennsylvanians losing their health insurance. Yet, this...
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Fact Sheet: Pa. Should Take Federal Opportunity to Expand Medicaid Coverage
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides states with the opportunity to expand Medicaid coverage in 2014 to adults with...
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