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Improving Health Care Quality

Building on Behavioral Health Parity: State Options to Strengthen Access to Care

Blog / May 25, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Medicaid Work Requirements Wouldn’t Increase Employment and Could Imperil Future Labor Market Participation

Blog / May 24, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Creating a Pathway to Affordable Health Insurance for Dreamers

Blog / May 18, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Déjà Vu All Over Again: Congress’s Repeated Attempts to Create Work Requirements in Medicaid

Blog / Apr 27, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

States Have New Options to Improve the Health of People Leaving Jails and Prisons

Blog / Apr 25, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

A Proposed Public Option Plan to Increase Competition and Lower Health Insurance Premiums in California

Issue Briefs / Apr 21, 2023

Della Young, a kidney transplant patient with lupus, stands at her home in McDonough, Ga., on Oct. 26, 2021. Young lost Medicaid coverage when she moved from New York to Georgia, which is one of 11 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid coverage to 138% of the poverty level. Those nonexpansion states have lower rates of insurance coverage and health care access overall, with larger disparities between racial/ethnic groups, than expansion states. Photo: Nicole Craine/New York Times via Redux

Advancing Health Equity

Inequities in Health Insurance Coverage and Access for Black and Hispanic Adults

Issue Briefs / Mar 16, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

States Act to Strengthen Surprise Billing Protections Even After Passage of No Surprises Act

Blog / Mar 16, 2023

Students enjoy the game room at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School in Compton, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2023. California is investing more than $4 billion to revamp its approach to youth mental health, ensuring that services are community-based, equitable, and inclusive of many different types of providers. Photo: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Strengthening Home- and Community-Based Services to Stabilize Young People with Behavioral Health Problems and Keep Them Out of Hospitals

Blog / Mar 08, 2023

Gloria Cote, 92, left, and Sr. Jeanne Fregeau, 93, sit on the porch at St. Chretienne Retirement Residence in Marlborough, Mass., on Aug. 26, 2020. Both recovered from COVID-19 infections earlier in the year. The pandemic has prompted increased investment in home- and community-based services to transform care settings and expand options for long-term care. Photo: Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Policy Options to Advance Long-Term Care: Resources and Tools for State Policymakers

Blog / Feb 21, 2023

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives on the first day of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2023. With political control now divided between the House and Senate, the long-simmering issue of ERISA preemption reform has potential to receive bipartisan support in Congress. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Controlling Health Care Costs

Reforming ERISA to Help States Control Health Care Costs

Issue Briefs / Feb 09, 2023

Boston Medical Center nurses and doctors orchestrate care for patients on April 15, 2020. Officials interviewed in Massachusetts and 10 other states said that hospital spending, particularly in the form of high prices, is a key driver of rising health care costs. Photo: Erin Clark/Boston Globe via Getty Images

Controlling Health Care Costs

States Take on Affordability — Hospital and Pharmaceutical Spending Are Pressing Priorities, but Difficult to Tackle

Blog / Jan 26, 2023

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