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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S, March 1, 2022. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Tackling unfinished business and taking on current challenges: Putting Biden’s mental health proposals in context

Richard G. Frank, Vikki Wachino, and Karina Aguilar

Monday, April 4, 2022

Adelana Akindes takes part in a demonstration against racial injustice by the Coalition to March on the Democratic Convention outside the site of the DNC, which will be a largely virtual event due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How We Rise

The pandemic showed why social and structural determinants of health matter. Now it’s time for policymakers to act.

Anthony Barr, Ariel Gelrud Shiro, and Andre M. Perry

Friday, February 18, 2022

TechTank

How technology is transforming mental health assessment and treatment

Gregory Ferenstein

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

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Intensive Care

By Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann

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Experts

Keon L. Gilbert

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

@DrKLG4Health

Erin Trish

Co-director - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

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Essay

Health policy solutions for the Biden administration and the 117th U.S. Congress

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Patient Sharon Dawson Coates (L) has her knee examined by Dr. Nikhil Narang at University of Chicago Medicine Urgent Care Clinic in Chicago June 28, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION HEALTH)

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

There are clear, race-based inequalities in health insurance and health outcomes

Christen Linke Young

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A wellness center medical director examines a patient.

Health Care Policy

The Trump administration’s new challenge to the Affordable Care Act

Christen Linke Young

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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Young protesters march for justice system reform and equity in education in Portland, Oregon, U.S., August 1, 2020. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Overcoming racism to advance economic opportunity

Camille Busette

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Comments on the 2023 Advance Notice on Medicare Part C and D payment policies

Matthew Fiedler and Richard G. Frank

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Comments on National Coverage Determination for Aduhelm

Sean Dickson, Richard G. Frank, Ge Bai, Rachel Sachs, Ernst Berndt, Ameet Sarpatwari, Rena M. Conti, Mariana Socal, and Stacie Dusetzina

Monday, February 14, 2022

Children with cloth face masks standing behind a fence.

Need for long-term strategies to address children’s mental health underscored by COVID-19 era

Stuart M. Butler

Friday, February 4, 2022

Why is life expectancy so low in Black neighborhoods?

Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, and Anthony Barr

Monday, December 20, 2021

Comments on Senate Finance Committee’s call for proposals to address mental health needs

Richard G. Frank and Sherry Glied

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

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Dobbs, another frontline for health equity

Can Biden avert a health insurance cliff?

The resilience of African nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Churches are closing in predominantly Black communities – why public health officials should be concerned

Reports

Eliminating small Marketplace premiums could meaningfully increase insurance coverage

Building connective tissue for effective housing-health initiatives

The economic case for federal investment in COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics remains strong

Is ‘long Covid’ worsening the labor shortage?

Private equity-owned air ambulances receive higher payments, generate larger and more frequent surprise bills