How work might worsen health
In light of debates over Medicaid work requirements, this review features studies that show how for healthy and unhealthy people alike, some forms of work might worsen health.
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How uninsured adults access health care
Uninsured adults don’t use emergency rooms more than insured adults. But they use other forms of health care much less, new research finds. Another study considers a strategy to change this.
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Impacts of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) currently provides low-cost insurance coverage to 9 million children. In September 2017, Congress failed to pass legislation reauthorizing the program, which now faces an uncertain future. We’ve collected the latest scholarship on the program to highlight the stakes in this legislative battle.
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Women’s sexual health and the Affordable Care Act: Research roundup
This compilation of the latest research on women’s sexual health will help journalists understand changes to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Studies highlight how contraceptive use and cost has changed in recent years, changes in insurance coverage and outcomes related to contraceptive use.
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Obamacare appears to save a Millennial’s life every day
By mandating that health insurance plans cover dependents until age 26, Obamacare may have saved a dramatic number of young Americans’ lives.
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Early detection of some cancers increased under Obamacare
After the Affordable Care Act made some cancer screenings routine, doctors began finding colorectal cancers earlier, when they are easier to treat.
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Tobacco cessation: Gaps in efforts to get Medicaid recipients to quit smoking
2016 study in Health Affairs that looks at the effectiveness of Medicaid programs in getting enrollees, who are twice as likely to smoke as the general population, to stop using tobacco.
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Highlights from 2016 speaker series: Election 2016, health care, Supreme Court and more
2016 highlights from the spring semester speaker series at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
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Vox editor Sarah Kliff on how media influences public opinion of ‘Obamacare’
A 2016 recorded talk by Sarah Kliff, deputy managing editor for visuals at Vox, about media coverage of the Affordable Care Act and what’s next for health care policy.
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Importance of the individual insurance mandate: Evidence from Massachusetts
2011 analysis by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College on the Commonwealth’s insurance-requirement law.
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