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Addressing the Risk of Medicare Trust Fund Insolvency
In this Viewpoint for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), KFF’s Tricia Neuman and co-author Richard G. Frank of Harvard Medical School explain that the looming 2024 insolvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund cannot be ignored for long.
Column Read PostHow Quickly We Need To Ramp Up Vaccinations To Get To Herd Immunity
Debate about how many vaccinations are needed by when has been in the news. Drew Altman lays it out in his latest column.
Column Read PostThe Language of Health Care Reform
Published in the Jan. 19 edition of JAMA, this article from KFF Executive Vice President for Health Policy Larry Levitt lays out the major health policy challenges that will confront President-elect Biden and potential approaches to major reform. While a big reform debate may not be likely this year, one…
Column Read PostWe Need a Better Way Of Distributing the COVID-19 Vaccine. Here’s How To Do It.
In an op-ed for The Washington Post, KFF President Drew Altman calls for a simplification of the troubled COVID-19 vaccine distribution system.
Op-Ed Read PostThe Challenge Of Vaccine Hesitancy In Rural America
In his latest Axios column, Drew Altman looks at the challenge of vaccine hesitancy in rural America and its implications. One of them: a highly tailored outreach campaign is needed. “Addressing this hesitancy will require convincing rural Americans about the seriousness of the pandemic, and then that the vaccine is a way to protect them, their families and their way of life,” he said.
Column Read PostJoe Biden’s New Health Care Agenda (and CMS’s Big Role In It)
With the Georgia runoff elections giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate, Drew Altman discusses President-elect Biden’s potential health care agenda and suggests that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could have an expanded role and that it may be time to rename it and elevate it to a cabinet agency.
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