A new federal rule has quietly made nursing education financially inaccessible. The Department of Education recently locked in place a 1960s-era list of “professions,” and nursing wasn’t on that list.

Kelseanne Breder, PhD, RN, is a nursing professor and psychoanalytic candidate whose work focuses on social and mental health disparities in older adults, and health care workforce issues.

Private equity (PE) investment has been a lightning rod for debates over rising health care costs, workforce instability, and declining quality. However, a frequently misunderstood point is that the ...

Perhaps no other individual has contributed so much for so long to American health care as Stuart Altman. And Stuart did it with grace and humor in ways that endeared him to people across the ...

In part 1 of this article below, we discuss the history of and legal issues regarding the interstate sale of insurance and ...

The OBBBA will substantially increase volatility in Medicaid Managed Care by increasing churn, generating pent-up demand, and ...

Immunization schedules work because they are grounded in evidence, continually reviewed, and adapted to the epidemiology and health system in which they operate.

David Shactman is a Senior Fellow (retired) at the Heller School for Social Policy and Research at Brandeis University. He was Executive Director of the Council on ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Roslyn Murray of Brown University to discuss her paper exploring how Oregon’s 2019 ...

Christopher Garmon ( [email protected]) is an economist in the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, in Washington, D.C. Benjamin Chartock is a research analyst in the Bureau of Economics, ...

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Patricia Pinckombe is a health care attorney with hands-on clinical experience as a firefighter and paramedic, which informs her perspective on healthcare policy and patient access.