Breaking Up Health Care Conglomerates—The Right Fix Right Now?
Recently, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced the Break Up Big Medicine Act (BUBMA), a bipartisan bill intended to break up health care conglomerates.
Research
The Disproportionate Burden: Health and Economic Outcomes of COVID-19 for Native American Communities
American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations experienced disproportionate health and economic impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Emulated trial of artificial intelligence use and subsequent depressive outcomes in a survey of US adults
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) use has been suggested to have adverse mental health consequences but a causal relationship has not been examined. To simulate a randomised controlled trial of
Waldron on Dignity and Old Age
This essay first presents Jeremy Waldron’s views on dignity in general, dignity specific to old age, and their relation to suicide.
Revealing Life Preferences Through LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a prodigious corpus of human writing and may reveal human preferences over characteristics of life courses, such as income, longevity, and working condition
State Expansions in Medicaid Financial Assistance for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries: Changes in Enrollment and Use
Objective: To examine the association between state increases in income or asset eligibility limits for Medicare Savings Programs (MSP), which provide assistance with Medicare cost-sharing and/or prem
Medicaid Retention After Transition to Medicare Among Adults With Expansion Coverage
IMPORTANCE When becoming eligible for Medicare, adults previously covered by Medicaid expansion are typically required to meet an asset test for Medicaid coverage of Medicare cost-sharing and/or premi
Immigration Attitudes Public Opinion Turns Against Administration Policies
• ICE enforcement disapproval rose in our February 2026 wave across every partisan, age, and gender group.
Understanding Medicaid Managed Care: The Procured Competition Model
Medicaid is one of the largest public programs in the United States—providing health insurance to over 75 million low-income Americans—and over three quarters of its enrollees receive care via private
Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation
Regulators of new products confront a trade-off between speeding a product to market and collecting additional product quality information.
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