Why Affordable Student Health Insurance Matters: A Look Back on Care for GW
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
In the wake of President Trump’s election in 2016, my friends and I at the George Washington University (GW) were anxious about health insurance. We worried that Trump and a Republican legislature might overturn the entire Affordable Care Act. A loss of protections allowing young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until age
- Published in Blog, Education, Health Care, Roosevelt @
The Best Option: Why the Public Option Won’t Be Universal
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Health care—and the prospect of a single-payer system—has gotten a lot of attention at the national level and in presidential debates this year. And for good reason: The costs of health care are consistently rising faster than the economy overall, and households are bearing those increased costs through growing premiums and deductibles. That means many
- Published in Blog, Health Care
Did Marketplace Coverage Really Offer Financial Protection?
Wednesday, 09 October 2019
Did Marketplace Coverage Really Offer Financial Protection? Financial Gains from the Affordable Care Act’s Private Insurance Policies for the Previously Uninsured While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health coverage to millions of Americans, more than half of the people eligible for the law’s private insurance marketplace remained uninsured. Today, most of those who were
- Published in Health Care, Publications, Working Papers
Progressing Ahead in 2019
Friday, 13 September 2019
Summers are never slow at Roosevelt, and now we’re gearing up for an even busier fall. At the top of our to-do list is explaining how and why the public sector must make big investments to tackle our nation’s toughest challenges; promoting our ideas to influence the Democratic presidential debate; and welcoming two new fellows
- Published in Blog, Economy & Growth, Health Care, Politics
How Structural Change Can Help Incarcerated People with Addiction Thrive—and Survive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
At least a quarter of the 2.3 million incarcerated people in US are addicted to opioids. The fact that our criminal justice system does not routinely provide treatment for opioid withdrawal or treat addiction as a disease is at best wasteful and counterproductive. Harsh drug laws ensure that we continue to see addiction as a
- Published in Blog, Health Care, Human Rights, Roosevelt @
New Rules for the 21st Century: Corporate Power, Public Power, and the Future of the American Economy
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
America’s political landscape and economic thinking are shifting. The 2016 election—and the rise of powerful movements over the past decade—has shown us that Americans are calling for change. They want a diagnosis of our economy to help make sense of what’s gone wrong and to suggest ways to make things better. In New Rules for
- Published in Economic Inclusion, Economy & Growth, Education, Health Care, Insights Left Column, Publications, Report
Creation of a Crisis: Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Chooses Profit Over People
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 21, 2019 CONTACT: Ariela Weinberger, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org Kathy Mulady, k.mulady@peoplesaction.org Creation of a Crisis: Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Chooses Profit Over People New issue brief explores how US policy choices have led to high drug prices, low health care investment, misaligned incentives, and escalating CEO pay across the pharmaceutical industry
- Published in Health Care, Press Release
The Rules of the Economy Are Taking a Tragic Toll on Women and Their Pregnancies
Thursday, 01 November 2018
Recently, The New York Times published a report about women who, while working in physically demanding jobs, lost their pregnancies after requests for less-strenuous assignments were denied. The profile is a tragic example of the steep toll levied on women, and particularly women of color, who face economic and social rules that are rigged against
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion, Health Care, homepage-slider, Human Rights, Work and Labor
Insuring Our Future: Rewriting Health Policy at the George Washington University
Monday, 19 March 2018
The George Washington University (GW) has a student health insurance problem. Annual insurance premiums for the university-sponsored student health insurance plan (SHIP) reached a five-year high of $4,103 for the 2017-18 policy year. This cost is exorbitantly high in comparison to similar plans offered by many other universities, discouraging students from enrolling in the school’s
- Published in Health Care, Publications, Report, Roosevelt @
Who Pays? The Cost of Rolling Back Protections for Preventive Care
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Three weeks ago, the Trump administration weakened the rules that protect women, effective immediately. By rolling back birth control coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act, non-profit religious organizations, such as hospitals and higher education institutions, are now able to reject contraceptive coverage all together. As a result, students at universities like Loyola University-Chicago and Georgetown
- Published in Blog, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Roosevelt @
