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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 20h

Decades of research confirms the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care provided by nurse practitioners (NP), and patients’ approval of them. Yet it’s challenging to recruit/retain NPs in primary care. A new report assesses barriers & identifies opportunities to realize the potential of NPs

Investing in Primary Care: The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now | Milbank Memorial Fund

Decades of research confirms the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care provided by NPs, including care for complex patients, and their acceptance and approval by patients. Yet challenges remain i...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 1d

In a new Milbank Quarterly Opinion, David Rosner of Columbia University argues that RFK Jr. embodies the current anti-science movement. Rosner reviews the history of public trust in public health, including public health’s biggest failures and the victories that are now under threat.

Charlatans, One and All | Milbank Memorial Fund

The Senate Finance Committee hearings with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) were explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 5d

A new Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs report describes how to use financial data to identify highly resourced hospitals and health systems (the haves) and financially precarious ones (the have-nots), using existing public analyses and state data where available

Separating the Haves from the Have-Nots: State Options for Targeted Application of Hospital Affordability Policies | Milbank Memorial Fund

Abstract As states seek to tackle high commercial health care spending, high spending growth, and increasingly unaffordable care, they must consider

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 6d

Join us for a Milbank Quarterly webinar on defining the structural determinants of health on Thursday, October 23 from 12-1pm ET

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Milbank Quarterly Webinar: Understanding the Structural Determinants of Health. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the w...

Structural determinants of health are hierarchical patterns of advantage among socially constructed groups that affect health. Unlike social determinants of health, the structural determinants of heal...

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Bailit Health @bailithealth.bsky.social · 6d

New report outlines how states can apply hospital affordability policies more precisely, targeting well-resourced systems without harming vulnerable ones.
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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 8d

Find out how health insurers that own providers are gaming the Medical Loss Ratio rules designed to protect consumers in a new Health Affairs Forefront article by January Angeles & Michael Bailit of @bailithealth.bsky.social www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... #affordablehealthcare

Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 12d

A new article assess consumer experiences of health insurance coverage uncertainty in 2009, 2014, and 2021. The authors found high rates of coverage uncertainty are associated with delayed access, inability to effectively care for chronic conditions, and heightened anxiety about medical care costs.

The Shadow Price of Uncertainty: Consequences of Unpredictable Insurance Coverage for Access, Care, and Financial Security | Milbank Quarterly

Context: Health insurance reform in the United States has focused on expanding enrollment, a goal inhibited by complex insurance provisions. Research

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 14d

As they respond to misinformation about vaccination, public health communicators should use simple messages and find the right messengers to encourage evidence-based decision making about vaccines. Read Morgan McDonald post for more guidance.

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacceeeeeene… | Milbank Memorial Fund

In the spring of 2021, my favorite T-shirt to wear on the soccer sidelines sported an image of Dolly Parton singing “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacceeeeeene” to the tune of “Jolene.” Parton herself sa...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to Lauren Gaydosh, the recipient of the Milbank Quarterly's Early Career Award at this year's @iaphs.bsky.social Annual Conference, for her research on population health disparities.

Lauren Gaydosh Recipient of Milbank Quarterly-IAPHS Early Career Award | Milbank Memorial Fund

News article: The Milbank Quarterly was pleased to present its Early Career Award in Population Health to Lauren Gaydosh, PhD, an Associate Professor of Sociology and faculty fellow at the Carolina Po...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you to our excellent panel that participated in the Milbank Quarterly's session during this year's @iaphs.bsky.social on articles from the special issue, Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Facing the United States: What Can State Policymakers Do?

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Primary Care Collaborative @thepcc.org · 14d

Join the PCC for a webinar exploring how emerging technologies and new tools can empower primary care teams.

This is the 2nd webinar in a PCC series on how to reduce the administrative burdens associated with participation in value-based care: thepcc.pub/techsolution...

Teams, Tech and Tools: Solutions for Administrative Burdens in Primary Care - PCC

Join the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) for a webinar exploring how emerging technologies and new tools can empower primary care teams and streamline participation in value-based care. For many clin...

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Primary Care Collaborative @thepcc.org · 19d

In 2022, ~4% of medical spending in the US went to primary care, a decrease since 2018. And in 2025, there were 7,901 primary care health professional shortage areas.

A new Health Care Cost Institute report highlights the need for strategic primary care investment:

4% of Health Spending Goes to Primary Care

Primary care offers patients a critical connection point to the health care system. With contact, continuity, comprehensiveness, and coordination as its base1, primary care has been shown to improve h...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 19d

Fifteen years ago, Rhode Island established affordability standards to cap annual increases in commercial insurers’ reimbursement rates for hospitals. A new issue brief presents the findings of a recent study from the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) at Brown University

Rhode Island’s Health Care Affordability Standards: Lessons for Other States Seeking to Control Health Care Spending | Milbank Memorial Fund

A recent study finds that Rhode Island's affordability standards, which apply only to the fully insured market, have led to a 9% relative reduction in hospital prices across the entire commercial mark...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 20d

In a new open-access Milbank Quarterly article, @sarahgollust.bsky.social of the University of Minnesota and coauthors interviewed public health communicators — including public health leaders, advocates, and journalists — about their strategies for explaining health equity.

Strategies for and Barriers to Communicating About Health Equity in Challenging Times: Qualitative Interviews with Public Health Communicators | Milbank Quarterly

Public health communicators often discuss health equity–related concepts, but it is not clear what strategies they use or what resources can support them to overcome challenges they face.

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 20d

In a new open-access Milbank Quarterly Perspective, @loridorfman.bsky.social & coauthors argue that advancing health and racial equity requires building narrative power — the ability to shape societal narratives and widespread beliefs — to illuminate structural solutions and advance health equity.

Changing the Story on Health and Racial Equity: Why Public Health Needs an Infrastructure for Building Narrative Power | Milbank Quarterly

A growing body of scholarship and practice in public health attests to the importance of addressing differences in power as a fundamental determinant of health inequities. To pursue health equity, pub...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 21d

In a new Milbank Quarterly Opinion, haroldpollack.bsky.social
and coauthors describe the need to improve care for adults with Down syndrome and dementia, who often live with elderly parent-caregivers.

Persons with Down Syndrome Face a 90% Lifetime Dementia Risk–A Reality of Aging That Must Be Addressed | Milbank Memorial Fund

Joseph, a 45-year-old man with Down syndrome is brought to the emergency department (ED) after he and his mother fell down the stairs. In a phone call

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Rutgers CSHP @rutgerscshp.bsky.social · 21d

CSHP/ @rutgersifh.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor @aspishakthomas.com and Research Coordinator Allison Oh co-authored a NEW blog post for the @milbankfund.bsky.social.

Learn how some states provide #healthinsurance to #children regardless of #immigration status: go.rutgers.edu/lo7kicw4

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 22d

Longstanding evidence shows that insuring children, regardless of immigration status, improves access to preventive care, reduces uncompensated care costs, and enhances long-term health outcomes.

Covering Uninsured Children: State Solutions for Immigrant Children | Milbank Memorial Fund

As of 2023, nearly 3 million children in the United States remained uninsured, largely due to immigration-related exclusions in public insurance programs like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insura...

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · 29d

A Framework for Assessing the Permissibility of Academic Leaders’ Outside Activities

Published in The Milbank Quarterly: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Population Health and Health Policy @milbankfund.bsky.social

Co-authored by PARC Associate Emily Largent

A Framework for Assessing the Permissibility of Academic Leaders’ Outside Activities

Policy Points Many have urged academic institutions to rethink conflict of interest policies governing leaders’ outside activities, which pose not only individual conflicts for leaders themselves...

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 27d

In a new post, Morgan McDonald, MD FACP FAAP draws on sessions at the National Conference of State Legislatures summit to offer policymakers and others guidance on surviving today's heated politics and fostering dialogue. www.milbank.org/2025/09/can-... #depolarization

Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 29d

In a new Milbank Quarterly Guest Opinion, @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social & @magdalena-cerda.bsky.social,
co-editors of the upcoming MQ special issue, argue that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cuts to Medicaid will heighten the behavioral health crisis in the United States.

Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis | Milbank Memorial Fund

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cuts to Medicaid will heighten the nation’s behavioral health crisis. Nationally, each year an estimated 20 to 25% of children and adults have a mental illness1 and 17...

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Grantmakers In Health @gihealth.bsky.social · Sep 2

The budget reconciliation bill threatens ACA gains, warns Tiffany Joseph in Milbank Quarterly, a publication from GIH Funding Partner @milbankfund.bsky.social. Joseph says Medicaid burdens, work rules, and cuts risk coverage loss for many, especially immigrants and low-income people. Read more:

We Are All Immigrants Now: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Decimates Health Care Access for All But a Privileged Few | Milbank Memorial Fund

The GOP Plan to End Obamacare involves fiscally starving it to death rather than an explicit repeal. Trump’s recent signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill” brings us closer to that harsh reality.

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Primary Care Collaborative @thepcc.org · Sep 3

In the wake of the #OBBBA, @nashphealth.bsky.social and @milbankfund.bsky.social have put together recommendations on how states can get the most value out of Medicaid programs.

Give their ideas a read here ⬇️

Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: A Policy Menu for States - NASHP

States explore strategies to strengthen primary care, improve health outcomes, and address challenges from H.R. 1 and budget pressures.

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The Commonwealth Fund @commonwealthfund.org · Sep 4

Evidence shows strong primary care = better outcomes at lower cost.

See this new @nashphealth.bsky.social‬ and ‪ @milbankfund.bsky.social report to learn about the policy actions state leaders can take to strengthen #primarycare & state success stories. bit.ly/4nfg676

Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: A Policy Menu for States | Milbank Memorial Fund

This report provides state leaders with a range of policy options states can use to strengthen primary care across geopolitically diverse contexts.

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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · Sep 3

State leaders must act now to invest in high-value care. Evidence shows strong primary care = better outcomes at lower cost. A new @nashphealth.bsky.social and @milbankfund.bsky.social report shares policy options to strengthen primary care & state success stories #primarycare

Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: A Policy Menu for States | Milbank Memorial Fund

This report provides state leaders with a range of policy options states can use to strengthen primary care across geopolitically diverse contexts.

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