Impacts of Federal Policy Actions on Health

By Nina Christie

Christie argues that for HHS’ new addiction initiative to work, it must engage with, rather than reject, evidence-based recovery approaches that promote and center community. 

Published in The Hill on February 9th, 2026

By Adam Gaetz

Gaetz urges Congress to pass a bill to address the U.S. physician shortage crisis by funding 14,000 new Medicare-supported residency positions.

Published February 5th, 2026

By Pasquale Rummo and Jesse Strunk-Elkins

The authors explains show how cuts to SNAP will leave people overworked and underfed, especially veterans, unhoused people, manual laborers, and others.

Published in The Hill on December 28th, 2025

By Ali Groves

Groves explains why unreliable federal food assistance makes strong local policies essential for supporting pregnant people and new parents.

Published in PennLive on November 25th, 2025 

By Joseph Harris

Harris argues that a GOP-backed public option could cut premiums, boost competition, and give Republicans a path to win back voters in 2026.

Published in The Hill on November 15th, 2025 

By Shamik Bhat and Soumitra S. Bhuyan

Bhat and Bhuyan warn that letting Affordable Care Act subsidies expire will double premiums, push thousands of New Jerseyans off coverage, and strain families and hospitals statewide.

Published in NJ.com on November 9th, 2025 

By Leah Gose

Gose explains that the 2025 government shutdown’s SNAP interruption is turning chronic hunger into an acute crisis, overwhelming food pantries and pushing millions toward deeper hardship.

Published in Los Angeles Times on November 6th, 2025 

By Kathryn Freeman Anderson

Anderson discusses what the Affordable Care Act tax credits expiring means for residents of Texas, a state where 16.7% of residents are already uninsured.

Published in Houston Chronicle on October 31st, 2025

By Colin Gordon

Gordon warns that expiring ACA tax credits and deep Medicaid cuts will triple premiums, strip coverage from more than 100,000 Iowans, and push rural hospitals toward collapse.

Published in The Gazette on October 30th, 2025 

By Michael Gusmano

Gusmano shows that without Congress extending ACA tax credits, nearly 484,000 Pennsylvanians could lose coverage and premiums could rise 22%, while $911 billion in Medicaid cuts deepen the state’s health care crisis.

Published in PennLive on October 20th, 2025 

By Chris Howard

Howard explains how Trump’s rollback of ACA tax credits will leave over 80,000 Virginians uninsured and raise premiums by up to $1,000 a month, while upcoming Medicaid cuts threaten millions more.

Published in Richmond Times-Dispatch on October 20th, 2025 

By Mimi Zieman

Zieman warns that the Trump administration’s destruction of federally funded birth control and rollback of contraceptive access reflect a broader conservative agenda that endangers women’s health, autonomy, and public health policy.

Published in Newsweek on September 24th, 2025 

By Charley Willison & Isabel Perera

Willison and Perera write that Trump’s plan to institutionalize homeless people with mental illness will worsen homelessness and undermine mental health care.

Published in The Fulcrum on August 6th, 2025

By Robert Glover

Glover writes that the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts targeting SAMHSA, the CDC, and Medicaid, jeopardize the progress made in fighting the overdose crisis.

Published in Centralmaine.com on July 1st, 2025

By Zachary Rossetti

Rossetti warns that proposed Medicaid cuts in the GOP’s federal budget would devastate people with disabilities by slashing essential services and forcing many back into institutions.

Published in The Fulcrum on June 24th, 2025

By Jennifer Greenfield

Greenfield argues that congressional budget cuts to SNAP, EITC, and Medicaid will severely harm vulnerable Colorado families and the state's economy while benefiting the wealthy.

Published in the Denver Post on June 18th, 2025

By Philip Rocco

Rocco warns that the “Big Beautiful Bill’s” Medicaid and tax credit cuts will cost Wisconsinites health coverage, despite public demand for affordable healthcare.

Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 15th, 2025

By Miranda Yaver

Yaver writes that the "One Big Beautiful Bill" forces states to cut Medicaid, abandoning federalism and harming millions.

Published in Medpage Today on June 14th, 2025

By Simon F. Haeder

Haeder details how Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" uniquely cuts health coverage via new Medicaid work requirements, state funding penalties, and ACA Marketplace barriers.

Published in The Conversation on June 13th, 2025

By Miranda Yaver

Yaver warns that House Republicans' proposed Medicaid cuts threaten millions of vulnerable recipients, particularly in conservative rural communities

Published in STAT News on June 12th, 2025

By Christopher Witko

Witko explains that the "Big, Beautiful Bill" gives tax cuts to millionaires, increasing debt, while reducing support for working families via the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.

Published in PennLive on June 10th, 2025

By Marissa Williams & Kristen Gleason

Williams and Gleason explain that proposed Medicaid cuts could strip thousands of Maine fishermen of vital health care, putting their well-being and the future of the state’s $3.2 billion fishing industry at risk.

Published in The Portland Press Herald on June 10th, 2025

By Grace O'Toole

O'Toole emphasizes the need for stronger federal advocacy on reproductive health by highlighting how the Ombuds Act could help protect access to essential services amid growing abortion and healthcare restrictions.

Published on June 5th, 2025

By Taryn Morrissey

Morrissey critiques the House Republicans’ “Big, Beautiful Bill” for offering minimal family support through a small child tax credit while slashing key programs like Medicaid and SNAP that families rely on.

Published in The Progressive on June 2nd, 2025

By Michael Shepherd and Miranda Yaver

Shepherd and Yaver explain how Trump’s proposed Medicaid cuts would devastate rural hospitals and the Republican voters who depend on them.

Published in The Hill on June 2nd, 2025

By Barbara Risman

Risman writes about the impacts of Trump’s executive orders that seek to limit federal recognition of transgender people by recognizing only two genders and the attempts to erase nonbinary identities.

Published in The Conversation on May 28th, 2025

By Nadia Bell, Eliana Buckner and Benjamin Sommers

The authors reveal why proposed work requirements in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" would jeopardize health care and food aid for millions of low-income Americans.

Published in U.S. News and World Report on May 27th, 2025

By Jake Haselswerdt

Haselswerdt writes that federally mandated Medicaid work requirements would overwhelm Missouri’s already struggling system and strip health coverage from thousands of eligible residents.

Published in the Columbia Missourian on May 27th, 2025

By Cassandra Boness

Boness draws on her experience growing up around addiction to warn that federal funding cuts are threatening critical addiction research and treatment programs.

Published in The Albuquerque Journal on May 18th, 2025

By Harry Holzer

Holzer uses economic evidence to break down why the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will harm families.

Delivered remarks at a U.S. Capitol press conference hosted by Economic Security Project Action and Community Change Action on May 12th, 2025

By Chris Howard

Howard details how the Republican budget proposal would significantly harm Virginia by slashing funding for essential programs like healthcare, education, and nutrition assistance.

Published on May 8th, 2025

By Amy Fried 

Amy Fried argues that Trump, Musk, and RFK Jr. are endangering cancer patients by undermining research, clinical trials, and the FDA.

Published in Portland Press Herald on April 14th, 2025

By Tiffany Joseph

Joseph argues that Republican plans to cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies are a calculated effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and jeopardize health care for millions.

Published in The Hill on March 24th, 2025

By Micki Burdick

Burdick argues that repealing the FACE Act would escalate threats to reproductive health clinics by enabling anti-abortion activists to resume violent and obstructive protest tactics.

Published in The Conversation on March 10th, 2025