Medicaid Reform – Georgia
Reshaping Medicaid care to affect many, By Carrie Teegardin and Misty Williams, June 3, 2012, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Georgia is reshaping its Medicaid program, a complex lifeline for 1.7...
View ArticleHealth and Behavior of Americans in Poverty
Americans in poverty at greater risk for chronic health problems, By Danielle Kurtzleben, October 30, 2012, U.S. News & World Report: “Poverty doesn’t just mean trouble making ends meet and having...
View ArticleStates and Medicaid Expansion
Will Ohio Gov. John Kasich expand Medicaid? ‘Too important to leave hanging’, By Sarah Jane Tribble, January 13, 2013, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “For Ohio’s health care industry and patient advocates,...
View ArticleOregon Health Study
Medicaid access increases use of care, study finds, By Annie Lowrey, May 1, 2013, New York Times: “Come January, millions of low-income adults will gain health insurance coverage through Medicaid in...
View ArticleHomelessness and Housing
A new start for KC’s homeless as shelter eliminates daily lines for beds, By Lynn Horsley, November 13, 2013, Kansas City Star: “Every afternoon for 30 years, as many as 100 men and women have lined...
View ArticleMental Health Screening for Children
Screening children for mental health issues may not guarantee care, By Chelsea Conaboy, November 25, 2013, Boston Globe: “Six years after the state launched an unprecedented effort to address the...
View ArticlePoverty and Children’s Health
Evidence mounting that poverty causes lasting physical and mental health problems for children, By David Templeton, November 24, 2013, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Sheila Good faced the decision most...
View ArticleHomelessness and Housing First
Housing is most cost-effective treatment for mental illness: study, By André Picard, April 8, 2014, The Globe and Mail: “For every $1 spent providing housing and support for a homeless person with...
View ArticleACA and Health Insurance Coverage
Number of Americans without health insurance reaches new low, By Noam N. Levey, April 7, 2014, Los Angeles Times: “The share of Americans without health insurance has dropped to the lowest level since...
View ArticleFoster Children and Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions – Colorado
Colorado responds slowly to psychotropic drug use among foster kids, By Jennifer Brown and Christopher N. Osher, April 13, 2014, Denver Post: “Diego Conde was 12 when his mother died, devastated and...
View ArticleFoster Children and Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions – Wyoming
Too much, too young? One in three Wyoming foster care children prescribed psychotropic drugs, By Leah Todd, August 10, 2014, Casper Star-Tribune: “For Cameron O’Malley, weekends at his sister’s house...
View ArticleFoster Children and Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions – California
Drugging our kids: Children in California’s foster care system are prescribed risky medications, By Karen de Sá, August 23, 2014, San Jose Mercury News: “They are wrenched from abusive homes, uprooted...
View ArticleFoster Children and Antipsychotic Drug Prescriptions – California
California toughens stance on use of mind-altering antipsychotic drugs for poor children, foster youth, By Karen de Sá, March 12, 2015, Los Angeles Daily News: “State regulators are rejecting thousands...
View ArticleUnemployment and Mental Health
For younger adults, unemployment may triple the risk of depression, By Karen Kaplan, March 19, 2015, Los Angeles Times: “Unemployment isn’t just bad for your bank account. It can also do serious damage...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion and Mental Health Treatment
Medicaid expansion would have helped 18,400 mentally ill Louisianians in 2014, study says, By Rebecca Catalanello, New Orleans Times-Picayune: “More than 18,400 uninsured Louisianians diagnosed with...
View ArticleFoster Children and Antipsychotic Drug Prescriptions – California
Use of meds by L.A. County foster, delinquent kids prompts reform, By Garrett Therolf, April 7, 2015, Los Angeles Times: “Los Angeles County officials are preparing to crack down on doctors who...
View ArticleEx-Offenders and Health Care
Linking released inmates to health care, By Michael Ollove, June 11, 2015, Stateline: “Joe Calderon faced uncomfortably high odds of dying after his release from a California prison in 2010. According...
View ArticleLead Poisoning Settlements
How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks, By Terrence McCoy, August 25, 2015, Washington Post: “The letter arrived in April, a mishmash of strange numbers and words. This at first did...
View ArticleFoster Children and Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions – California
California foster care: New laws signed to restrict psychiatric drugs, By Karen de Sá, October 7, 2015, San Jose Mercury News: “Creating sweeping new protections for tens of thousands of California’s...
View ArticlePoverty and Child Development
The toll poverty takes on children’s mental health, By Mary Elizabeth Dallas, January 10, 2017, CBS News: “Growing up in poverty exposes children to greater levels of stress, which can lead to...
View ArticleMedicaid Programs
Montana faces double quandary over Medicaid expansion, By Bobby Caina Calvan (AP), July 17, 2017, Washington Post: “For all the uncertainty over the fate of a health care overhaul in Washington, tens...
View ArticleCommunity Paramedic Program
These house calls save money for EMS, social services, By Robert Mittendorf, September 4, 2017, Bellingham Herald: “Bellingham Fire Capt. Jeff Brubaker carries a pager like any other firefighter, and...
View ArticleRural Mental Health Center – Iowa
Rural mental health center draws plenty of praise, but it’s faltering for lack of money, By Tony Leys, September 8, 2017, Des Moines Register: “An innovative program that provides mental-health help in...
View ArticleMedicaid Spending to School Districts
Medicaid’s little-known benefits for millions of US students, By Anna Gorman and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, March 6, 2018, CNN: “Gerardo Alejandrez used to punch classmates, throw chairs and curse at...
View ArticleState Medicaid Programs – Oklahoma, Maine, Ohio
Oklahoma Medicaid approved for drug pricing experiment, By Ken Miller and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar (AP), July 13, 2018, ABC News: “The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved...
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