Mark Kleiman, 1951–2019
Harold Pollack
Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration and Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago and a nonresident Fellow of the Century Foundation.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Health-Care Reform’s Disability Blind Spot
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. Imagine that you attend a country music concert or a quiet Texas church service, or are simply stopped at a local red […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
What We Can Do about Gun Violence
Incremental changes to existing gun laws could help deter mass shootings and gun homicides.Â
Posted inWorking in America
We Don’t Need ‘Modern Asylums’
We need to make deinstitutionalization work for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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The Real Problem with the Independent Payment Advisory Board
When I was a graduate student, abandoned houses were a real problem in my community. These eyesores blighted the neighborhood. In many cases, the city needed to quickly condemn these properties to address public safety concerns. Aldermen loudly complained about the cumbersome administrative process which produced a long waiting list of abandoned properties. I asked […]
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Barbour on Medicaid
“Some politicians act like they love our constituents more than we do.” So says Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. But it’s hard to imagine “love for his constituents” being the first phrase that comes to mind when people think of Barbour, whose arguments in support of charging Medicaid recipients pharmaceutical co-payments included the nugget: “We have […]
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Put to the Test
Genetic screening is more accessible than ever, and health-care providers are scrambling to catch up.
Posted inSpecial Report
The Cost of Delayed Reform
The temporary federal high-risk pools won’t reach most of the medically uninsured.
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Neglecting the Swine Flu Frontlines
Stimulus spending couldn’t have hit the ground fast enough to avert the current swine flu crisis. But moderate senators — including new Democrat Arlen Specter — still have a lot to answer for in terms of their lack of support for local public-health funding.
