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By Michael Booth It came sometime after the “You lie!” outburst and the false claims of “death panels,” but before two potentially fatal US Supreme Court decisions and sixty-seven consecutive votes to repeal in the US House of Representatives. In hindsight, President Obama’s signing of…

This evaluation of the Campaign for Better Care — an Atlantic-funded effort to include the voices and perspectives of vulnerable populations in health care so that it reflected their needs — found that although the foundation provided needed organizational support, resources are still limited in carrying…

By Marian Wright EdelmanPresident, Children's Defense FundSince our founding almost forty years ago, the Children’s Defense Fund has fought to ensure that all children in America receive the healthy start they need and deserve. Next week marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the…

By Jeffrey Brenner, M.D. [caption id="attachment_77070" align="alignleft" width="185"] Jeffrey Brenner, M.D., Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Photo: McKnight's Long-Term Care News[/caption] I'm a family physician working in Camden, NJ — one of America's poorest cities. For the last 13 years, I've…

We wake up this morning surrounded by a new political world.The House vote approving health care reform was without doubt the most significant congressional vote in the last four decades. That's because it completely transformed the American political landscape. It certainly changed America's health care…

Vivien Labaton, Director of Strategic Programme Initiatives at The Atlantic Philanthropies, reflects on the recent passage of financial reform in the United States and the activities of Atlantic grantees to help bring it about.   The recent passage of the financial reform law—the Dodd-Frank Wall…

The healthcare reform proposals of presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama differ in how many people would be covered and their potential impact on the uninsured, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund finds. The report, The 2008 Presidential Candidates' Health Reform Proposals: Choices…

Original Source By MILT FREUDENHEIM Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. The idea is that by paying family physicians, internists and pediatricians to devote…

This case study describes how Atlantic partnered with impact investing specialists at Arabella Advisors to help Vital Healthcare Capital (V-Cap), a community development financial institution. Atlantic’s grant enabled V-Cap to expand its capacity to support health care providers that serve low-income and vulnerable communities in the United…

The National Women's Law Center and PHI are Atlantic grantees. The National Women’s Law Center has kicked off a campaign to educate women about gender inequities in health care coverage. “Being a Woman is Not a Pre-Existing Condition” was launched on October 20 to mobilize…