Harold Pollack
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Harold Pollack
@haroldpollack.bsky.social
University of Chicago Professor. Posts are my own. Reposts do not imply endorsements. Oh--Pay your credit card off in full every month. That's the best risk-free,-tax-free investment available on Planet Earth.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Probably.
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
No one thing will have a dramatic impact. Specific measures help such as Medicaid expansion and expanded access to effective primary care to provide GLP-1's+other meds to folk who would benefit. And of course improved public health interventions on gun violence, the overdose epidemic, and much else.
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Boo!
August 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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All articles are freely available now, so check them out. There's still time to add them to your fall syllabi!
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Finally there are two book reviews that are especially timely: Ann Keller's review of Pamuk's "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" and Robert Ostergard's review of Dahl's "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough"
August 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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In the Tracking Health Reform section, Gusmano and Thompson analyze the Biden administration's efforts to minimize losses of Medicaid enrollment during the "great unwinding". read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Medicaid and the Great Unwinding: The Administrative Presidency Meets Federalism | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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August 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Last, Hemauer and Warner examine the dynamics of public support for school-based mental health services, an increasingly critical point of access. They offer recommendations for policymakers and local school administrators based on the public opinion findings. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Analyzing Public Support for School-Based Mental Health Services
Abstract. Context: Public schools play a central role in addressing the mental health crisis among American youth, but most schools are limited in the services they provide. As of 2019, 44% of adminis...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Next, Sprague et al. also examine state policy, looking at variation across state-level paid leave policies to assess inequities in access and coverage of these policies in the absence of a federal policy. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Paid Leave for Personal and Family Illness: Impacts of State Policy Design on Coverage and Access by Race, Gender, and Education Level | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Pr...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The next article, by Erickson and Meyer-Gutbrod, examines the interactions between news attention to opioids, overdose rates, and state-level political attention to opioids mortality. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
It’s Only a Crisis if It’s Fit to Print: Examining the Relationship Between Overdose Rates, News Coverage, and the Presence of the Opioid Crisis in State Legislative Campaigns | Journal of Health Poli...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The first article by Gudiksen et al. is a qualitative study examining employers' and insurers' perspectives about hospital consolidation. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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August 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM