See also @jacobhacker.bsky.social & Paul Pierson's 2018 JHPPL article "The Dog That Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare State." In these unprecedented times, offers needed context on health policy retrenchment read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

That's a wrap on our 50th anniversary issue! Hope we've piqued your curiosity enough that you'll give this superb issue a read, and give us a follow to stay apprised of ongoing developments!

@thcallaghan.bsky.social & @mattmotta.bsky.social evaluate the challenge that polarization poses for our health and importantly, they propose a three-pronged path for better understanding and overcoming polarization in health and medicine. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

@lizhamel.bsky.social Alex Montero & @mollybrodie.bsky.social assess the public health threat of misinformation, drawing on over 30 years of polling to evaluate how the public accesses, evaluates & uses health information (and disinformation) and shifts over time. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

@joefigs.bsky.social Ciara Duggan & Karen Joynt Maddox examine the challenges and opportunities in value-based payment within Medicare. They evaluate 4 main value-based care paradigms & argue there's been mixed success in improving wrt cost and quality. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

@rachelwerner.bsky.social Allison Hoffman & R. Tamara Konetzka assess the changing landscape of long-term care delivery, identifying the limitations of reliance on Medicare & Medicaid, with unpaid caregivers often filling in the gaps--> fragmentation, inadequacy. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

@rachelsachs.bsky.social & Allison Hoffman examine the government's changing role in health law, with expanding role of the private sector in public insurance & enactment of ACA. They argue that the government's regulatory power may be constrained moving forward. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Brendan Saloner, Sachini Bandara & Alene Kennedy-Hendricks examine the last 50 years of illicit drug policy. Since the inception of the "war on drugs," they observe most drug policy remains a patchwork that hasn't changed much despite changing conditions. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Caitlin McMurtry examines politics surrounding gun control given landmark SCOTUS rulings as well as shifts in the public's distrust of government, institutions, and one another. This distrust implicates the impact of framing gun violence as a public health problem read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Arturo Bustamante, Alexandra Rivera-Gonzales, Clara Barajas, Maria-Elena Young & Alexander Ortega examine shifting policy landscapes of health ins for non-citizens, esp since implementation of the PRWORA. They trace non-citizens' health ins enrollment from 2008-23 read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Marian Jarlenski examines the upending of abortion politics and where to go from here. With Dobbs v. Jackson, we saw profound shifts in jurisprudence as well as the implementation of state abortion laws, highlighting the important role of health federalism. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Kevin Nguyen, Leesh Menard, @prof-heidiallen.bsky.social & Gilbert Gonzales examine the changing landscape of LGBTQ health politics/policy, including developments in LGBTQ health data collection & research, and the role of developments like marriage equality & ACA read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

@oberlanderunc.bsky.social writes not just on persistence of US health care problems like cost, fragmentation, & inequity, but how these enduring features mask broader shifts in health coverage expansion & privatization in public programs, & what these shifts mean read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

@sarahgollust.bsky.social Yujin Kim, Paul Espinoza Kissell & @efranklinfowler.bsky.social employ large-scale computational text tools to analyze the breadth of what JHPPL has published over the years (most common: health care access & insurance). read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Jonathan Leider, Mac McCullough, Jason Orr & Beth Resnick analyze recent reductions in public health funding and these cuts' disproportionate impact on rural and low-resource communities. While some communities will be able to offset losses, many will not. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Sam Halabi, Lawrence Gostin, Kayla Wontumi, John Kraemer & Anjola Tega examines politicization of science & health institutions, observing weakening of regulation and dissemination of false & misleading information about scientific knowledge, eroding credibility. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Mohammad Abba-Aji & Sandro Galea apply the social determinants of health framework to examine the many non-health agency cuts being implemented & affecting health, highlighting systemic threats to the broader policy infrastructure that promotes population health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...