Rethinking the RUC
For more than two decades, Medicare has relied far too heavily on recommendations submitted by the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee.
Medicare Extra for All
Conservatives Are Using the Courts to Attack Health Care for All Americans
Provider Consolidation Drives Up Health Care Costs
Public Policies Promoting Healthy Eating and Exercise
How States Are Combating Federal ACA Sabotage
How Your Tax Dollars Are Subsidizing Drug Companies
Millions of Americans are seeing the cost of their medications go up, but drug companies are getting two bites out of our pocketbook.
American Indian and Alaska Native Maternal and Infant Mortality: Challenges and Opportunities
American Indian and Alaska Native women face high rates of maternal and infant mortality.
The New Supreme Court Vacancy Could Put the Affordable Care Act at Risk
If a Texas lawsuit against the ACA reaches the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement could rule on the future of health care for millions of Americans.
How the Latest ACA Repeal Plan Would Harm Women
The newest ACA repeal plan would gut protections and raise prices for health care coverage for women and girls.
Moving Backward
New estimates show that recent efforts to eliminate pre-existing condition protections could leave millions of women and girls at risk of being charged more or denied coverage for individual insurance.
Graham-Cassidy 2.0
The new plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act would have the same devastating results as earlier bills.
Responses to the Opioid Crisis Must Account for People Who Experience Chronic Pain
As the United States continues to address the opioid epidemic, the needs of people who live with chronic pain cannot fall by the wayside.
Limiting Abortion Access Contributes to Poor Maternal Health Outcomes
Abortion restrictions and threats to access to comprehensive reproductive health care could be contributing toward the maternal mortality crisis in the United States.
Rate Filings Make Clear that ACA Sabotage Is Driving Up Premiums
The pattern is clear: Health insurers are raising premiums in 2019, and the efforts of the Trump administration and its allies to sabotage the ACA are to blame.
State Policies to Address Prescription Drug Prices
States are working to bring down drug prices by improving price transparency, increasing negotiating power, and cracking down on price gouging.
State-by-State Estimated Premium Increases due to Individual Mandate Repeal and Short-Term Plan Rule
Marketplace sabotage is projected to increase 2019 benchmark marketplace premiums by $1,013 on average.
Blueprint for the 21st Century
CAP’s Jobs Blueprint addresses the wage stagnation and employment challenges facing working class Americans and communities left behind by investing in millions of new jobs nationwide to meet some of our nation’s most pressing economic and social needs and creating a job guarantee in the hardest-hit areas.
Bold Ideas for State Action
Americans are ready for states—the laboratories of democracy—to offer a new progressive vision for shared prosperity. This report presents a menu of state policy priorities to help people secure good jobs and good wages and to support strong and healthy communities in which all people are treated fairly and equitably.
The Environment That Racism Built
Racism in the United States is killing black mothers and babies—here’s why where they live, learn, work, and play matters.