The High Price of Hospital Care
The hospital industry is profiting from soaring rates charged to privately insured patients.
Medicare Extra for All
This proposal guarantees the right of all Americans to enroll in the same high-quality plan modeled after the Medicare program.
State Options for Making Wise Investments in the Direct Care Workforce
Excess Administrative Costs Burden the U.S. Health Care System
Comprehensive Reform to Lower Prescription Drug Prices
Meaningful Protection From Surprise Medical Bills
The Simple Solution To Lower Drug Prices for All Americans
Congress must deliver legislation that meets the scale of the problem.
Children’s Health Care Access Would Improve Under Universal Coverage Plans
Universal coverage plans, including CAP’s Medicare Extra for All proposal, would improve health care access for children and their families.
Rhetoric vs. Reality: Setting the Record Straight on Medication Abortion
Medication abortion is an important tool to expand access to abortion care and protect reproductive autonomy.
CAP Ideas 2019: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Protecting Gains in Health Care
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries speaks at the 2019 CAP Ideas Conference about the new House’s agenda to lower prescription drug costs and fight against attempts to take away health care coverage.
Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
This report provides a comprehensive policy framework to eliminate racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality.
Efforts to Address Gun Violence Should Not Include Increased Surveillance
Instead of protecting the rights of people with mental health disabilities, lawmakers are using the growing urgency around gun violence as a pretext to expand surveillance and criminalization.
Get the Lead Out
A new initiative will bring 21st-century approaches to environmental monitoring and public health.
Crisis Management: An Immigration Update and Tackling Opioids with James Hamblin
In this week's episode, CAP immigration expert Phil Wolgin discusses the so-called crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and James Hamblin joins us for his perspective on the opioid epidemic.
Conservatives Are Using the Courts to Attack Health Care for All Americans
Overturning the Affordable Care Act would negatively affect Medicare, Medicaid, employer coverage, and individual coverage.
Provider Consolidation Drives Up Health Care Costs
Americans would benefit from stronger antitrust enforcement, more competition, and fairer prices in the markets for hospital and physician services.
Public Policies Promoting Healthy Eating and Exercise
Implementing public policies to reduce obesity may help prevent chronic disease and increase life expectancy, particularly for low-income individuals.
Expanding Medicaid in All States Would Save 14,000 Lives Per Year
In addition to saving lives, expanding Medicaid would have wide-ranging benefits for residents of the 17 nonexpansion states—benefits that go far beyond boosting health insurance coverage and improving access to care.
These Conservative State Officials’ Lawsuits Attacking Federal Protections Harm Their Fellow Residents
Some state officials are using litigation in an attempt to undermine people’s wages, well-being, and access to health care—and the Trump administration is on their side.
4 Ways to Improve Access to Mental Health Services in Asian American Communities
More than 7 million Asian Americans reported poor mental health status in 2017, but too many face systemic barriers to treatment.