Publications

As a state with a well-educated and high-income population, we should expect New Jersey to have a high-performing healthcare delivery system. In some ways we do. Our average life expectancy is high and we have a lower-than-average uninsured rate (although it is expected to increase substantially under the 2025 reconciliation act and Trump administration policy). […]

Hospital consolidation is drawing more and more attention from healthcare scholars, policymakers, and the media. This consolidation includes hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the growth of large, economically powerful hospital networks. Emerging evidence about consolidation raises multiple concerns about diminished healthcare access and health outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable populations. Hospital consolidation enhances […]

The recent 43-day federal government shutdown was driven most prominently by disagreements over healthcare affordability. The immediate impasse centered on expiring pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Health Insurance Exchanges. Without these enhanced subsidies, consumers in New Jersey and nationwide face a more than doubling of their insurance premiums, with […]

In 1992, political strategist James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid!” in reference to the messaging needed to get Bill Clinton elected. Carville’s admonition applied just as much to this year’s state and local elections. There is broad consensus that Mikie Sherrill and other Democrats swept the polls because they centered their campaigns on […]