Michael K. Gusmano
Research Scholar at The Hastings Center.
Posts by Michael K. Gusmano
- Bioethics Forum Essay
Ethics and Evidence in the Search for a Vaccine and Treatments for Covid-19
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn the rush to find a Covid-19 vaccine and one or more drugs to treat the deadly disease, concerns are being raised that ethical standards for conducting human clinical trials and the evidentiary standards for determining whether interventions are safe and effective, might be loosened.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Health Reform and Competing Visions of Justice
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOn May 4, 2017, just over one month after abandoning a previous version of the bill, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by a 217-213 margin (with one abstention) to adopt the American Health Care Act (AHCA). During the coming weeks and months, most of the political commentary will focus on the s...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
New Homeland Security Rules and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOn February 21, the Department of Homeland Security released new policies prioritizing deportation of undocumented immigrants. Will this policy shift affect health care access for this population of 11 million? Two public health studies from Arizona suggest that immigration crackdowns change health-s...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants under the Trump Administration
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayHealth care access is local; creating, financing, expanding, or restricting health care access for a low-income population involves local, state, and federal policies. During the Obama administration, health insurance for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States remained...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Challenge of High Drug Prices in the U.S.
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayDrug spending in the United States increased more than 12 percent in 2014 and is projected to rise faster than overall health care spending over the next 10 years. Between 2007 and 2016, the price of a pair of epinephrine autoinjector EpiPens, used to counter life-threatening allergic reactions, rose...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Supreme Court Decision in King v Burwell: Backstory and Next Steps
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) relies on three primary strategies for expanding health insurance coverage. First, it regulates the insurance market to prevent practices that made it difficult or impossible for sick people to purchase insurance. Second, it expands Medicaid dram...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Why Health Plan Cancellations Do Not Mean Failure for ACA
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOn November 14, President Obama announced that he would delay by one year the implementation of requirements imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(ACA) that would have led to the cancellation of some low cost health insurance plans. The president felt compelled to do this becau...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
“Undocumented Doctors” and the Health of the Dreamers
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine’s recent announcement that it would accept applications from Dreamers – young undocumented immigrants eligible for Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA)status – is an innovative and welcome response to the promise implicit in DACA....Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Administration Reveals Lack of CLASS
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe demise of the CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Support) Act is the calamitous result of ideological warfare and political cowardice. It would have provided a modest benefit – a basic guaranteed lifetime benefit of at least $50 a day in the event of illness or disability to be use...Read the Post
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Hastings Center Scholar on How Some Countries Control Health Spending
Read the PostHastings Center NewsAlthough the U.S. has the highest health care prices in the world, the specific mechanisms commonly used by other countries to set and update prices are often overlooked, with a tendency to favor strategies such as reducing the use of fee-for-service reimbursement. Many U.S. health policymakers reco...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
In the Media: The Hastings Center Responds to Covid-19
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The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants
Read the PostIn the MediaHastings Center scholar Michael Gusmano, codirector of the Center's Undocumented Patients project, told The Nation that when he started looking into access to care for undocumented immigrants in the U.S. he found the situation for those with kidney disease to be the most dire.Read the Post - Hastings Center News
New York City Initiative to Cover the Uninsured Reflects Hastings Research, Recommendations
Read the PostHastings Center NewsOn May 7, New York City officials unveiled details of NYC Care, a new program in the nation’s largest public health system that aims to improve health care access for about 300,000 low-income New Yorkers who are ineligible for insurance because of their immigration status. The initiative, ann...Read the Post Michael K. Gusmano
Read the PostMichael Gusmano investigates health care equity in the U.S. and other countries. His research and publications have focused on health policy, aging, and comparative welfare state analysis. He is the codirector of the World Cities Project, the first effort to compare the performance of health, social,...Read the Post
