Advocacy is the act of educating others on a specific cause or issue. It allows constituents to make their voices heard on issues of importance, open the channels of communication with policymakers, and potentially influence opinions.
School Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of students who depend on school health services to learn and thrive. Over the years, school Medicaid has expanded to reach more children. Yet despite this growth, school Medicaid programs continue to face persistent challenges including administrative burdens and funding uncertainties.
America’s children are getting sicker, with chronic and mental health conditions on the rise, trends worsened by the pandemic and felt most by underserved communities. Schools have become critical hubs for care, supported in part by Medicaid. In this three-part series, we’ll explore school Medicaid’s role and what’s at stake as policy changes, including H.R.1, threaten its future.
AcademyHealth’s new resource offers a clear picture of the collective impact of dismantling the only federal agency focused on health services research.
For decades, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has funded research that helps make health care safer, more effective, and more affordable. Now, after a year of staffing cuts, funding delays, and unprecedented disruption, the agency’s ability to carry out that mission is rapidly unraveling.
Researchers across the country are receiving notices that AHRQ is ending funding for ongoing projects. In the latest Situation Report, AcademyHealth examines what we know so far, why it matters, and how these cancellations could affect the future of health services research.
Today, AcademyHealth submitted formal comments calling for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed OMB rule that would fundamentally change how the federal government awards and manages grants.
The evidence infrastructure that policymakers, clinicians, and patients depend on took decades to build. A proposed OMB rule, open for public comment until July 13, would dismantle it and call it accountability.
In an unprecedented move raising urgent concerns about the future of preventive care in the United States, the leadership of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has been removed, threatening the independent, evidence-based process that ensures millions of Americans can access life-saving screenings and services at no cost.
This month’s "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on congressional appropriations, the USPSTF possibly thawing, vaccine studies being pulled from CDC, and more.
Despite having a $345 million budget, the nation’s only agency dedicated to improving how health care actually works has effectively stopped functioning. In new testimony to Congress, AcademyHealth President and CEO Aaron Carroll warns that the crisis at AHRQ is already shutting down research, stalling patient safety improvements, and putting future progress at risk.
